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Feb 25, 2022 · India Today Web Desk. New Delhi, UPDATED: Feb 26, 2022 16:31 IST. History of Russia: Ukraine was a part of Russia from 1922 to 1991 when Moscow was the capital of the USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was also known as the Soviet Union (SU). Not only Ukraine but other countries, including Leningrad (Russian SFSR or Russian Soviet ...
Alexey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov ( Ru: Алексей Александрович Кузнецов) (20 February [ O.S. 7 February] 1905 – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet statesman, CPSU functionary, Lieutenant General and member of CPSU Central Committee (1939–1949). Born in Borovichi, in the Novgorod province of European Russian, he started ...
The Soviet Union imposed heavy control on city growth, preventing some cities from reaching their full potential while promoting others. For the entirety of its existence, the most populous cities were Moscow and Leningrad (both in Russian SFSR), with the third far place taken by Kiev (Ukrainian SSR).
Sep 8, 2016 · On September 8, 1941, German forces closed in around the Soviet city of Leningrad, initiating a siege that would last nearly 900 days and claim the lives of 800,000 civilians.
Apr 8, 2024 · Siege of Leningrad, prolonged siege (September 8, 1941–January 27, 1944) of the city of Leningrad ( St. Petersburg) in the Soviet Union by German and Finnish armed forces during World War II. The siege actually lasted 872 days. After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, German armies had by early September approached Leningrad ...
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1929–1949) Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov ( Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Родио́нов; 25 October [ O.S. 12 October] 1907 – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet - Russian statesman who, from 1946 to 1949, was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR. [1] He was purged ...
