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2nd Strike Army
2ND STRIKE ARMY, an armed forces unit of the USSR. Formed in December 1941 along the Volkhov Front for offensive action, to break through the Siege of Leningrad. In January – July 1942, during the Lyuban Offensive, it was encircled and defeated
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8th Army
8th ARMY. An armed forces unit of the USSR. Formed in October 1939 as a part of the Leningrad Air Defence Force. On 22 June 1941, it was located on the frontier along the Neman River, and included the 10th and 11th Infantry corps
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23rd Army
23RD ARMY. Formed in May 1941 in Leningrad, consisting of the 19th and 50th Infantry corps, the 10th Mechanics Corps, the 27th and 28th Regional reinforcements and other units and detachments
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42nd Army
42ND ARMY. An armed forces unit of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. Formed in August 1941 on the Leningrad Front. Comprised of the 2nd and 3rd Guards divisions of the People's Volunteer Militia, the 6th Marine Brigade
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50th Anniversary of October Memorial Park
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF OCTOBER MEMORIAL PARK is located in the north-east of St. Petersburg, in Polyustrovo, between Metallistov Avenue, Revolyutsii Highway and Marshala Tukhachevskogo Street. The total area of the park is 32 hectares
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55th Army
55TH ARMY. An armed forces unit of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. Formed in late August 1941 on the Leningrad Front to defend enemy approaches to Leningrad from the south (in the regions of Pavlovsk, Kolpino
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1617
By the Treaty of Stolbovo, lands of the Izhora Pogost Slavonic Parish passed to
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1702
13 August. The victorious battle of P.M. Apraksin's detachment with Sweden troops commanded by General Kronjort took place on the banks of the Izhora River. "Swedes with their mounted troops took to flight from us after the battle on the Izhora
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1707
Peter I granted towns of Koporye and Yamburg to A.D. Menshikov. Among estates of the Koporye Uyezd there was the Saari grange with one-storied wooden house and utility constructions
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1710
11 June (24 June NS) . Peter I granted to his wife Catherine Alekseyevna a part of Menshikov's estates including the Saari grange. "His Majesty has deigned to grant Saari and Slavonic granges with villages
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1711
7 March. Catherine Alexeyevna has become the
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1711- the 1720s
The Palace Quarter was
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1714 - November 1716
The Church of the Dormition has been constructed by the architect Verster (on the teritory of the contemporary Lyceum Garden). "Outside the church was covered with planks and painted like stone one and inside it was upholstered with linen and it
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1717
The construction of the Tsarskoye Selo "perspective" road between the estate and Saint Petersburg was started.
The autumn. The building of the wooden Church of the Annunciation was begun on the place of the Znamenskaya Church ( the Church of
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1718 - 1724
The stone house of Catherine I, "including six rooms with fourteen windows", was built by the architect I.F. Braunstein and a fruit garden with greenhouses and a hothouse were laid by gardeners J. Roozen and I. Vogt
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1724
7 August. "His Emperor Majesty and Her Majesty the Empres decided to go the village of Sarskoye ".
8 August. "All Ministers and noble persons have gone to Sarskoye Village".
9 August
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1727
After the death of Catherine I in 1727 the Saari Grange carried over Tsesarevna Elizabeth (Yelizaveta) Petrovna according to the
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1732
According to the census of 1732 fourty eight officials were registered at Tsarskoye Selo. 88 peasant homesteads were at the Kuzminskaya Quarter and about 600 people lived in these peasant homesteads
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1734
May. The laying of the foundation stone of the Znamenskaya Church (the Church of the Holy Sign) it was built in 1747, according to the design by M.G. Zemtsov
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1741
25 November. Tsarckoye Selo has become the official summer residence of Russian tsars in the connection with Empress Elizabeth's accession to the
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1742
Rebuilding the estate manor (with the aim to enlarge it) was begun under the direction of A.V. Kvasov and S.I.
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1743
3 February. Celebrations devoted to returning the Empress Elizabeth from Moscow after the coronation took place.
Water came to Tsarskoye Selo from Vittolovo springs through a chanal. The works were done to the design by the engineer I
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1746
8 August. The ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the Palace Church of the Resurrection of Christ took place in the presence of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna
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1747
May. The celebratory transferring of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Mather of God "The Holy Sign", especially esteemed by persons of the House of the Romanovs, from Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo with 3-day icon-bearing procession took place
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1748
The architect B.-F. Rastrelli became the Head of the building work at Tsarskoye
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1749
15 November. The Vittolovo springs water was turned on into the Great Pond of Tsarskoye Selo through a
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1750
27 August. Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov visited Tsarskoye Selo according to the invitation of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. He reflected his impressions in a great poetical work where famous poet lines have sounded: "If only with a beautiful
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1752
10 May. The Decree of Elizabeth Petrovna about rebuilding the Tsarskoye Selo ensemble and the reconstruction of the palace by the architect F.-B. Rastrelli was published
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1752 - 1753
The reconstruction of the Palace Quarter was done. Forming Sadovaya Street and building the Cavaliers' Houses according to the design of S.I. Chevakinsky were made. At the late 18th century the houses were overbuilt with the second floors by I.V
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1752 - the 1760s
The territory of the palace parks were enlarged. The Hermitage and Grotto pavilions were built, the new Upper Garden and Menagerie were reconstructed and the Monbijou povilion was built there
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