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unusual facts about Russian Army



BTR-90

The vehicle was intended for the use of mechanized units of the Russian Army as well as marine units of the Russian Navy, as a vehicle for fire support, transportation of personnel, surveillance, reconnaissance, and patrolling tasks.

Estonian Air Force

Thus many Estonians in the Russian Army returned home to take up arms for their homeland.

Fatal Extraction

Rodney catches Del gambling at the One-Eleven Club one night, and Del explains that he is striking a deal with Ronnie Nelson to get hold of some Russian Army camcorders to flog for Christmas.

Finnish parliamentary election, 1916

The Russian army's severe losses to the German army started to awaken among the Finns the hope that they could get regain self-government.

Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin

During the Russo-Turkish war he was a contractor for the Russian army, and on August 1, 1879, Czar Alexander II awarded him a medal in recognition of his services.

Kuban Cossacks

With the help of the governor of Krasnodar Kray Alexander Tkachev, the host has become an integral part of the Kuban life, there are joint combat training operations with the Russian Army, policing of the rural areas with the Militsiya, preparation of local youth for the draft service.

Nachume Miller

His father was a captain in the front lines of the Russian Army during World War II and his mother was a Lithuanian who had once been held captive in a concentration camp.

The Black Sea was storming

The eastern part of the Ottoman Empire was occupied by the Russian Army and the population of Kars and Erzurum was killed by Russians and Armenians.


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Aleksander Romanowicz

Born April 1, 1871 in his family estate Olekszyszki (near Lida), in 1890 he graduated from the Russian Army Cadet Corps in Polotsk, then entered the Officer’s School of Cavalry, becoming in 1892 a professional officer of the Russian Army.

Alexander Krivoshein

He was one of several ministers to be dismissed for opposing Nicholas II's decision to take command of the Russian Army.

Alexander Lieven

Alexander Karlovich Lieven (1801-1880),General in the Imperial Russian Army and Governor of Taganrog

Alexander von Lüders

In 1837 he became the commander of the 5th Infantry Corps of Russian Army.

Anrep family

Joseph Carl von Anrep (ru: Iosif Romanovich von Anrep) (1796 – 1860), a brother of the previous, was a colonel in Russian army, promoted to general shortly before his death.

Battle of Boruszkowce

The battle took place on 14 June 1792, between a detachment of a Polish army of Michał Wielhorski and a Russian army group under the command of Michail Kachovski.

Battle of Dobrynichi

The Russian army chased the remains of the impostor’s forces for 8 km, but he managed to retreat to Rylsk.

Battle of Dubienka

The Battle of Dubienka occurred during the Polish–Russian War of 1792 (War of the Second Partition of Poland) where on July 18, 1792, the Polish army under the command of General Tadeusz Kościuszko defended the Bug River crossing against the Russian army under General Michail Kachovski.

Bumerang

On 21 February 2012, Colonel General Alexander Postnikov said that the Russian Army would be taking the first deliveries of the Bumerang prototype in 2013.

California Conquest

Arturo Bordega and Julia Lawrence eventually travel to Fort Ross, where they are able to capture Fredo Brios (as well as a fictional Russian princess, Helena de Gagarine, and a high-ranking Russian army officer), and otherwise manage to thwart the treasonous conspiracy.

Castricum

On 6 October 1799, a Franco-Dutch army under Guillaume Brune defeated an Anglo-Russian army under Ralph Abercromby and the Duke of York in the Battle of Castricum.

Dimitri Amilakhvari

Dimitri's grandfather, Ivane Amilakhvari (1829–1905), was an eminent general in the Russian army.

Durov

Nadezhda Durova (1783 – 1866), a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian army

Emil F. Reinhardt

On April 25, 1945, elements of the division reached the Elbe and became the first American unit to contact the Russian Army.

Fedorovich

Andrey Fedorovich Budberg (1817–1840), colonel in the Imperial Russian Army

Friedrich von Schubert

He became an infantry general in the Russian army, head of the military topographic service, and honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Hyojong of Joseon

150 Joseon musketeers, along with 3,000 Manchus, met Russian army at the Battle of Hutong (Hangul : 호통 Hanja : 好通), present-day Yilan), which was won by the Qing-Joseon allied forces.

Iosif Prut

In 1918 he graduated from the Ecole Nouvelle in Chailly near Lausanne, and entered the École Polytechnique in Paris, but quit and volunteered to serve in the Russian army's expedition corps.

Jan Rządkowski

Rządkowski was a skilled commander, but also had to become a politician in order to convince Nicholas II to extend the Polish formations fighting alongside the Russian Army.

Johnny J. Jones

Returning from a mission over Munich, Germany on July 11, 1944 his crew was forced to bail out near the Dutch-Belgian border and was taken prisoner of war and liberated by the Russian Army on May 2, 1945.

José Antonio Saravia

José Antonio Saravia, José Antonio Sarabia, (Villanueva del Fresno, Spain, 1785 - Resident in Russia since about 1812 - General of the Russian Army 1843 - Kamianets-Podilskyi, now in Ukraine, 2 April 1871), was General Inspector of the Russian Military Academies under the Tsars Nikolai I and Alexander II.

Karl Gustav von Strandmann

Born in the Governorate of Livonia to Gustav Ernst von Strandmann, governor-general of Siberia and a general of infantry of the Russian Army, Karl Gustav von Strandmann joined the Page Corps at an early age.

Krasny, Krasninsky District, Smolensk Oblast

At the Battle of Krasnoi in November 1812, the Russian army inflicted heavy losses on the remnants of the French Grande Armée.

Lepiel

After Polatsk was captured by the Russian army in 1563, the Vitebsk government was no longer able to protect its property from the attacks of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Münnich

Count Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683 – 1767), German nobleman and general in the Russian army

Nikolay Raevsky

When the Russian army entered Saxony, Raevsky was forced to return to Russia because of his poor health.

Not Gonna Get Us

In 2009, t.A.T.u. played a special concert featuring the song at the Eurovision Song Contest with a Russian Army Choir, the Alexandrov Ensemble.

Stephen Greenblatt

Greenblatt's grandparents immigrated to the United States during the early 1890s in order to escape a Czarist Russification plan to conscript young Jewish men into the Russian army.

Svetozar Marković

There he also met Dmitry Pisarev and Lyuben Karavelov, who in the autumn of 1876 took part as a volunteer in the Serbian campaign against Turkey, and subsequently joined the Bulgarian irregular contingent with the Russian army in the war of 1877-1878.

Thadeus von Sievers

Faddey Vasilievich Sievers (Фаддей Васильевич Сиверс, 1853–1915) was a member of the Sievers family who served as a general in the Russian army during World War I at the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes.

Thanks to My Mother

In the last week of September, 1944, the Kaiserwald concentration camp was evacuated due to the advance of the Russian army.

The Turkish Gambit

Upon arrival, Varvara is reunited with Pyotr, and Fandorin delivers his message: the Turkish army is advancing towards the Bulgarian town of Plevna, which sits on the road to Sofia and must be taken so the Russian army can easily advance through Bulgaria and into Turkey.

Theodor Friedrich von Schubert

Friedrich von Schubert (1779-1865), son of the former, infantry general in the Russian army.

Trabzon Province

The province was a site of major fighting between Ottoman and Russian forces during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I, which resulted in the capture of the city of Trabzon by the Russian army under command of Grand Duke Nicholas and Nikolai Yudenich in April 1916.

Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence

UNA-UNSO deputies destroyed a Russian flag in Ukrainian parliament, UNA-UNSO fighters joined the Chechen rebels in First Chechen War and fought against the Russian army, its activists organized street protests against Russian pop-stars visiting Ukraine.

Vladislav Klembovsky

Alexander Kerensky, head of the Russian Provisional Government after the overthrow the Tsar, appointed him Supreme Commander in Chief of the Russian Army in August 1917, replacing Lavr Kornilov.

Vyazma

Owing to the intervention of Eugène de Beauharnais and Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Davout managed to break through the Russian army's encirclement.

Walerian Czuma

He was taken POW by the Russian Army and imprisoned in the infamous Butyrka prison.

Zaporozhets za Dunayem

The story is based on a historical event: when the Zaporizhian Sich was overwhelmed by the Russian army, the Zaporizhian Cossacks and their families headed across the Danube River to the apparently safe haven of the Ottoman Empire (this area is now part of Romania) and established the Danube Sich (see Zaporozhian Host: Russian rule).