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7 unusual facts about Smolensk


Aryeh Leib Shifman

Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shifman (haRav Aryeh Leib ben Moshe Ber Shifman October 24th, 1891 (Turaw, Belarus) - November 19th, 1937 (Smolensk, Russia) was a Rabbi and a student of the Chofetz Chaim.

EV2 The Capitals Route

In Russia, the EV2 is in the planning stages and will pass through Smolensk on its way to Moscow.

Freddy Cadena

He has also participated in other festivals like: Russian Music Scene, Glinka International Festival in Smolensk, Japan's Sou in Japan, Ibero American Culture Festival (commemory concert for the Ecuadoran composer Luis Humberto Salgado's centenary) and others.

Subačius Gate

Subačius Gate was arguably one of the most important gates in the city of Vilnius, leading strategic way to Vitebsk, Polock, Smolensk and Moscow.

Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig

Ludwig served initially as the doctor for 3rd Infantry at the Schorndorf garrison, and subsequently as director for the Württemberg field hospital at Smolensk in 1812.

Yakovlev Yak-141

The factory at Smolensk had anticipated this and had not constructed the tooling for production.

Yakovlev Yak-18T

The Yak-18T prototype had its first flight in mid-1967 and subsequently the type was placed in series production in Smolensk.


Arbat Street

This street changes its name several times within the city limits, ultimately crossing the MKAD ring road, and becoming the M1 highway to Smolensk, Minsk and Warsaw.

Augustus III of Poland

English translation: August III, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia (i.e. Galicia), Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlaskie, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia, Chernihiv, and also hereditary Duke of Saxony and Prince-elector.

Black Grave

Comparable to the barrows of Gnyozdovo near Smolensk, the Black Grave has a height of 11 metres and a circumference of 125 metres.

Desna River

The river's source lies eastsoutheast from the city of Smolensk and not far from Yelnya in a forest near the village of Naleti.

Dmitriy Abramenkov

He worked as a crane operator and locomotive technician, then as staff leader of the All-Union Komsomol of the Smolensk AES, chairman of the District Committee of People's Control, instructor of the City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and following election to the State Duma, Master of Production Training at the Roslavl Technical School for Rail Transport.

Engelhardt family

The Engelhardt name has been attached to a scientific institute in Moscow, the observatory of Kazan University, the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the main railway station in Smolensk, a crater on the moon, an asteroid, and a star in the constellation Cygnus.

Erich Naumann

During November 1941, reports he sent to Adolf Eichmann state that he was responsible for the deaths of 17,256 people in Smolensk.

Gainan Saidkhuzhin

He combined sport with studies, graduating from Smolensk Institute of Physical Education in 1967 and from the economics faculty of the Moscow State University in 1973.

Georg-Hans Reinhardt

From early 1942 until June 1944, Third Panzer Army held its ground around Vitebsk and Smolensk, defeating most Soviet attacks and withdrawing only a short distance in 1943.

Gnezdovo

In later centuries, the ruling princes from the House of Rurik preferred to settle in a fortified castle at a distance from their capital: in Vyshgorod rather than Kiev, in Smyadyn rather than Smolensk, in Kideksha rather than Suzdal, in Bogolyubovo rather than Vladimir.

Ivan Kamera

As chief commander of the artillery within the 19th Army of the Soviet Union in July 1941, Kamera lost contact with the 19th Army during operations near Smolensk, but succeeded in assisting Konstantin Rokossovsky's improvized counterattack against the advancing forces of Germany's Army Group Center at the heights of Yartsevo in Smolensk Oblast.

Jakub Wejher

He founded the town of Wejherowo and in it, the Kalwaria Wejherowska chapel complex (fulfilling an oath he took when he nearly died during the Smolensk War at Biała in 1634).

Karl Schnörrer

All along the front the Soviets were advancing and in October, they were in Vitebsk as the Germans unsuccessfully tried to hold the crucial railhead at Smolensk.

Katyn

Katyn war cemetery, a Polish military cemetery in the village of Katyn, Smolensk Oblast, Russia

Kazimierz Gilarski

Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski (May 7, 1955 in Rudołowice – April 10, 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison.

Mamai

Michael Glinski was the most illustrious member of the family: he studied at the German university, took part as a knight in the Italian Wars, was the most powerful man in Lithuania in the 16th century, but later rebelled and run away with his brothers to Muscovy and helped the Russians to retake the city of Smolensk.

Moscow Military District

It was relocated to Smolensk, and consisted of the 4th Guards Tank Division and 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division (at Yelnya).

Moshe Schneersohn

In 1801 his father took him for treatment with doctors in Vitebsk, St. Petersburg and Smolensk.

Nikolay Gredeskul

She was arrested on July 5, 1941, sentenced to 10 years in the Soviet labor camps and died in a German offensive outside of Smolensk when prisoners were forced to dig trenches to stop German tanks.

Our Lady of Kazan Orthodox Cathedral

The first stone of the temple was laid in November 2004 by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, (since 2009 the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church) following an agreement by the Cuban authorities with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Peter Fishman

In 2005 he was the artistic director of the creative team for the cultural exchange between the twin cities of Smolensk and Hagen (Germany).

Potulice concentration camp

In 1943 a transport of 543 children from the regions of Smolensk and Vitebsk arrived.

Prince of Pereyaslavl

The principality emerges was apportioned as the inheritance of Vsevolod Yaroslavich, son of Yaroslav the Wise; his brother Svyatoslav received Chernigov, while Smolensk went to Vyacheslav and Vladimir-in-Volhynia to Igor; this ladder of succession is related to the seniority order mentioned above.

Principality of Pereyaslavl

The principality can be traced as a semi-independent dominion from the inheritance of the sons of Yaroslav the Wise, Svyatoslav receiving Chernigov, Vsevolod getting Pereyaslavl, Smolensk going to Vyacheslav and Vladimir-in-Volhynia going to Igor; this ladder of succession.

Vasilisa Kozhina

A station Vasilisino of Gagarinsky District of Smolensk Oblast is named in honor of Vasilisa Kozhina.

Vladimir IV Rurikovich

Vladimir IV Rurikovich (Владимир Рюрикович in Russian) (1187 – March 3, 1239), Prince of Pereyaslavl (1206–1213), Smolensk (1213–1219) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1223–1235).

Yelnya Offensive

The offensive was against the semi-circular Yelnya salient which the German 4th Army had extended 50 km south-east of Smolensk forming a staging area for a continued offensive towards Vyazma and eventually Moscow.

Yevgeni Osipov

Yevgeni Sergeyevich Osipov (b. 1989), Russian footballer who last played with FC Dnepr Smolensk


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