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3 unusual facts about Loknyansky District


Alexander Matrosov

According to Soviet sources, on 22 February 1943, in the battle for the village of Chernushki, currently in Loknyansky District, Pskov Oblast, Matrosov threw himself onto a German pillvox, blocking the machine-gun with his own chest, to allow his unit to advance.

Loknyansky District

--there are no rural localities in Loknyansky District called Medvedkovo--> as well as four archaeological sites and the location where Alexander Matrosov was killed in battle in 1943 when he blocked a German machine gun fire with his body.

Another district created on August 1, 1927 was Rykovsky District with the administrative center in the selo of Skokovo.



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