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Thunder Tower of the Smolensk Fortress
Art Gallery at the Smolensk State Museum Reserve
Monument to Aleksandr Tvardovskiy and Vasiliy Tyorkin
Monument Grateful Russia to the Heroes of 1812
S. Konenkov's Sculpture Museum
Cathedral of the Assumption (Uspensky Sobor)
Garden Blone
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Central Park of Culture and Rest Lopatinsky Garden
Smolensk Fortress


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Stavropol is a city in southwestern Russia. The central Stavropol State Museum-Reserve includes exhibitions on archaeology, paleontology and Russian history.

Works at the nearby Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts include religious icons and sculpture. To the west, the Stavropol Botanical Garden has water lilies and tree-lined paths. Vast Pobedy Park, or Victory Park, features rides, plus old planes and tanks.

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Russia: Putin addresses Council for Science and Education

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded “clear aims and measurable performance indicators for science and technology in a meeting with the Council for Science and Education in Moscow, Wednesday.

Speaking with scientists and members of the government, Putin emphasised that Siberia, the Far East and the Arctic should be developed as they have huge industrial potential. Putin also wants to see financing target “key areas, stressing that the role of science in Russia should be one of the most important instruments for society’s development.


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Veliky Novgorod is a city in western Russian, on the Volkhov River. Within Novgorod Kremlin’s red-brick fortress walls is the 5-domed, 11th-century St. Sophia Cathedral.

Nearby, the Millennium of Russia monument erected in 1862, shows historical figures and events. Housed in several buildings, the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve has exhibits from the city’s past, including Russian icon paintings.

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Smolensk (Russian: Смоленск, IPA: [smɐˈlʲɛnsk] (About this soundlisten)); is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, 360 kilometers (220 mi) west-southwest of Moscow. Population: 326,861 (2010 Census); 325,137 (2002 Census);[10] 341,483 (1989 Census)

The walled city in the center of Smolensk (along with the outskirts) was destroyed several times throughout its long history because it was on the invasion routes of the Mongol Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, First French Empire, and Nazi Germany. Today, Smolensk is noted for its electronics, textiles, food processing, and diamond faceting industries.

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MOSCOW TOURIST ATTRACTIONS #2: Amazing Things to Do in Moscow, Russia

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Number 10 - Museum of Cosmonautics
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Operation Bagration (; Russian: Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, (Russian: Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион», Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya Bagration) a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet Union achieved a major victory by destroying the German Army Group Centre and completely rupturing the German front line.
On 23 June 1944, the Red Army attacked Army Group Centre in Byelorussia, with the objective of encircling and destroying its main component armies. By 28 June, the German Fourth Army had been destroyed, along with most of the Third Panzer and Ninth Armies. The Red Army exploited the collapse of the German front line to encircle German formations in the vicinity of Minsk in the Minsk Offensive and destroy them, with Minsk liberated on 4 July. With the end of effective German resistance in Byelorussia, the Soviet offensive continued further to Lithuania, Poland and Romania over the course of July and August.
The Red Army successfully used the Soviet deep battle and maskirovka (deception) strategies for the first time to full extent, albeit with continuing heavy losses. Operation Bagration diverted German mobile reserves to the central sectors, removing them from the Lublin-Brest and Lvov–Sandomierz areas, enabling the Soviets to undertake the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive and Lublin–Brest Offensive. This allowed the Red Army to reach the Vistula river and Warsaw, which in turn put Soviet forces within striking distance of Berlin, conforming to the concept of Soviet deep operations—striking deep into the enemy's strategic depths.

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This fast paced episode of Battlefield chronicles the titanic war in the east, that eventually decided World War II in Europe.

Despite numerous warnings from the Communist spy networks: the Lucy Spy-Ring the Red Orchestra Richard Sorge, and pleadings from Churchill and FDR, through ultra decrypts, Stalin discounted all invasion warnings. Stalin felt that all these alarming reports was actually an attempt to divide agreements between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, by the British and Americans. The Soviet Union shipped supplies ahead of schedule to Nazi Germany. The people of the Soviet Union and Stalin were completely dumbfounded when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.

Three German Army Groups attacked into North, Central and the Southern Soviet Union.

Army Group North (Heeresgruppe Nord) (Generalfeldmarschall von Leeb) objective was the Baltic states, recently invaded by the USSR. The ultimate objective was Leningrad. Army Group Center consisted of 16th (Ernst Busch), 18th (Georg von Küchler) Armies and the 4th Panzer Group (Col. Gen Hoeppner).

Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte) (Generalfeldmarschall von Bock) was comprised of the 4th (Günther von Kluge) and 9th Armies (Strauss), along with 2nd (Guderian) and 3rd (Hoth) Panzer Armies. Army Group Centre was focused on destroying all USSR forces in central Russia. The German forces would encircle several massive pockets in their advance from Poland to Smolensk.

Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) (Generalfeldmarschall von Runstedt) was comprised of 17th (Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel), 11th Army (Eugen Ritter von Schobert) Armies, and the mainly Romanian and Hungarian 6th Army (Walther von Reichenau). The 1st Panzer Group (von Kleist) was the main armored component.

Army Group South and Army Group Centres Panzer Armies advanced south to encircle Soviet Armies around Kiev. Many German officers protested Hitlers decision to destroy armies in the field rather than capture Moscow. After the Soviet defeat at Kiev, Hitler implemented Operation Typhoon. Weather, attrition and supply lines now hindered the German advance. Moscow attacked with reserves from the Far East and saved Moscow (GDH)

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The character of Russia revealed through traditional dress

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A new exhibition in Moscow of traditional national dress is promising to reveal the essence of Russia.
The colourful garments, and rich jewellery that make up the Festive costumes of the Russian people come from as far afield as the shores of the Volga to the snows of Siberia and the Far East.

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This bejewelled headdress could be straight out of a Russian fairytale.
And in a showcase nearby, vividly embroidered dresses invoke the Russian pastoral scene.
These outfits would have been worn by peasant girls on the steppes of central Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries.
They are part of a new exhibition at the Moscow State History Museum - Festive costumes of the Russian people.
The folk costumes originate from communities all over Russia, from Smolensk and the Perm region all the way to Yakutia and the Far East.
According to the State History Museum's director, Alexei Levykin, the collection contains 400,000 items and is the first of its kind in the Russian Federation.
Festive clothing best characterises the culture of a nation, its traditions, and views of beauty. That's why, to answer the question 'what is Russia?' you must see it all – and here you are able to see it in a (broad presentation), Levykin explains.
Much of the national clothing included in the exhibit reflects the ethnicity, region and social status of the bearer.
This brightly coloured warrior headdress and these fur boots from the Nanai community in Russia's Far East, are designed to ward off evil spirits and dark forces of nature.
Russia has a really unique culture. On the one hand, Russian culture is very aggressive in the positive sense of the word, because it's really dynamic – it has an active influence on the other nations that surround it. But aggressive in a positive sense, because it is really sensitive. It is like a sponge that extracts all the best elements, processes them and puts them out again. Maybe this is what has united our country for so many years and today. Because (despite the) different languages, different cultures and different history – we are all generally the same. And that's very visible in the exhibition, says Levykin.
The costumes in the exhibit not only demonstrate a broad variety of craftsmanship, but also the unique materials required for making them, ranging from hemp canvas and linen, to fur and hardened fish skin.
The exhibit's creative director, Olga Gordeeva, believes it's crucially important to preserve Russia's multinationalism, because each culture and community has its own powerful cultural stream.
If we all follow the same type of European costume, which consists of a suit and shirt, we lose a really important source of beauty and national consciousness, Gordeeva says.
The exhibition runs until 3 October, 2016.



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Nikolai Ryzhkov The Last Premier of the Empire / Николай Рыжков Последний премьер империи ENG SUB

This is a 2014 documentary film about Nikolai Ryzhkov, the last Premier of the Soviet Union.
Ryzhkov talks about the hardships he went through during his service as the Prime Minister of the USSR, Chernobyl disaster, Spitak earthquake, Gorbachev's disastrous anti alcohol campaign, collapse of the USSR, how he got betrayed by Gorbachev more than once, the culture complex in Belgorod whose construction he organized. He also tells hilarious anecdotes and tear-jerker stories from those years. First time in English.

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Historian Owen Matthews joins Talks at Google to share the fascinating story of Soviet agent Richard Sorge. Once called the most formidable spy in history by famous author Ian Fleming, Owen’s book ‘An Impeccable Spy’ reveals extraordinary new details about this master spy, whose intelligence influenced some of the most significant events of World War Two.

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Музей-заповедник «Изборск» | Museum-reserve Izborsk

Изборск (в разг. речи также употребляется название Старый Изборск — для отличия от деревни Новый Изборск) — деревня в Печорском районе Псковской области России, один из древнейших русских городов, упоминаемый начальным летописцем как центр кривичского населения вместе со Смоленском и Полоцком.
В 1330 году псковским посадником Шелогой было завершено строительство мощной каменной крепости, которая выдержала десятки вражеских осад и сохранилась до наших дней, являясь выдающимся памятником оборонного зодчества Древней Руси.
Крепость на Жеравьей горе имеет форму неправильного треугольника со скругленными углами. С двух сторон она почти неприступна из-за крутых склонов, с напольной, юго-западной стороны были выкопаны рвы.
Стены и башни крепости построены из местной известняковой плиты на известковом растворе. Прясла стен с внешней и внутренней стороны крепости выложены слоем регулярной кладки, а внутри забутованы плитой на глиняном растворе. Площадь территории крепости составляет 2,4 га, протяженность стен 623 метра, их высота от 7,5 м — 10 м, средняя толщина — 4 м. Диаметр башен в плане −10-12 м, высота 12-19 м, средняя толщина стен башен — 3 м.
Крепость была мощным оборонительным сооружением своего времени, сыгравшим огромную роль в обороне Северо-Запада Руси, в частности Псковской земли, которая с середины XIV века стала независимой от Новгорода Великого. Все попытки Ливонских рыцарей овладеть Изборском оказались безрезультатными.
Никольский собор построен у главного входа внутри крепости — это одноапсидная постройка с очень толстыми стенами, сложенными из плитнякового камня. Центральный куб храма увенчан одной главой на мощном барабане, который украшен двумя простыми орнаментальными поясами.
Точной даты постройки храма нет, в Псковских летописях собор впервые упоминается под 1341 годом. В 16-17 веке к собору с юга пристраивается бесстолпный одноапсидный придел Спаса Преображения.
Об особом значении Изборска и его главного храма говорит тот факт, что при учреждении в 1589 г. Псковской Митрополии ее глава получил титул митрополита Псковского и Изборского. Никольский храм стал кафедральным собором.
Храм является действующим с момента освящения по настоящее время.
В 1966 году в Изборске снимался фильм «Андрей Рублёв».
В настоящее время — туристический центр. Государственный историко-культурный и природно-ландшафтный музей-заповедник (с 1996 года).
Словенские ключи - находятся недалеко от Изборской крепости на береговой террасе Городищенского озера, иногда назывались ключами Двенадцати апостолов.
Первое письменное упоминание об этих источниках относится к семнадцатому веку. Бьют ключи не менее тысячи лет. Это источники карстово-трещинного типа. Забор воды осуществляется на территории трёх-четырёх километров. Проходя через известняк и слои глины, вода фильтруется, очищается, но в ней остается много кальция и минеральных солей. Минерализация воды достаточно велика, как и мощность источников, ежесекундно выбрасывающих до четырёхсот литров воды.
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Yosef Yitzchak (Joseph Isaac) Schneersohn (Hebrew: יוסף יצחק שניאורסאהן‎‎) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement. About the book:

He is also known as the Frierdiker Rebbe (Yiddish for Previous Rebbe), the Rebbe RaYYaTz, or the Rebbe Rayatz (an acronym for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak). After many years of fighting to keep Orthodox Judaism alive from within the Soviet Union, he was forced to leave; he continued to conduct the struggle from Latvia, and then Poland, and eventually the United States, where he spent the last ten years of his life.

Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was born in Lyubavichi, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Smolensk Oblast, Russia), the only son of Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (the Rebbe Rashab), the fifth Rebbe of Chabad. He was appointed as his father's personal secretary at the age of fifteen; in that year, he represented his father in the conference of communal leaders in Kovno. The following year (1896) he participated in the Vilna Conference, where Rabbis and community leaders discussed issues such as: genuine Jewish education; permission for Jewish children not to attend public school on Shabbat; the creation of a united Jewish organization for the purpose of strengthening Judaism. He participated in this conference again in 1908.[2]

On 13 Elul 5657 (1897) at the age of seventeen he married a distant cousin, Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneersohn, daughter of Rabbi Avraham Schneerson of Chișinău, son of Rabbi Yisroel Noach of Nizhyn, son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Tzemach Tzedek.[2]

In 1898 he was appointed head of the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva network.[2]

In 1901,[2] with financial support from Yaakov and Eliezer Poliakoff he opened spinning and weaving mills in Dubrovno and Mahilyow and established a Yeshiva in Bukhara.[3]

As he matured, he campaigned for the rights of Jews by appearing before the Czarist authorities in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 he sought relief for Jewish conscripts in the Russian army by sending them kosher food and supplies in the Russian Far East.[3]

In 1905 he participated in organizing a fund to provide Passover needs for troops in the Far East.

During his life in Smolensk, Rabbi Schneersohn set up a collection of his family's religious books and writings. It includes texts dating back to the 16th century. After World War I, the Bolsheviks found part of the collection and moved it to the Russian State Library. Another part of the collection was confiscated by Soviet troops in Nazi Germany during World War II and moved to Russia's military archive. In 1994, seven books were loaned to the U.S. Library of Congress for 60 days through an inter-library exchange program.[13]

The books were given to the Chabad-Lubavitch library which helped to prolong the use of the books twice, in 1995 and 1996, before they finally refused to return them to Russia in 2000. They proposed an exchange for the opportunity to keep the books indefinitely, but Russia refused. In 2004 the Chabad-Lubavitch filed a lawsuit against Russia, claiming the remaining books. In 2010, an American court granted their claim, which Russia ignored as invalid.[14] In retaliation, in 2011 Russia put a ban on lending works to American museums. In 2014, Senior United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth imposed fines of $50,000 a day for Russia refusing to return the Schneersohn collection of more than 12,000 books and 50,000 religious papers. Since Rabbi Schneersohn had no heirs, Russia claims the collection is a national treasure of the Russian people. This dispute is related to the deteriorating ties between Moscow and the U.S. over the ongoing 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.[15] A Russian court ruled that the Library of Congress should pay fines of $50,000 a day for refusing to return the books.

Ivan Konev

Ivan Stepanovich Konev (Russian: Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев; 28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1897 – 21 May 1973), was a Soviet military commander, who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, retook much of Eastern Europe from occupation by the Axis Powers, and helped in the capture of Germany's capital, Berlin.
In 1956, as the Commander of Warsaw Pact forces, Konev led the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution by Soviet armoured divisions.


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Novodevichy Convent and Sparrow Hills Observation Deck in Moscow, Russia

Thanks for joining another video of our trip to Moscow, the massive and historic capital of the Russian Federation - or, more commonly, simply Russia!

This video is a compilation of clips - first, several from Novodevichy Convent just outside the city center and right near the Sportivnaya Metro stop. The cloister was originally founded in 1524 - the same time frame from which the main cathedral, Cathedral of our Lady in Smolensk, dates from. The history of the convent is quite interesting and worth researching - and certainly worth visiting as it is hauntingly beautiful!

Afterward we head further south on the Metro using the 1 line (red on the map), we stop at Vorobyovy Gory which translates to Sparrow Hills! Here there is a nice promenade area along the Moskva River, but the main site is after a roughly 30 minute walk up the hill to the observation deck - this area provides a nice view of the entire city, and just behind you sits the imposing Moscow State University.

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Footage Shot With: Novodevichy Convent - Sony RX100 IV Cyber-shot Camera & Sparrow Hills - Sony AX33 Handycam Camcorder. Footage shot in 1080p @ 60fps, 50Mbps in XAVC S HD Mode.

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