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Tarakaniv Fortress
Tarakaniv Fort (), also known as Dubno fort () is a 19th-century fortress located next to Tarakaniv village in the Dubno Raion of Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. It was commissioned and built by Alexander II of the Russian Empire and can be found next to Lviv-Kyiv Highway M06 on the right bank of the Ikva river. The fortress could accommodate up to 800 people. History Building After the Third Partition of Poland in the end of the 18th century (1795), Russian and Austrian empires started to share a common border. In order to secure the western frontiers of the newly annexed lands, the government under the rule of Alexander II decided to build a fortress next to a railroad going from Kyiv to Lviv, not far from the town of Dubno. The construction, however, was postponed for about 50 years due to the French invasion of Russia and Crimean War. The building of hillforts and provisional earthworks of the fortress commenced in the 1860s under supervision of Crimean War (1853) veteran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortress
A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ("strong") and ("to make"). From very early history to modern times, defensive walls have often been necessary for cities to survive in an ever-changing world of invasion and conquest. Some settlements in the Indus Valley Civilization were the first small cities to be fortified. In ancient Greece, large cyclopean stone walls fitted without mortar had been built in Mycenaean Greece, such as the ancient site of Mycenae. A Greek '' phrourion'' was a fortified collection of buildings used as a military garrison, and is the equivalent of the Roman castellum or fortress. These constructions mainly served the purpose of a watch tower, to guard certain roads, passes, and borders. Though smaller than a real fortress, they acted as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway M06 (Ukraine)
Highway M06 ( Ukrainian: Автошлях М06) is a Ukrainian international highway ( M-highway) connecting Kyiv to the Hungarian border near Chop, where it continues as Hungarian main road 4 to Záhony and Budapest. General overview The M06 is a major transnational corridor and along with the M03 combines into European route E40. The highway is also part of the Pan-European Transportation corridors III and V as well as the "Europe-Asia" Transportation corridor. It is the second longest route spanning over (see Roads in Ukraine). The M06 connects four major European routes: E40, E50, E85, and E95. History The route from Lemberg via Stryj to the then Austro-Hungarian border belonged until 1918 to the Austrian crown land of Galicia and was called the ''Stryjer Reichsstraße''. Description From Kyiv to Lviv the M06 is part of European route E40, European route E471 from Lviv to Mukachevo, European route E50 from Stryi ( Lviv Region) to Uzhhorod, and European ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwestern Front (Russian Empire)
The Southwestern Front () was an army group of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I as part of the Eastern Front war theater. During the conflict it was responsible for managing operations along a front line that stretched 615 kilometers across Ukraine, starting from what is now southern Belarus to northern Romania. To its left side (south), there was located Romanian Front which was a joint formation of the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Romania. To its right side (north), there was located Northwestern Front which in 1915 split and Western Front was one that covered right flank of the Southwestern Front. The front was facing primarily against Austro-Hungarian Army and in few operations against Imperial German Army. In 1917 the headquarters of the Front was located in Berdychiv and later moved west to Rivne. It was established in August 1914 based on units of the Kiev Military District and the Odessa Military District and lasted throughout the war until the unre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Karbyshev
Dmitry Mikhaylovich Karbyshev (; — 18 February 1945) was a Red Army general, professor of the General Staff Academy (Russia), Soviet General Staff Academy (Doktor nauk, Doctor of Military Sciences), and Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). Biography Early years Karbyshev was born in Omsk to the well-known Siberian Cossacks, Siberian Cossack Starshyna family of Kryashen Tatar origin and spoke both Russian language, Russian and Tatar of Kryashen accent . His father died when he was twelve, and he was raised by his mother. Despite financial difficulties, he graduated from the Siberian Cadet Corps (today Omsk Cadet Corps of Ministry of Defense) in 1898 and went on to attend the Saint-Petersburg Nikolaev Military Engineering College (Uchilishche), from which he graduated in 1900. He was assigned to serve in the 1st East Siberian Sapper Battalion, in charge of battlefield telegraph operations (chief of cable section of a telegraph company), and was stationed in Manchuria. Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
