Posts Tagged “the great”

September 29, 2010 Posted Under: Astronauts   Read More

Biography of Vladimir V. Aksenov

Aksenov, Vladimir (01/02/1935). Born February 1, 1935 in the village Giblitsy Kasimov district of Ryazan region. Early years came in during the Great Patriotic War in 1941 – 1945. He led them from their elderly parents mother: Ivana Prokofievich and Vera Feodorovna Aksenov – Teachers of Russian Language and Literature. They instilled Volodya love literature, music. After the war he lived in the village Giblitsy, where his mother worked as a bookkeeper rural cooperatives.

In 1949 he graduated in the village of seven classes and enrolled in an industrial college in Kasimov. But soon the mother died and the boy took to his sister, mother, Zinaida Ivanovna Semakin, worked as a teacher in the suburban city of Kaliningrad (now Korolev).

September 27, 2010 Posted Under: military   Read More

Sheremetev Biography Nikita Vasil'evich

Sheremetev Nikita V. (died 1564), the fourth son of Basil A. Sheremetev Inoc Bassian. Despite the proximity of Nikita you. Width of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, on his part in many campaigns and Silesia in several cities – on its unit, and Provincial activities did not survive any more details. As a consequence, we have only to note those trips, in which he participated, and say a few words about his execution by the Tsar Ivan. Sh participated in two campaigns under Kazan in 1547, and 1552 years.

September 14, 2010 Posted Under: military   Read More

Biography of Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak

Kolchak, Aleksandr Vasilyevich (04 (16) .11.1874 – 07.02.1920), one of the leaders of the Russian counter-revolution, admiral (1917).

Born in a family of marine artillery officer. He graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps (1894). During the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-05 commanded a destroyer and a battery in Port Arthur. Member of the polar expeditions of 1900-03 and 1908-11 (hydrologist).

In 1906-09 and 1911-14 he served at the Navy General Staff. Participated in the 1 st World War in 1914-18 as Chief of Operations Division of the Baltic Fleet, Commander Mine Division and from July 1916 – Commander of the Black Sea Fleet.

September 12, 2010 Posted Under: Astronauts   Read More

Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan Biography

Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (23.07 (05.08) .1905 – 9.12.1970), Soviet aircraft designer, Academician of the USSR (1968, Corresponding Member of 1953), Colonel-General engineering services, twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1956, 1957). Member of the CPSU from 1925. Since 1923 worked as a turner, first at the plants in Rostov-on-Don, and later at the Moscow factory "Dinamo". After serving in the Red Army entered (in 1931) in the Air Force Engineering Academy. Zhukovsky. Upon completion of the Academy (1936) worked as a military representative at the aircraft factory, and then deputy chief of Bureau of the plant. Since 1940 the chief designer of Experimental Design Bureau of aircraft construction.

September 11, 2010 Posted Under: Architects   Read More

Biography Mansart

Mansart – name of two French architects. 1) François Mansart (1598 – 1666). Because of its buildings are remarkable: palace Gaston d'Orléans, to Blois (1635 – 1660), castle "Maisons" on the Seine (1642 – 1651), remarkable for his taste restoration of the Hotel Carnavalet, in Paris, and finally a monastery and church of Val de Gras, op started in 1645, this latest build the artist did not finish as well as boldness and independence in the pursuit of artistic goals, he incurred the displeasure of Queen Anne of Austria. Later, he realized he conceived the project, in a lesser amount, with the construction of the chapel of the castle Fran (Frenes).

September 10, 2010 Posted Under: military   Read More

Biography Polovtsian Simeon

Polovtsian Simeon – Belotserkovsky army colonel and a clerk in the XVII century, one of the companions of Bogdan Khmelnitsky. Cossacks Polovtsi descended from princes Polovtsiev from Skvira-Rozhanovskih, the descendants of the Polovtsian Khan Tugorhana, have received their inheritance on Skvyrka (in the present province of Kiev) and Rozhnov (in the present province of Chernigov) in the Grand Duke Svyatopolk Izyaslavich II, married the daughter of the Tugorhana. Latest Polovtsian prince, Damian, on his return from Tatar captivity, finding their place in looted, entered the Cossacks in the nearest town Skvyrka White Church. Of Cossacks Polovtsiev known novel, the main member of the embassy sent by the Cossacks in 1636 the Polish King Wladyslaw IV, Stepan, and others. But the most remarkable of them Simeon Polovtsian. He was not only a brave war leader, but a man pen, intelligent for its time.

September 9, 2010 Posted Under: military   Read More

Biography Polonsky Evgeny

Polonsky, Eugene F. (25/10/1924 – 29/03/1993) – platoon leader, 4-th motorized pontoon-bridge Regiment (47 Army, 1 st Belorussian Front), Lieutenant. Born in the village now Kuznechonki Palkino district of the Pskov region into a peasant family. Russian. He graduated from 10 classes. In the Red Army from October 1941. He graduated from the Military Engineering College.

September 3, 2010 Posted Under: Astronauts   Read More

Biography Armasheva Grigory Ivanovich

Armash Grigory Ivanovich (1.28.1914 – 31.03.1989) – navigator, a Hero of the USSR (1943), Lieutenant-Colonel. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war. At the front of the Great Patriotic War of June 1941 fought in the 261 BAP, was the mate of the regiment.

By June 1943 made 85 sorties. After the war until 1946 he served in the Air Force, was the navigator division. Until 1979 he worked as a foreman at one of the Leningrad plant.

September 3, 2010 Posted Under: Astronauts   Read More

Biography Vitruka Andrew Nikiforovich

Vitruka Andrew Nykyforovych (07/08/1902 – 07/03/1946) – ground-attack pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1942), the People's Hero of Yugoslavia (in 1945), Major General Aviation. Member of the fighting on Khalkhin goal and the Soviet-Finnish war. On the Great Patriotic War from day one. He commanded 65 Shap, then 291 shad. By early 1942 completed 21 sorties. After the war, commanded a division. His name was in school with. Andrushky Zhytomyr region. (Ukraine), in which he studied.

August 30, 2010 Posted Under: Architects   Read More

Biography of Kitty Wali

Valya Kotik (Valentin) (11/02/1930 – 17/02/1944), a young party partisan movement in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, the pioneer, the Hero of the Soviet Union (27.6. 1958, posthumously).

Born into a peasant family. From 1937 he lived in Shepetivka, attended high school.

After occupying the town the German troops joined an illegal organization, was connected, then in August 1943 as a partisan IA Muzaleva, participated in the hostilities; twice wounded. He died in battle.

Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1 st degree and a medal.

Name of Cat named ships, schools, Pioneer squads. In Shepetivka in 1960 erected a monument to the pioneers of Kitten Ukraine (sculptors L. Skiba, P. Fleet, I. Samotes).

Lit.: Kitten, AN, He was a pioneer. Mother's story, Moscow, 1958; Nadzhafrov GD, Bold not die, M., 1968.