ТУ4-2630 и ПД1 (Тёсово-Нетыльский) / TU4-2630 and PD1. Tesovo narrow-gauge railway
Тепловоз ТУ4-2630 и дрезина ПД1. Тёсовская узкоколейная железная дорога. Музей Тёсовской УЖД. Тёсово-Нетыльский, Новгородская область, Россия. 2014. (с) Воздух Свободы.
TU4-2630 diesel locomotive and PD1 railcar. Tesovo narrow-gauge railroad. Tesovo narrow-gauge railway museum. Tesovo-Nytelskiy, Novgorod region. Russia. 2014. Mikhail Petrishin / Igor Bekirov.
Russian TEM15 Locos 81012-81015 Switching the Sta Cruz del Sur Stock at Camaguey
Russian TEM15 Locos 81012 and 81015 switching the romanian boxcar coaches of the Santa Cruz del Sur service at Camaguey
Locomotoras TEM15 Rusas 81012 y 81015 realizando maniobras en Camaguey con los coches casillas rumanas del tren de Santa Cruz del Sur
2М62-0823 (2М62-0155) (Мурмаши) / 2M62-0823 [2M62-0155] (RZD, Murmashi)
Тепловоз 2М62-0823 (2М62-0155). Перегон Пяйве - Мурмаши, участок Кола - Никель-Мурманский - Печенга, Мурманская область, Россия. 2013. Михаил Петришин / Игорь Бекиров (Воздух Свободы).
2M62-0823 [2M62-0155] diesel locomotive. Pyaive - Murmashi stretch, Kola - Nikel'-Murmanskiy - Pechenga line, Murmansk region, Russia. 2013. Mikhail Petrishin / Igor Bekirov (FreeAir).
Pendolino passes HMVY & SRHS spring excursion train @ Airaksela
S 76 Kuopiosta Helsinkiin kohtaa HMVY:n ja SRHS:n kevätretkijunan Karttulan Airakselassa.
S 76 from Kuopio to Helsinki meets HMVY's and SRHS's spring excursion train at Airaksela station in Karttula.
Bulgarian Artists - Vladimir Dimitrov - The Master / Владимир Димитров - Майстора (1882-1960)
Vladimir Dimitrov - The Master (Владимир Димитров - Майстора) was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the leading Bulgarian artists of the 20th century. From a poor family, he left school at an early age and worked at various jobs before becoming a clerk (1898–1903) at the Kyustendil District Court, where he drew portraits of its employees. In 1903 he entered the School of Drawing in Sofia and, while there, began to be called ‘Maistora’ (‘Master’), a respectful title in acknowledgement of his talent. He served as a painter for the Bulgarian army during the Balkan Wars (1912–13) and World War I, executing landscapes and genre paintings such as A Rest from the March (1917). He later taught and travelled, visiting Rome in 1922, where he met the American collector John Crane who bought his entire stock of paintings and signed a four-year contract with him for production of his work. Maistora returned to Bulgaria and for more than 20 years lived in the village of Shishkovci, near Kyustendil, from there sending all of his paintings to the Ministry of Education. He drew and painted exclusively portraits and self-portraits, employing pencil, oil, India ink or watercolour (Portrait of N. Checklarov, 1910; Self-portrait, 1913). His work is a combination of the traditions of Bulgarian folk art and Post-Impressionism; from the latter he developed the use of clean colours, an expressive deformation of nature and a contrast of warm and cool tones in the modelling. His models, agricultural workers and pretty village women, are usually placed in static and frontal poses close to the picture plane and are framed behind by decorative friezes of fruit and flowers (Bulgarian Madonna, c. 1932; Women Reapers from Shishkovci, c. 1935). In 1982 UNESCO celebrated the 100th anniversary of his birth. There is a Dimitrov-Maistora Museum in Kyustendil.
Music: Pancho Vladigerov - Improvisation for Piano
TEP70-0320 passes the Kehra railroad crossing
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The Battle of Moscow (Russian: Битва за Москву, translit. Bitva za Moskvu) was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union.
The German strategic offensive, named Operation Typhoon (German: Unternehmen Taifun), called for two pincer offensives, one to the north of Moscow against the Kalinin Front by the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, simultaneously severing the Moscow–Leningrad railway, and another to the south of Moscow Oblast against the Western Front south of Tula, by the 2nd Panzer Army, while the 4th Army advanced directly towards Moscow from the west. According to Andrew Roberts, Hitler's offensive towards the Soviet capital was nothing less than an 'all-out attack': It is no exaggeration to state that the outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance during this massive attack.Initially, the Soviet forces conducted a strategic defence of the Moscow Oblast by constructing three defensive belts, deploying newly raised reserve armies, and bringing troops from the Siberian and Far Eastern Military Districts. As the German offensives were halted, a Soviet strategic counter-offensive and smaller-scale offensive operations forced the German armies back to the positions around the cities of Oryol, Vyazma and Vitebsk, and nearly surrounded three German armies.
It was a major setback for the Germans, the end of the idea of a fast German victory in the USSR. Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was excused as commander of OKH, with Hitler appointing himself as Germany's supreme military commander.