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Sheremetyevsky
Sheremetyevsky (), also known as Sheremetyevo (), Sheremetyevka () is currently (since 2003) a microdistrict of the city of Dolgoprudny in the Moscow Oblast, located near the Sheremetyevskaya railway station of the Savyolovsky line of the Moscow Railway. Sheremetyevo International Airport takes its name from this village, although the village is located several kilometers to the east of the airport. History The settlement of Sheremetyevsky arose around 1901 as a dachas area near the Sheremetyevskaya railway station on forest lands belonging to Count Sergey Sheremetev. Until 1934, the settlement of Sheremetyevsky consisted of seven dachas, "once owned by the Mikheyevs, Vasilyevs and others". According to the All-Union Population Census of 1926, there were 16 households in the settlement of Sheremetyevsky (15 of which were peasant households), in which 74 people lived (37 men and 37 women). The settlement began to develop intensively in 1934, when as a result of the construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheremetyevskaya Railway Station
Sheremetyevskaya () is a railway station of the Savyolovsky line of the Moscow Railway in the microdistrict Sheremetyevsky of the city of Dolgoprudny, Moscow Oblast. The station is part of the line D1 "Belorussko-Savelovsky" of the Moscow Central Diameters. History The station was opened in 1901 and named after the initiator of its opening, Count Sergey Sheremetev. The owner of the forest lands through which the tracks of the Savyolovsky line of the Moscow Railway were laid in 1900, planned to derive income from leasing his land plots for dacha construction in the settlement that developed around. Travel time from Savyolovsky station is 35 minutes and is part of the Moscow Central Diameters, line MCD-1. The station consists of two side platforms connected by a deck. To the west of the platform there is a non-electrified access road from Lobnya station to the Paveltsevskaya oil depot and is used only for freight traffic. Sheremetyevo International Airport Sheremetyev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheremetyevo International Airport
Sheremetyevo International Airport (, , Internal code: ШРМ) is one of four international airports that serve the city of Moscow. It is the busiest airport in Russia and the post-Soviet states, as well as the ninth-busiest airport in Europe. Originally built as a military airbase, Sheremetyevo was converted into a civilian airport in 1959. The airport was originally named after a nearby village, and a 2019 contest extended the name to include the name of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The airport comprises six terminals: four international terminals (one under construction), one domestic terminal, and one private aviation terminal. It is located northwest of central Moscow, between the towns of Lobnya and Khimki in Moscow Oblast. In 2019, the airport handled about 49.9 million passengers. Sheremetyevo serves as the main hub for Russian flag carrier Aeroflot as well as its subsidiaries Rossiya Airlines and Pobeda, for Nordwind Airlines and its subsidiary Ikar, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Glazunov
Vasily Afanasyevich Glazunov (Russian: Василий Афанасьевич Глазунов; – 27 June 1967) was a Soviet lieutenant general, who was the first commander of the Soviet airborne forces (VDV). He was twice awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. Early life Vasily Afanasyevich Glazunov was born on 1 January 1896 in Varvarovka village, Serdobsky Uyezd, Saratov Governorate in the Russian Empire, to a family of peasants. In 1908, he graduated from third grade. Glazunov worked for the landowners until 1914. World War I In August 1915, Glazunov joined the Imperial Russian Army and became a private in the 135th Reserve Battalion in Balashov. In September, he was transferred to the 195th Infantry Regiment in Baranovichi. He fought in battles on the Southwestern Front. Glazunov became sick with Typhoid fever in December and was sent to the hospital. In February 1916, he became a squad leader in the 198th Alexander Nevsky Infantry Regiment, fighting on the South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and is the list of federal subjects of Russia by population, second most populous federal subject. The oblast has no official administrative center; its public authorities are located in Moscow and Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Krasnogorsk (the Moscow Oblast Duma and the local government), and also across other locations in the oblast.According to Article 24 of the Charter of Moscow Oblast, the government bodies of the oblast are located in the city of Moscow and throughout the territory of Moscow Oblast. However, Moscow is not named the official administrative center of the oblast. Located in European Russia between latitudes 54th parallel north, 54° and 57th parallel north, 57° N and longitudes 35th meridian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Patriotic War
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies of World War II, Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Polish Armed Forces in the East, Poland. It encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltic states, Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans), and lasted from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. Of the estimated World War II casualties, 70–85 million deaths attributed to World War II, around 30 million occurred on the Eastern Front, including 9 million children. The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome in the European theatre of World War II, European theatre of operations in World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Axis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mytishchinsky District
Mytishchinsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #198/2004-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast just north of the federal city of Moscow. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the city of Mytishchi Mytishchi ( rus, Мыти́щи, p=mɨˈtʲiɕːɪ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Mytishchinsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, which lies 19 km northeast of Russia's capital Moscow o .... As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 203,393, with the population of Mytishchi accounting for 85.1% of that number. Notable residents * Nina Doroshina (1934—2018), actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985) References Notes Sources * * * {{Use mdy dates, date=March 2013 Districts of Moscow Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efim Shchadenko
Yefim Afanasievich Shchadenko (; 27 September O.S. 15 September">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 15 September1885 – 6 September 1951) was a Soviet colonel general who served as Deputy People's Commissar of Defence, People's Commissar of Defense during the early years of World War II. Early life and education Shchadenko was born in to a Ukrainian working-class family and received primary education. He then worked as a tailor. Revolutionary activities From 1904 he was active in the underground social democratic movement and joined the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in the same year. He was an active participant in the 1905 Russian Revolution in the Donbass and after the defeat of the revolution he went in to hiding in the Caucasus. He later moved to Vladikavkaz and worked as a tailor while simultaneously being involved in underground Bolshevik circles. In the tailor shops, he also organiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stele
A stele ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stelas ( ). is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or both. These may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted. Stelae were created for many reasons. Grave stelae were used for funerary or commemorative purposes. Stelae as slabs of stone would also be used as ancient Greek and Roman government notices or as boundary markers to mark borders or property lines. Stelae were occasionally erected as memorials to battles. For example, along with other memorials, there are more than half-a-dozen steles erected on the battlefield of Waterloo at the locations of notable actions by participants in battle. A traditional Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army. In February 1946, the Red Army (which embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces alongside the Soviet Navy) was renamed the "Soviet Army". Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union it was split between the post-Soviet states, with its bulk becoming the Russian Ground Forces, commonly considered to be the successor of the Soviet Army. The Red Army provided the largest land warfare, ground force in the Allies of World War II, Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its Soviet invasion of Manchuria, invasion of Manchuria assisted the un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of People's Commissars Of The Soviet Union
The Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was the highest collegial body of executive and administrative authority of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1946. As the government of the Soviet Union, the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union and the People's Commissariats led by it played a key role in such significant events for the country and society as the economic recovery after the Civil War, the New Economic Policy, agricultural collectivization, electrification, industrialization, five-year plans for the development of national economy, censorship, the fight against religion, repression and political persecution, the Gulag, the deportation of peoples, the annexation of the Baltic States and other territories by the Soviet Union, the organization of the partisan movement, the organization of industrial production in the rear during the Great Patriotic War. In 1946, it was transformed into the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Ring Of The Moscow Railway
The Little Ring of the Moscow Railways (MK MZD, ), is a orbital heavy rail, railway in Moscow, Russia. Built between 1902 and 1908 as ''MOZD'' (''Moscow Encircle Railway'', , or just ''Encircle Line'', ) for mixed use railway traffic, after 1934 the railway was only used for cargo traffic. During the 2010s, the railway was converted to be used for commuter rail service and allows free transfers with the Moscow Metro; the passenger service on Moscow Ring Railway started on September 10, 2016, as the Moscow Central Circle. The line is operated by Russian Railways' Moscow Railway, Moscow subsidiary. History In 1800, the Kamer-Kollezhsky Val, the third historical ring of Moscow (after Boulevard Ring and Garden Ring), became the legal outer border of Moscow. In 1879, some additional areas, including Sokolniki District, Sokolniki, were annexed to the city; however, at the time Moscow was encircled by a number of further settlements forming an urban agglomeration. Transport connec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
