Posts Tagged ‘Great Patriotic War’

The inhabitants of Kalmykia, mainly women, the elderly and children, worked on the construction of this railway

Kizlyar-Astrakhan Deportation and genocide in Soviet period in Soviet Union

Kizlyar-Astrakhan

The inhabitants of Kalmykia, mainly women, the elderly and children, worked on the construction of this railway. Read the rest of this entry »

Sappers have begun demining an underground artillery warehouse of the Second World War

Military warehouse sapper Dangerous territory 10 hectares Ru

Military warehouse in Republic of Kalmykia

In Kalmykia, sappers have begun demining an underground artillery warehouse.

In Kalmykia, the South Military District’s Engineer and Sapper Team extracted about 200 shells and other explosive objects from underground dugouts. In 1942, a Nazi German rear support point with Read the rest of this entry »

Immortal Regiment

Immortal Regiment Immortal regiment in Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia (part of Russia).

Victory Day!

May, 9 in Elista. Read the rest of this entry »

More than 30 monuments of Great Patriotic War in Kalmykia displayed on the Map of Memory

The idea of the project “Map of Memory” is aiming to enable each student in Russia or each school itself to share photos of local monuments dedicated to the heroes and famous battles of the Great Patriotic War and to provide a comment to them. Eventually, the data is collected in one digital Map Read the rest of this entry »