Russia - Moscow - Around Town
Places in Moscow: Sokolniki Park, Bolshoi Theatre, Lubyanka, Church of All Saints na Kulichkakh, Romanov Palace, Old English Court, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Monument, Monuments to the Conquerors of Space, Old Arbat Street, Alexander Garden, Manege, Patriarch's Ponds, Cafe Margarita, Gorky Park, Tretyakov Gallery, Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent (no. 1097 on UNESCO's World Heritage List), Yaroslavsky Terminal
Audio (1): Schwartzmeer Don Kosacken (Moskauer Nächte).
Audio (2): Cafe Margarita house band
Audio (3): Choir of St Nicholas Church in Tolmachi at the State Tretyakov Gallery (O Come, Let Us Worship) (Obikhod)
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. Moscow is the capital of the Russian Federation
Moscow is the capital of the Russian Federation, a city of Federal importance, the administrative center of the Central Federal district and the center of the Moscow region, which is not part of it. The largest city in Russia, the most populous city in Europe, is among the top ten cities in the world in terms of population.
The historical capital Of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Russian Kingdom, Russian Empire (in 1728-1730), Soviet Russia and the USSR. Hero city.
Located on the Moscow river in the center of the East European plain, between the Oka and Volga, approximately at the same latitude as the cities: Tynda, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Copenhagen, Glasgow.
Moscow is an important tourist center of Russia; the Moscow Kremlin, Red square, Novodevichy convent and the Church of the ascension in Kolomenskoye are included in the UNESCO world heritage list. It is also an important transport hub. The city is served by 5 airports, 9 railway stations, 3 river ports (there is a river connection with the seas of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans). Since 1935 the Moscow metro has been operating.
List of the main attractions of Moscow:
- Kremlin;
- Red square, St. Basil's Cathedral, Gum building and Historical Museum;
- Tverskaya and Stary Arbat streets;
- Cathedral Of Christ The Saviour;
- Moscow Monasteries: Novodevichy, Donskoy, Novospassky;
- Estates: Tsaritsyno, Kuskovo, Arkhangelsk, Ostankino;
- Kolomenskoye Museum-reserve, Church of the ascension;
- Moscow museums: the Tretyakov gallery, the Museum. Pushkin, - - Historical Museum, space Museum;
- Moscow zoo, Planetarium, Big Moscow circus, Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard;
- Bolshoi theatre;
- Poklonnaya hill and victory Park, Gorky Park, exhibition center and the monument worker and kolkhoz woman»;
- Stalin's high-rise buildings: the main building of Moscow state University, the foreign Ministry building, the house on Kotelnicheskaya embankment, the hotel Ukraine, hotel Leningrad»;
- The observation deck on Vorobievy the mountains, Ostankino tower;
- Moscow metro. Stations
T-34 tank, Gdańsk, Pomeranian, Poland, Europe
The T-34 was a Soviet medium tank which had a profound and lasting effect on the fields of tank tactics and design. First fielded in 1940, it has often been described as the most effective, efficient, and influential tank design of World War II. At its introduction, the T-34 possessed the best balance of firepower, mobility, protection, and ruggedness of any tank. Its 76.2 mm (3 in) high-velocity gun was the best tank gun in the world at that time; its heavy sloped armour was difficult to penetrate by most contemporary anti-tank weapons, and furthermore it was very agile. Though its armour and armament were surpassed later in the war, when they first encountered it in battle in 1941 German tank generals von Kleist and Guderian called it the deadliest tank in the world. The T-34 was the mainstay of Soviet armoured forces throughout World War II. The design and construction of the tank were continuously refined during the war to enhance effectiveness and decrease costs, allowing steadily greater numbers of T-34s to be fielded despite heavy losses. It was the most-produced tank of the war, and the second most-produced tank of all time, after its successor, the T-54/55 series. By the end of the war in 1945 the T-34 had replaced many light and heavy tanks in Red Army service. It accounted for the majority of Soviet tank production, and following the war it was widely exported. Its evolutionary development led directly to the T-54/55 series of tanks, built until 1981 and still operational as of 2013 and which itself led to the T-62, T-72, and T-90 tanks which, along with several Chinese tanks based on the T-55, form the backbone of many armies even today. In 1996, T-34 variants were still in service in at least 27 countries. Subassemblies for the T-34 originated at several plants: Kharkiv Diesel Factory N.75 supplied the model V-2-34 engine, Leningrad Kirovsky Factory (formerly the Putilov works) made the original L-11 gun, and the Dinamo Factory in Moscow produced electrical components. Tanks were initially built at KhPZ N.183, in early 1941 at the Stalingrad Tractor Factory (STZ), and starting in July at Krasnoye Sormovo Factory N.112 in Gorky. After Germany's surprise invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), the Wehrmacht's rapid advances forced the evacuation of Soviet tank factories to the Ural Mountains, an undertaking of immense scale and haste that presented enormous logistic difficulties and was extremely punishing to the workers involved. Alexander Morozov personally supervised the evacuation of all skilled engineers and laborers, machinery, and stock from KhPZ to re-establish the factory at the site of the Dzherzhinski Ural Railcar Factory in Nizhny Tagil, renamed Stalin Ural Tank Factory N.183. The Kirovsky Factory, evacuated just weeks before the Germans surrounded Leningrad, moved with the Kharkiv Diesel Factory to the Stalin Tractor Factory in Chelyabinsk, soon to be nicknamed Tankograd (Tank City). The workers and machinery from Leningrad's Voroshilov Tank Factory N.174 were incorporated into the Ural Factory and the new Omsk Factory N.174. The Ordzhonikidze Ural Heavy Machine Tool Works (UZTM) in Sverdlovsk absorbed workers and machines from several small machine shops in the path of German forces.
While these factories were being rapidly relocated, the industrial complex surrounding the Dzherzhinski Tractor Factory in Stalingrad continued to work double shifts throughout the period of withdrawal (September 1941 to September 1942) to make up for production lost, and produced 40% of all T-34s during the period. As the factory became surrounded by heavy fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, the situation there grew desperate: manufacturing innovations were necessitated by material shortages, and stories persist of unpainted T-34 tanks driven out of the factory directly to the battlefields around it. Stalingrad kept up production until September 1942. Soviet designers were aware of certain design deficiencies in the tank, but most of the desired remedies would have slowed tank production and so were not implemented: the only changes allowed on the production lines through to 1944 were to make production simpler and cheaper. New methods were developed for automated welding and hardening the armour plate, including innovations by Prof. Evgeny Paton. The design of the 76.2 mm F-34 gun Model 1941 was reduced from an initial 861 parts to 614. A somewhat less cramped hexagonal turret was introduced in 1942; because it used flat armour plates rather than curved ones, it was actually faster to produce. Limited rubber supplies led to the adoption of steel-rimmed road wheels, and a new clutch was added to an improved five-speed transmission and engine, improving reliability. Over two years, the unit production cost of the T-34 was reduced from 269,500 rubles in 1941, to 193,000, and then to 135,000.
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