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Smolensk [a] is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, 360 kilometers (220 mi) west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest cities in Russia.
- Smolensk Kremlin
1912 photo of the Smolensk Wall by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.....
- Smolensk Oblast
Smolensk Oblast (Russian: Смоленская область, romanized:...
- Smolensk air disaster
On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish...
- Battle
The Battle of Smolensk was a critical engagement during the...
- Principality
The Principality of Smolensk (eventually Grand Principality...
- Smolensk Kremlin
Smolensk Oblast (Russian: Смоленская область, romanized: Smolenskaya oblast'), informally also called Smolenshchina (Смоленщина), [13] is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative centre is the city of Smolensk. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 888,421. [14]
On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria; the former president of Poland-in-exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski; the chief of the Polish General Staff and ...
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On 22 June 1941, the Axis nations invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. At first, the campaign met with spectacular success, as the surprised Soviet troops were not able to offer coordinated resistance. After three weeks of fighting, the Germans had reached the Dvina and Dnieper rivers and planned for a resumption of the offensive. The ...
Phase One: The encirclement battle, and the first Soviet counterattacks
Prior to the German attack, the Soviets launched a counter-offensive; on 6 July, the 7th and 5th Mechanized Corps of the Soviet 20th Army attacked with about 1,500 tanks near Lepiel. The result was a disaster, as the offensive ran directly into the anti-tank defenses of the German 7th Panzer Divisionand the two Soviet mechanized corps were virtually wiped out. On 10 July, Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group began a surprise attack over the Dnieper, his forces overran the weak 13th Army and by 13 July...
Phase Two: The German offensives on the flanks and the further Soviet counteroffensives
After the battle for encirclement near Smolensk ended on 5 August, the opponents drew different conclusions. The Soviet command was satisfied that they managed to restore the front line on the road to Moscow and save part of the encircled armies. It was decided to continue to strike at the opposing German forces, despite high losses. Thus, from their point of view, the battle was just beginning. In the following month, there were two major Soviet offensives: 6–24 August and 29 August – 12 Sep...
Official Soviet data on losses in the Battle of Smolensk (10 July - 10 September 1941) were disclosed only in 1993. According to the study by a team of authors led by Grigori F. Krivosheev, the troops of the four "fronts" and the Soviet Pinsk Naval Flotilla[ru]lost a total of: 1. 486,171 people irrevocably (dead, missing and captured) 2. 273,803 pe...
During the battle, the German army captured the Archives of Smolensk Oblast Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a large amount of documents about local history from 1917 to 1941.The Germans used the document for propaganda about Soviet repression and transported them back to Germany. The Battle of Smolensk was another severe defeat fo...
a David Glantzwrote that "although the two [7th and 5th Soviet] mechanized corps fielded a total of over 1,500 tanks on paper, it is likely as many as two-thirds of their tanks broke down due to me...b In Soviet and post-Soviet military historiography, the term "srazheniye" traditionally describes the complex of battles, that take place on a wide front and consist of a number of separate battle...The Principality of Smolensk (eventually Grand Principality of Smolensk) was a Kievan Rus' lordship from the 11th to the 16th century. Until 1127, when it passed to Rostislav Mstislavich, the principality was part of the land of Kiev.
Smolensk ist eine russische Stadt in der Oblast Smolensk im Westen des Landes nahe der Grenze zu Belarus mit 326.861 Einwohnern.
Smolensk, oblast (region), western Russia. The oblast lies mostly in the upper Dnieper River basin. The terminal moraines of the Smolensk-Moscow Upland lie east-west across the oblast, rising to 1,050 feet (320 m) and dividing the Dnieper, Volga, and Western Dvina basins. Easy portages between.
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