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Nov 30, 2022 · Battle of Maloyaroslavets: a battle that made both armies retreat. Napoleon, leaving Moscow, headed south to the regions still unaffected by the war. He wanted to break through the Kaluga tract...
Jan 7, 2024 · South of Maloyaroslavets, the 49th and 50th Armies are gaining ground and pushing toward Medyn and Yukhnov. This is forcing the Germans to evacuate from Borovsk and Maloyaroslavets. The...
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January 1, 1942. 43rd Army troops are now fighting at the edge of Maloyaroslavets. The Germans are desperately trying to load their vehicles and escape des...
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The present town, however, was founded only at the end of the 14thcentury by Prince Vladimir the Brave of Serpukhov (1353-1410), who named it after his fourth son, Yaroslav (1388-1426). The first written reference to the town occurred in chronicles under the year 1402, which is considered the town’s official founding date. At the same time Vladimir...
The placid existence of Maloyaroslavets would be shattered — and most of the town destroyed — by the momentous events of late October 1812. Isolated in a half-ruined Moscow and with no prospects of Russia’s suing for peace, Napoleon and his much reduced army (about 110,000 troops) began their exodus from Moscow on Oct. 19. Because of lack of fodder...
In the following decade Maloyaroslavets gradually recovered, and by the middle of the 19thcentury, it had over 2,500 inhabitants. The St. Nicholas Monastery was imposingly rebuilt in a neoclassical style, but its main gate was left as a memorial with clear traces of the fighting. Nearby is a small memorial to the death of General Delzons. In 1991 ...
During World War II, Maloyaroslavets endured German occupation from Oct. 18, 1941 until its liberation on Jan. 2, 1942 after Red Army successes in the Battle of Moscow.
- William Brumfield
Maloyaroslavets (Russian: Малояросла́вец) is a town and the administrative center of Maloyaroslavetsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Luzha River (Oka's basin), 61 kilometers (38 mi) northeast of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast.
The Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on 24 October 1812 as part of the French invasion of Russia. It was Kutuzov's decisive battle to force Napoleon to retreat northwest over Mozhaisk to Smolensk on the devastated route of his advance with a higher probability of starvation.
