MOSCOW TOURIST ATTRACTIONS #2: Amazing Things to Do in Moscow, Russia
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Our new selection includes:
Number 10 - Museum of Cosmonautics
Number 9 - Izmailovo Kremlin
Number 8 - Moscow City
Number 7 - Manezh square and building
Number 6 - Gorki Park
Number 5 - GUM (Universal State Store)
Number 4 - Tsaritsyno
Number 3 - Kolomenskoye
Number 2 - Pushkin Museum
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-- Zero Kilometer
-- Zaryadye Park
-- Moscow Planetarium
Number 1 - Novodevichy Monastery and his famous cemetery
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Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin ist zu einem Besuch in Israel eingetroffen. Offizieller Anlass ist die feierliche Einweihung eines Siegesdenkmales über Nazideutschland.
Russia, Suzdal, Vladimir region.Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life.
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Museum of wooden architecture in Suzdal - an open-air museum. Its territory contains wooden buildings belonging to XVII-XIX centuries. All of them are collected from different places of the Vladimir province.
Музей деревянного зодчества в Суздале — это музей под открытым небом. На его территории собраны деревянные постройки, относящиеся к XVII-XIX вв. Все они собраны из различных мест Владимирской губернии.
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Russia/Moscow (Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknow Soldier-Kremlin) Part 10
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The Russian Tomb of the Unknown is just outside the Kremlin. The Changing of the Guard ceremony is fascinating in every country.The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Могила Неизвестного Солдата in Russian, [mɐˈɡʲilə nʲɪɪˈzvʲɛsnəvə sɐlˈdatə]) is a war memorial, dedicated to the Soviet soldiers killed during World War II. It is located at the Kremlin Wall in the Alexander Garden in Moscow.
The remains of the unknown soldiers killed in the Battle of Moscow in 1941 were initially buried in a mass grave of the Shtyki Memorial at the 40th km of the Leningrad highway at the city of Zelenograd. This was the location of the closest approach of the German armies to Moscow during the war. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle, in December 1966 these remains were relocated to the Kremlin Wall. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was designed by architects D. I. Burdin, V. A. Klimov, Yu. R. Rabayev and sculptor Nikolai Tomsky, and was unveiled to the public on May 8, 1967. The dark red porphyry monument is decorated with a bronze sculpture of a laurel branch and a soldier's helmet laid upon a banner.
In front of the monument, there is a five-pointed star in a square field of labradorite, which emanates the Eternal Flame from its center. The flame illuminates a bronze inscription Имя твоё неизвестно, подвиг твой бессмертен (translit.: Imya tvoyo neizvestno, podvig tvoy bessmerten, Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal). The torch for the memorial's Eternal Flame was transported from Leningrad, where it had been lit from the Eternal Flame at the Field of Mars.
To the left of the tomb is a granite wall with an inlay stating: 1941 - To Those Who Have Fallen For The Motherland - 1945. To the right of the tomb, lining the walkway are dark red porphyry blocks with incapsulated soils from hero cities, Leningrad, Kiev, Stalingrad, Odessa, Sevastopol, Minsk, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Tula and Brest, Murmansk and Smolensk. The plate for “Stalingrad” read “Volgograd” until September 2004. Further to the right of these monuments is an obelisk in red granite, listing the names of 40 “Cities of Military Glory” divided into groups of four. This monument was dedicated on May 8, 2010.
In 1997, a Guard of Honour of the Kremlin Regiment (which had guarded the Lenin Mausoleum) was restored at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the federal law of December 8, 1997, On Immortalizing the Soviet People’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A Changing of the Guard Ceremony takes place every hour.
Putin’s Reforms: New Governors Boast Top Education and Commitment to Prosperity of Russia’s Regions
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Government officials at all levels must be elected in an open and transparent process. Vladimir Putin discussed it today during his meeting with the graduates of the Management Candidate Pool Development Program. Seven of them are already acting governors. The President spoke to them separately.
The Life And Death Of Vladimir the Great
Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь Volodiměrъ Svętoslavičь, Old Norse as Valdamarr Sveinaldsson, Russian: Влади́мир, Vladimir, Ukrainian: Володимир, Volodymyr, Belarusian: Уладзiмiр, Uladzimir; c. 958 – 15 July 1015, Berestove) was a prince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015.
Vladimir's father was prince Sviatoslav of the Rurik dynasty. After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered Rus'. In Sweden, with the help from his relative Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, he assembled a Varangian army and reconquered Novgorod from Yaropolk. By 980 Vladimir had consolidated the Kievan realm from modern-day Ukraine to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarian, Baltic, and Eastern nomads. Originally a follower of Slavic paganism, Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988 and Christianized the Kievan Rus'.
Vladimir, born in 958 in Budutino (Russian: Будутино), was the natural son and youngest son of Sviatoslav I of Kiev by his housekeeper Malusha. Malusha is described in the Norse sagas as a prophetess who lived to the age of 100 and was brought from her cave to the palace to predict the future. Malusha's brother Dobrynya was Vladimir's tutor and most trusted advisor. Hagiographic tradition of dubious authenticity also connects his childhood with the name of his grandmother, Olga Prekrasa, who was Christian and governed the capital during Sviatoslav's frequent military campaigns. His place of birth is identified by different authors either as Budyatichi (modern Volyn_Oblast, Ukraine) or Budyatino (modern Pskov Oblast, Russia)
Transferring his capital to Pereyaslavets in 969, Sviatoslav designated Vladimir ruler of Novgorod the Great but gave Kiev to his legitimate son Yaropolk. After Sviatoslav's death in 972, a fratricidal war erupted in 976 between Yaropolk and his younger brother Oleg, ruler of the Drevlians. In 977 Vladimir fled to his kinsman Haakon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, collecting as many Norse warriors as he could to assist him to recover Novgorod. On his return the next year, he marched against Yaropolk. On his way to Kiev he sent ambassadors to Rogvolod (Norse: Ragnvald), prince of Polotsk, to sue for the hand of his daughter Rogneda (Norse: Ragnhild). The high-born princess refused to affiance herself to the son of a bondswoman, so Vladimir attacked Polotsk, slew Rogvolod, and took Ragnhild by force. Polotsk was a key fortress on the way to Kiev, and capturing Polotsk and Smolensk facilitated the taking of Kiev in 978, where he slew Yaropolk by treachery and was proclaimed knyaz of all Kievan Rus.
Years of pagan rule
Vladimir continued to expand his territories beyond his father's extensive domain. In 981, he conquered the Cherven towns from the Poles; in 981-982 he suppressed a Vyatichi rebellion; in 983, he subdued the Yatvingians; in 984, he conquered the Radimichs; and in 985, he conducted a military campaign against the Volga Bulgars, planting numerous fortresses and colonies on his way.
Although Christianity spread in the region under Oleg's rule, Vladimir had remained a thoroughgoing pagan, taking eight hundred concubines (along with numerous wives) and erecting pagan statues and shrines to gods. He may have attempted to reform Slavic paganism by establishing the thunder-god, Perun, as a supreme deity.
La Provincia di Vladimir
La Provincia di Vladimir si trova a Nord-Est del territorio europeo della Russia.
Situata sulle sponde del fiume Kljaz'ma la luminosa città di Vladimir stupisce per il biancore delle sue mura, per i giardini e le cupole dorate.
La Chiesa dell'Intercessione sulle sponde del fiume Nerl', un capolavoro in mattoni bianchi dell'architettura russa, è diventata monumento eterno ai maestri del XII secolo. Susdal'è una città museo e la città delle favole, dove la storia antica si conserva nella sua forma originaria.
Milioni di turisti ogni anno vengono fin qui per vedere con i propri occhi i più di cento (100) monumenti dei secoli XIII-XV.
D'estate i pellegrini da tutto il mondo si danno appuntamento a Murom per far visita ai santi protettori Pietro e Febronio.
Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life, Suzdal, Russia
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Preserved wooden buildings (churches, one summer and one winter, log houses and household buildings) were brought here from villages in the Suzdal district. The churches were constructed of pine, without using nails. Their domes were covered with silvery aspen shakes and the sole tool used to build them was the axe.
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HISTORICAL PLACES OF RUSSIA IN GOOGLE EARTH PART ONE ( 1/9 )
1. ALEXANDERNEVSKY CATHEDRAL,UDMURTIA 56°50'38.52N 53°12'3.54E
2. ARMENIAN CHURCH, ROSTOV 47°13'49.90N 39°45'56.33E
3. PREGELBRÜCKE, KALININGRAD 54°41'27.55N 20°35'57.83E
4. ARSENAL,UDMURTIA 56°51'11.89N 53°12'55.79E
5. ROSTOV YOUTH THEATRE,ROSTOV 47°13'47.50N 39°45'51.95E
6. ZAKHAYMSKIE GATE,KALININGRAD 54°42'34.62N 20°32'18.68E
7. GOLDEN GATES, VLADIMIR 56° 7'36.47N 40°23'49.48E
8. MONUMENT Genl.PLIEV,VLADIKAVKAZ 43° 1'11.35N 44°40'48.24E
9. ST. JOHN BAPTIST,ASTRAKHAN 46°20'56.29N 48° 3'30.36E
10. WINDMILLS, SUZDAL 56°24'43.19N 40°26'13.78E
11. IVANGOROD FORTRESS,IVANGOLROD 59°22'31.80N 28°12'2.14E
12. SCULPTURE MOTHER HOME,KALININGRAD 54°43'2.09N 20°30'6.84E
13. OMSK ASSUMPTION CATHEDRAL,OMSK 54°59'24.52N 73°22'0.75E
14. CHIEF FAIR BUILDING, NIZHNY NOVGOROD 56°19'42.23N 43°57'40.93E
15. MARIINSKY PALACE,ST PETERSBURG 59°55'50.74N 30°18'34.09E
16. SAVIOUR CHURCH,UFA 54°49'45.34N 55°59'59.02E
17. GRAND KREMLIN,MOSCOW 55°45'5.64N 37°37'2.83E
18. SPASSKAYA TOWER,MOSCOW 55°45'9.14N 37°37'16.20E
19. ANCIENT WATER TOWER, UDMURTIA 56°51'3.69N 53°12'27.29E
20. ORESHEK FORTRESS, LENINGRAD 59°57'13.71N 31° 2'18.32E
21. STS. PETER & PAUL CHURCH, SMOLENSK 54°47'47.09N 32° 2'15.69E
22. FOREVER WITH RUSSIA,UDMURTIA 56°51'8.11N 53°11'49.52E
23. CHURCH OF CHELYABINSK, RUSSIA 55° 8'23.77N 61°24'56.43E
24. GERMAN CHURCH,VLADIKAVKAZ 43° 2'12.36N 44°40'40.13E
25. CATHEDRAL OF ST. NICHOLAS,OMSK 54°58'39.31N 73°22'46.95E
Ceremony for repatriation of Kaczynski body
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The coffin carrying the body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski was flown from the Russian city of Smolensk to Warsaw on Sunday.
The plane took off from the same airport where the president and 95 others had been attempting to land at on Saturday but crashed in thick fog during the descent.
Among the dead were Poland''s army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, and heads of the air and land forces.
Russia''s president Vladimir Putin stood solemnly next to the coffin in a short ceremony before the coffin was placed in a military plane.
Kaczynski''s coffin will be taken to the presidential palace after it arrives in Warsaw, the Polish government said. No date for a funeral has been set.
The party was headed to Smolensk to honour 22,000 Polish officers slain by the Soviet secret police in 1940 in the western Soviet Union.
The death of the president and much of the state and defence establishment in Russia, en route to commemorating one of the saddest events in the neighbouring nations'' long, complicated history, was laden with tragic overtones.
Polish-Russian relations had been improving recently after being poisoned for decades over the slaying of some 22,000 officers and others in Katyn forest and in other areas.
About 4,000 Polish army officers were killed in the forest by Josef Stalin''s NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB, in 1940.
Russia never has formally apologised for the murders but Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin''s decision to attend a memorial ceremony earlier this week in the forest was seen as a gesture of goodwill toward reconciliation.
Kaczynski wasn''t invited to that event because Putin, as prime minister, had invited his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk.
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Delegation of Russian Orthodox foreign hierarchs arrives in Moscow
1. Wide of Moscow' s Sheremetyevo-2 airport
2. Wide interior or terminal building with priests walking up stairs
3. Mid of arrivals monitor
4. Wide of journalists waiting
5. Mid of Russian monks waiting
6. Wide of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad (left) and Metropolitan Laurus of New York and Eastern America (right) walking
7. Mid of press pan left to Metropolitan Laurus and Metropolitan Kirill
8. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad:
All those reasons, those historical reasons which divided the church are in the past now. There is no godless authorities, there is no more church in Russia that is not free, there are no more obstacles that can interfere in the relationship between Orthodox people living in Russia and abroad. That is why those historic developments that divided the Orthodox church are gone.
9. Mid of Russian state emblem
10. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Metropolitan Laurus of New York and Eastern America:
I think it is an event of great importance, of course. It is of special significance for the Russian Church, which has been divided for more than 80 years, that is why the event is very important that we will have to do here.
11. Metropolitan Kirill and Metropolitan Laurus speaking to media
12. Various of Metropolitan Laurus and Metropolitan Kirill walking down stairs
13. Mid shot cameramen outside
14. Mid of cars
15. Wide of cars driving away
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Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), a breakaway church-in-exile, arrived in Moscow on Tuesday ahead of a signing ceremony that will formalise its reunification with the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate.
Metropolitan Laurus, the New York-based leader of ROCOR, was welcomed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo-2 airport by Metropolitan Kirill, who is the Russian Orthodox Church's head of external relations.
The delegation was expected to take part in the signing of the Act on Canonical Communications between ROCOR and the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate,
It is an event of great importance, of course. It is of special significance for the Russian Church, which has been divided for more than 80 years, Metropolitan Laurus said upon arrival.
The signing ceremony, set to take place at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, has been scheduled for Thursday 17 May.
The emigre church split from the Patriarchate three years after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and cut all ties in 1927, after Patriarch Sergiy declared the Orthodox church's loyalty to the Soviet Union's communist government.
The Russian Orthodox Church had said that Sergiy's move was aimed at saving the church.
It disavowed Patriarch Sergiy's declaration this year.
Talk of re-establishing ties began after the Soviet collapse in 1991.
Both churches formed working groups after a 2003 visit to Russia by three emigre archbishops and a 2004 visit by Laurus, who came at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.
Talks between the Patriarchate and ROCOR continued for the next three years with an objective to eliminate the differences that impeded reunification.
At the end of 2006, the Synods of both Churches endorsed all the documents drafted for signing and agreed on the date, on which the Act on Canonical Communications is to be signed.
Under the provisions of the Act, ROCOR will become a self-governing agency of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate, with a large degree of autonomy in administrative, economic, proprietary, and legal affairs.
ROCOR will get one more benefit from the reunification - the official recognition by other national denominations of Eastern Orthodoxy.
It had no such recognition over the 80 years of its existence.
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Vladimir and Suzdal 1979 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an Austrian filmmaker while touring USSR in 1979.
It contains stock footage of the cities of Vladimir and Suzdal, in Vladimir Oblast in today's Russia: Vladimir (Cathedral of Saint Demetrius, Prince Vladimir Cathedral, Golden Gate, Church of the Intercession on the Nerl), Suzdal (Museum of Wooden Architecture, Church of the Smolensk, Temples of the Savior-Efimiev monastery, Rizopolozhensky monastery), and more.
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Russian Special Purpose || 604 Center | Vityaz | Maroon Berets
Special Forces Vityaz (604 Center Special Purpose) - Win Yourself , You Will Be Invincible.
The detachment was originally designed as anti-terrorist unit. Vityaz regularly conducts operations to counter-terrorism patrols on the border of Chechnya and the Caucasus In addition, soldiers are trained to prevent disorder in prisons. More than 70 soldiers of the detachment were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation for courage and heroism.
In the 70 years due to the increasing incidence of terrorism in Europe there is a need to have military units designed to perform a specific task responsible for the fight against terror. The Interior Ministry of the OCH, it was decided to establish a part of operative division of internal troops of the special units of permanent combat readiness, military personnel which would have special training to counter terrorism and other illegal activities.
In early 1978, work began on the formation and training of training company for special purposes (OCH). Set conscripts for this division was carried out from among the best athletes ODON solely on a voluntary basis.
The first operation, entrusted company, has been providing security at the Olympic Games in Moscow (1980).
In 1991 he was created a special purpose detachment Vityaz. During the formation of the experience gained in OCH and similar units in Russia.
The idea to take the exam on the right to wear the beret was also born in the Vityaz. The first commander Vityaz Sergey Lysyuk together with other officers developed criteria for special examinations, physical and tactical training, which are held in all divisions of the Interior troops so far.
Vityaz took part in the resolution of international conflicts that occurred on the territory of the former USSR. Together with a group A of the
in 1989 conducted a unique special operation to storm the temporary detention facility of Sukhumi, where riots broke out. In 1994-1996. participated in the disarmament of illegal armed formations in Chechnya. In 1996, the group participated in the battle near the village of Pervomaisky.
In 1999-2003. the group participated in many counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus. Also, Vityaz took an active part in special operations to eliminate the warlords in Chechnya.
In November 2002, Russian President Vladimir Putin at the opening ceremony of the monument to the soldiers of internal troops handed Gold Star of the Hero of Russian parents fighter detachment Vityaz Sergey Burnaeva, who died in the performance of military duty in Chechnya and award prizes posthumously.
In October 2002, a detachment Vityaz in conjunction with other special units of the Federal Security Service and the Interior Ministry of Russia took part in a special operation to eliminate the terrorists who seized hostages in the Dubrovka theater.
The detachment also participated in the anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya.
Vityaz former glory regained in the operation to force Georgia to peace in 2008,now Spetsnaz Vityaz fights against of terrorists in the North Caucasus.
They have the following tasks: Participation in the disarmament and the elimination of illegal armed groups, organized criminal groups, the suppression of mass disorders accompanied by armed violence, the withdrawal of the population illegally held weapons;
Participation in the suppression of acts of terrorism;
Participation in the removal of individuals who have seized hostages, important state facilities and special cargoes, facilities for communications, as well as buildings of state authorities;
Participation in ensuring security officials and citizens of the Russian Federation in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Detachments Of Special Purpose National Guard of Russia:
604 TSSN Vityaz, Moscow
7th OSN Rosich, Novocherkassk
12th OSN Ural, Nizhny Tagil
15th OSN Vyatich, Armavir
17th OSN Edelweiss, Mineralnye Vody
19th OSN Ermak, Novosibirsk
21th OSN Typhoon, Khabarovsk
23th OSN Obereg, Chelyabinsk
25th OSN Mercury, Smolensk
26th OSN Bars, Kazan
27th OSN Kuzbass, Kemerovo
28th OSN Ratnik, Arkhangelsk
29th OSN Bulat, Ufa
33th OSN Peresvet, Moscow
34th OSN, Grozny
35th OSN Rus, Simferopol
The Life And Death Of Yury of Moscow
Yuriy Danilovich, also known as Georgiy Danilovich (Юрий Данилович in Russian) (1281 – November 21, 1325) was Prince of Moscow (1303–1325) and Grand Prince of Vladimir (from 1318).
Yury was the oldest son of Daniel, the first prince of Moscow. His first official action was to defend Pereslavl-Zalessky against Grand Duke Andrew III. Upon Andrew's death the next year, Yury had to contend the title of Grand Duke of Vladimir with Mikhail of Tver. While the Tverian army besieged Pereslavl and Moscow itself, Mikhail went to the Golden Horde, where the Khan elevated him to the supreme position among Russian princes.
In the meantime, Yury arranged the murder of Prince Konstantin of Ryazan. This unlucky ruler had been captured by Yury's father back in 1302 and had been incarcerated in Moscow since then. While Ryazan was shocked by such a barbarity, Yury annexed the key Ryazanian fortress of Kolomna to Moscow Duchy. He also captured Mozhaisk, which formerly belonged to the princes of Smolensk. By 1314, Yury secured backing from the Metropolitan Peter and formed an alliance with Novgorod against Tver. Now, he felt strong enough to challenge Mikhail of Tver in the Horde.
In 1315 Yury went to the Golden Horde and, after spending two years there, constructed an alliance with Uzbeg Khan. Upon Yury's marriage to the khan's sister Konchaka, Uzbeg Khan deposed Mikhail and nominated Yury as the Grand Duke of Vladimir. Back in Russia with a large force of Mongols, Yury approached Tver. However, Yuri's army was defeated and his brother Boris and his wife were taken prisoners. Thereupon he fled to Novgorod and sued for peace. At that time his wife, still held in Tver as a hostage, died unexpectedly. Yury availed himself of the confusion that followed and announced to the khan that she had been poisoned on Mikhail's order. The khan summoned both princes to Sarai and, after a trial, had Mikhail executed.
Yury returned to Russia, hated by other princes and populace alike, in 1319. He was now entrusted with the task of gathering all-Russian tribute to the Horde. But Mikhail's son and successor, Dmitry the Terrible Eyes, still opposed him. In 1322, Dmitry, seeking revenge for his father's murder, went to Sarai and persuaded the khan that Yury had appropriated a large portion of the tribute due to the Horde. Yury was summoned to the Horde for a trial but, before any formal investigation, was killed by Dmitry. Eight months later, Dmitry was also executed in the Horde.
Shortly before his death, Yury led the army of Novgorod to fight the Swedes and founded a fort in the mouth of the Neva River. Upon signing the Treaty of Orekhovo in 1323, Yury continued eastward and conquered Velikiy Ustyug the same year.
The Life And Death Of Igor of Kiev
Igor I (Old East Slavic/Russian: Игорь; Ukrainian: Ігор; Old Norse: Ingvar) was a Varangian ruler of Kievan Rus' from 912 to 945.
nformation about Igor' comes mostly from the Primary Chronicle. This document has Igor as the son of Rurik, the first ruler of Kievan Rus':
6378–6387 (870–879). On his deathbed, Rurik bequeathed his realm to Oleg, who belonged to his kin, and entrusted to Oleg's hands his son Igor', for he was very young.
6388–6390 (880–882). Oleg set forth, taking with him many warriors from among the Varangians, the Chuds, the Slavs, the Merians and all the Krivichians. He thus arrived with his Krivichians before Smolensk, captured the city, and set up a garrison there. Thence he went on and captured Lyubech, where he also set up a garrison. He then came to the hills of Kiev, and saw how Askold and Dir reigned there. He hid his warriors in the boats, left some others behind, and went forward himself bearing the child Igor'. He thus came to the foot of the Hungarian hill, and after concealing his troops, he sent messengers to Askold and Dir, representing himself as a stranger on his way to Greece on an errand for Oleg and for Igor', the prince's son, and requesting that they should come forth to greet them as members of their race. Askold and Dir straightway came forth. Then all the soldiery jumped out of the boats, and Oleg said to Askold and Dir, You are not princes nor even of princely stock, but I am of princely birth. Igor' was then brought forward, and Oleg announced that he was the son of Rurik. They killed Askold and Dir, and after carrying them to the hill, they buried them there, on the hill now known as Hungarian, where the castle of Ol'ma now stands.
Igor' twice besieged Constantinople, in 941 and 944, and although Greek fire destroyed part of his fleet, he concluded with the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII a favourable treaty (945), the text of which the chronicle has preserved. In 913 and 944 the Rus' plundered the Arabs in the Caspian Sea during the Caspian expeditions of the Rus', but it remains unclear whether Igor' had anything to do with these campaigns.
Igor' was killed while collecting tribute from the Drevlians in 945. The Byzantine historian and chronicler, Leo the Deacon (born ca 950), describes how Igor met his death: They had bent down two birch trees to the prince's feet and tied them to his legs; then they let the trees straighten again, thus tearing the prince's body apart. Igor's wife, Olga of Kiev, avenged his death by punishing the Drevlians. The Primary Chronicle blames his death on his own excessive greed, indicating that he tried to collect tribute for a second time in a month. As a result, Olga changed the system of tribute gathering (poliudie) in what may be regarded as the first legal reform recorded in Eastern Europe.
Controversy
Drastically revising the chronology of the Primary Chronicle, Constantine Zuckerman argues that Igor actually reigned for three years, between summer 941 and his death in early 945. He explains the epic 33-year span of his reign in the chronicle by its author's faulty interpretation of Byzantine sources. Indeed, none of Igor's activity are recorded in the chronicle prior to 941.
Vladimir the Great
Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great was a prince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015.
Vladimir's father was prince Sviatoslav of the Rurik dynasty. After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered Rus'. In Sweden, with the help from his relative Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, he assembled a Varangian army and reconquered Novgorod from Yaropolk. By 980 Vladimir had consolidated the Kievan realm from modern-day Ukraine to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarian, Baltic, and Eastern nomads. Originally a follower of Slavic paganism, Vladimir converted to Orthodox Christianity in 988 and Christianized the Kievan Rus'.
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Владимир - Боголюбово / Vladimir - Bogolyubovo 13/03/2014 (timelapse 4x)
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Russian special forces hand to hand combat training and combat
Spetsnaz ( Center Special Purpose) - Win Yourself , You Will Be Invincible.
The detachment was originally designed as anti-terrorist unit. Vityaz regularly conducts operations to counter-terrorism patrols on the border of Chechnya and the Caucasus In addition, soldiers are trained to prevent disorder in prisons. More than 70 soldiers of the detachment were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation for courage and heroism.
In the 70 years due to the increasing incidence of terrorism in Europe there is a need to have military units designed to perform a specific task responsible for the fight against terror. The Interior Ministry of the OCH, it was decided to establish a part of operative division of internal troops of the special units of permanent combat readiness, military personnel which would have special training to counter terrorism and other illegal activities.
In early 1978, work began on the formation and training of training company for special purposes (OCH). Set conscripts for this division was carried out from among the best athletes ODON solely on a voluntary basis.
The first operation, entrusted company, has been providing security at the Olympic Games in Moscow (1980).
In 1991 he was created a special purpose detachment Vityaz. During the formation of the experience gained in OCH and similar units in Russia.
The idea to take the exam on the right to wear the beret was also born in the Vityaz. The first commander Vityaz Sergey Lysyuk together with other officers developed criteria for special examinations, physical and tactical training, which are held in all divisions of the Interior troops so far.
Vityaz took part in the resolution of international conflicts that occurred on the territory of the former USSR. Together with a group A of the
in 1989 conducted a unique special operation to storm the temporary detention facility of Sukhumi, where riots broke out. In 1994-1996. participated in the disarmament of illegal armed formations in Chechnya. In 1996, the group participated in the battle near the village of Pervomaisky.
In 1999-2003. the group participated in many counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus. Also, Vityaz took an active part in special operations to eliminate the warlords in Chechnya.
In November 2002, Russian President Vladimir Putin at the opening ceremony of the monument to the soldiers of internal troops handed Gold Star of the Hero of Russian parents fighter detachment Vityaz Sergey Burnaeva, who died in the performance of military duty in Chechnya and award prizes posthumously.
In October 2002, a detachment Vityaz in conjunction with other special units of the Federal Security Service and the Interior Ministry of Russia took part in a special operation to eliminate the terrorists who seized hostages in the Dubrovka theater.
The detachment also participated in the anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya.
Vityaz former glory regained in the operation to force Georgia to peace in 2008,now Spetsnaz Vityaz fights against of terrorists in the North Caucasus.
They have the following tasks: Participation in the disarmament and the elimination of illegal armed groups, organized criminal groups, the suppression of mass disorders accompanied by armed violence, the withdrawal of the population illegally held weapons;
Participation in the suppression of acts of terrorism;
Participation in the removal of individuals who have seized hostages, important state facilities and special cargoes, facilities for communications, as well as buildings of state authorities;
Participation in ensuring security officials and citizens of the Russian Federation in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Detachments Of Special Purpose National Guard of Russia:
604 TSSN Vityaz, Moscow
7th OSN Rosich, Novocherkassk
12th OSN Ural, Nizhny Tagil
15th OSN Vyatich, Armavir
17th OSN Edelweiss, Mineralnye Vody
19th OSN Ermak, Novosibirsk
21th OSN Typhoon, Khabarovsk
23th OSN Obereg, Chelyabinsk
25th OSN Mercury, Smolensk
26th OSN Bars, Kazan
27th OSN Kuzbass, Kemerovo
28th OSN Ratnik, Arkhangelsk
29th OSN Bulat, Ufa
33th OSN Peresvet, Moscow
34th OSN, Grozny
35th OSN Rus, Simferopol
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