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Raisa Azarh
Raḯsa Mojséïvna Azárh or Raisa Moyseyevna Azarkh (2 May 1897 – 9 November 1971) was a distinguished physician of the Soviet Union, and also an author, essayist and biographer. She took part in the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War. She alternated as the medical supervisor and a political commissar on the Far Eastern, Ukrainian and Volga Fronts in the period 1918–20. She was responsible for organizing field and hospital facilities in Vyatka, Kyiv, Omsk and Krasnoyarsk. As the Vyatka Special Division commissar, she headed the fight against the Whites in the Kama Valley in 1918. Azarkh was then sent to Ukraine in December 1918. While she performed her medical duties from a rail wagon, she also saw action against the armies of the Ukrainian People's Republic, Nykyfor Hryhoriv and Anton Denikin. She moved again in July 1919 to Siberia and the Far East, where she stayed until the autumn of 1920. Azarkh served as military commissar of the 1st Special Vyatka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toretsk
Toretsk (; ) is an industrial city in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of Toretsk urban hromada. As of January 2022, its population was approximately It has its origins as the hamlet Shcherbynivka, built during the mid-19th century developments in coal mining in the Donbas region. It developed over the following century with the rise of rail transport. Between 1936–2016, the city was named Dzerzhynsk after Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet security service Cheka. The city received its current name in 2016, as a result of decommunization in Ukraine, decommunization laws. Toretsk has seen fighting and shelling during the War in Donbas, in the first phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014, which has depopulated and heavily damaged the infrastructure of the city over the years. On 7 February 2025, during the months-long Battle of Toretsk, part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia claimed it had ful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |