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The Villa of Z.I. Yusupova in Pavlovsk Road (its present address is the house no. 12) was given for the summer for the A.Ya. Vaganova Choreographic School. The future stars of the Russian ballet Galina Ulanova, Marina Semyenova ... | | The Villa of Z.I. Yusupova in Pavlovsk Road (its present address is the house no. 12) was given for the summer for the A.Ya. Vaganova Choreographic School. The future stars of the Russian ballet Galina Ulanova, Marina Semyenova, Tatiana Vyacheslova, Natalia Dudinskaya, Vakhtang Chebukiani, Konstantin Sergeyev, Olga Iordan, their famous teacher A.Ya. Vaganova and others had a rest and continued classes there.
Persons Chabukiani Vakhtang Mikhailovich Dudinskaya Natalia Mikhailovna Iordan Olga Genrikhovna Semyenova, Marina Timofeyevna Sergeev Konstantin Mikhailovich Ulanova Galina Sergeevna Vaganova Agrippina Yakovlevna Vecheslova Tatyana Mikhailovna
Addresses Pavlovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town, house 12
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The Centre of the Communist Party Education, where 6-month courses of Marxism-Leninism for functionaries of the Communist Party, Young Commuinist League and Trade Union were organized, was opened on S.M ... | | The Centre of the Communist Party Education, where 6-month courses of Marxism-Leninism for functionaries of the Communist Party, Young Commuinist League and Trade Union were organized, was opened on S.M. Kirov's initiative in the Reserve Palace and the Palace of Paley. S.M. Kirov, the First Secretary of the Leningrad Oblast Committee of VKP (b), often visited the Centre.
Persons Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich
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January. The writer Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov settled in Detskoye Selo. His addresses: 20 Kolpinskaya Street, 14 Malaya Street, and 9 Moskovskaya Street from 1929 untill 1941 (the memorial plaque was set here in 1961) ... | | January. The writer Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov settled in Detskoye Selo. His addresses: 20 Kolpinskaya Street, 14 Malaya Street, and 9 Moskovskaya Street from 1929 untill 1941 (the memorial plaque was set here in 1961). Here the writer finished the story "Stranniki" ("Pilgrims"), worked on the manuscript of "Yemelyan Pugachov", finished the novel "Ugryum-reka" ("The Ugryum River") in 1932. In Detskoye Selo in July of 1927 the writer got married Klavdia Mikhailovna Shvedova, who became his faithful friend for whole further life. On Fridays V.Ya. Shishkov's house was visited by the wide circle of the Detskoye Selo intelligentsia: writers A. Tolstoy, A. Bely, O.D. Forsh, critic R. Ivanov-Razumnik, the painter K. Petrov-Vodkin, the publisher P. Soykin, the scientist M. Bonch-Bruyevich, composers Yu. Shaporin and G. Popov, the singer I. Yershov and many other representatives of the art intelligentsia of Leningrad. The summer. The painter K.S. Petrov-Vodkin settled in the first floor of the Lyceum building. In 1928 the painter finished to paint the picture "Smert komissara" ("The Death of the Comissar"), on 4 October 1930 Petrov-Vodkin was awarded the title of the Honoured Artist of RSFSR. K. Petrov-Vodkin lived in Detskoye Selo untill 1936. The first edition of the "epoch-making" Tsarskoye Selo book "Gorod muz" ("The Town of Muses") by Erikh Fiedorovich Gollerbakch was published. The literary critic V.A. Manuylov, the author of books about M.Yu. Lermontov, rented a room in the former house of the Gumilyovs in Malaya Street.
Persons Bely Andrey (real name Bugaev Boris Nikolaevich) Bonch-Bruevich Mikhail Alexandrovich Ershov Ivan Vasilievich Forsh Olga Dmitrievna Hollerbach Erich Fedorovich Ivanov-Razumnik (real name Razumnik Vasilievich Ivanov) Manuylov Viktor Andronikovich Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich Popov Gavriil Nikolaevich Shaporin Yury Alexandrovich Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Shvedova, Klavdia Mikhaylovna Soykin Peter Petrovich Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich
Addresses Malaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 14 Malaya Street/Pushkin, town Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 9 Pushkin, town
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May. The writer Aleksay Nikolayevich Tolstoy, his wife, the poet Natalya Vasilyevna Krandiyevskaya, sons Nikita (a future physicist) and Dmitry (a future Composer), Fiedor (a son of Krandiyevskaya), Marianna (a daughter of Tolstoy) ... | | May. The writer Aleksay Nikolayevich Tolstoy, his wife, the poet Natalya Vasilyevna Krandiyevskaya, sons Nikita (a future physicist) and Dmitry (a future Composer), Fiedor (a son of Krandiyevskaya), Marianna (a daughter of Tolstoy), Anastasiya Romanovna (the mother of Krandiyevskaya), Maria Leontyevna Turgeneva (an aunt of Tolstoy) and Yulia Ivanovna Uibo (a housekeeper in the Tolstoys' house) settled in the house no.8 in Moskovskaya Street. Ivan Vasilyevich Yershov, People's Artist of the USSR, the great master of the vocal and stage art, settled in the house of Tepper de Fergyusson and he lived in Pushkin Town untill 1941.
Persons Ershov Ivan Vasilievich Krandievskaya-Tolstaya Natalia Vasilievna Krandiyevskaya (nee Tarkhova), Anastasiya Romanovna Krandiyevsky, Fyedor Tolstaya, Marianna Alekseyevna Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy Nikita Alexeevich Tolstoy, Dmitry Alekseyevich Turgeneva, Maria Leontyevna Uybo, Yulia Ivanovna
Addresses Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 8/13
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy with his family moved into the house of Vuich located in 6 Proletarskaya Street (now it is Tserkovnaya (Church) Street). In this house Tolstoy worked on the novels "Pyotr I" (Peter the First") ... | | Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy with his family moved into the house of Vuich located in 6 Proletarskaya Street (now it is Tserkovnaya (Church) Street). In this house Tolstoy worked on the novels "Pyotr I" (Peter the First"), "Chernoye zoloto" ("the Black Gold"), the trilogy of novels "Khozhdeniye po mukam", consisting of "Sestry" (“Sisters”), "Vosemnadtsaty god" (“The Year 1918”), and "Khmuroe utro" (“A Gloomy Morning”), wrote the story "Gobelen Marii-Antuanetti" ("The Tapestry of Marie-Antoinette"), the tale "Zolotoy Klyuchik" ("The Golden key"), the libretto for Yu. Shaporin's opera "Dekabristi" ("Decembrists"), started the work on "Oborona Tsaritsina" ("The Defence of Tsaritsin"). He lived and worked here untill his departure to Moscow in 1938. The house of A.N. Tolstoy, the centre of the cultural life of Detskoye Selo of the 1930s, was visited by writers V.A. Rozhdestvensky, V.M. Inber, V.Ya. Shishkiv, O.D. Forsh, I.A. Andronikov, L.V. Nikulin, B.A. Lavrenev, M.M. Zoshchenko, the literary critic P.Ye. Shchegolev, artists G.S. Ulanova, Ye.I. Time, V.I. Kachalov, N.V. Pevtsov, M.F. Monakhov, the painter K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, composers Yu.A. Shaporin, V.M. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, D.D. Shostakovich, conductors A.V. Gauk, A.Sh. Melik-Pashayev, scientists A.F. Ioffe, A.M. Bonch-Bruyevich, L.D. Landau. During 1933-1934 A.N. Tolstoy was a deputy of the Detskoye Selo District Soviet, his articles were often published on pages of the district newspaper "Bolshevistskoye slovo" ("Bolsheviks' Word"). Repairing excavators was mastered in the Stream Locomotive Repair Base named after Uritsky (PPRMZ) under the direction of the talented engineer Vladimir Ivanovich Shkvokhin, who became the director of plants "Remputmash" of the Ministry of Transport.
Persons Andronnikov Irakly Luarsabovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky Valerian Mikhailovich Bonch-Bruevich Mikhail Alexandrovich Forsh Olga Dmitrievna Gauk Alexander Vasilievich Inber Vera Mikhailovna Ioffe Abram Fedorovich Kachalov (the real surname is Shverubovich), Vasily Ivanovich Landau Lev Davydovich Lavrenev Boris Andreevich Melik-Pashayev, Aleksandr Shamilyevich Monakhov Nikolay Fedorovich Nikulin Lev Veniaminovich Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich Pevtsov Illarion Nikolaevich Rozhdestvensky Vsevolod Alexandrovich Shaporin Yury Alexandrovich Shchegolev Pavel Eliseevich Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Shkvokhin, Vladimir Ivanovich Shostakovich Dmitry Dmitrievich Time Elizaveta Ivanovna Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich Ulanova Galina Sergeevna Zoschenko Mikhail Mikhailovich
Addresses Tserkovnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 6
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The building of the Palace Greenhouse was given to the Leningrad Chemical-Engineering Institute of Dairy ... | | The building of the Palace Greenhouse was given to the Leningrad Chemical-Engineering Institute of Dairy Industry.
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Valeryan Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, a composer and musicologist, the author of memoirs about the cultural life of Detskoye Selo of his time, lived in a flat placed in the semi-circular part sided with the Church wing of the Catherine Palace ... | Valeryan Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, a composer and musicologist, the author of memoirs about the cultural life of Detskoye Selo of his time, lived in a flat placed in the semi-circular part sided with the Church wing of the Catherine Palace.
Persons Bogdanov-Berezovsky Valerian Mikhailovich
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January. The science-fiction writer Aleksandr Romanovich Belyayev, the author of novels "Zvezda KETs" ("The Star of KETs"), "Chelovek-Amfibiya" ("The Man-amphibian"), "Golova profssora Douelya" ("The Head of Professor Dawel") and many others ... | | | | | | | hidden | | |
The experimental snowplough train designed by Gavrichenko was made in the "Rempuymash" Plant. Its mass production was begun at the Tula City Machine Plant of the People's Commissariat of Transport ... | The experimental snowplough train designed by Gavrichenko was made in the "Rempuymash" Plant. Its mass production was begun at the Tula City Machine Plant of the People's Commissariat of Transport.
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The composer B.V. Asafyev, who lived in the country house (24 Novaya Street) from 1926 until 1934), composed the music for his ballet "Bakhchisaraysky fontan" ("The Fountain of Bakhchisaray") in Detskoye Selo ... | | The composer B.V. Asafyev, who lived in the country house (24 Novaya Street) from 1926 until 1934), composed the music for his ballet "Bakhchisaraysky fontan" ("The Fountain of Bakhchisaray") in Detskoye Selo.
Persons Asafyev Boris Vladimirovich
Addresses Pushkin, town
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The famous publisher P.P. Soykin worked as a proof-reader in the district printing-house (the house no. 8 in Leontyevskaya Street). P.P. Soykin was burried in Kuzminskoye Cemetery in 1938, his grave is preserved ... | The famous publisher P.P. Soykin worked as a proof-reader in the district printing-house (the house no. 8 in Leontyevskaya Street). P.P. Soykin was burried in Kuzminskoye Cemetery in 1938, his grave is preserved.
Persons Soykin Peter Petrovich
Addresses Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town
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1 January. The balloon "Osoaviakhim - 1" was risen at a height of twenty two hundred metres; the Tsarskoye Selo native A.B. Vasenko, a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas Gymnasium, a worker of the Pavlovsk upper-air observatory ... | | 1 January. The balloon "Osoaviakhim - 1" was risen at a height of twenty two hundred metres; the Tsarskoye Selo native A.B. Vasenko, a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas Gymnasium, a worker of the Pavlovsk upper-air observatory, was a member of the crew. The finish of the expedition was tragic, stratonauts have perished and they were burried as heroes in the Kremlin Wall in Moscow. Late July. The English writer Herbert Wells visited A. Tolstoy's house in Detskoye Selo and presented his book "Borba mirov" ("The War of the Worlds") to Tolstoy. 1 December. S.M. Kirov was killed in the Smolny Institute building. On 1 December 1935 the monument to S.M. Kirov was opened near the Reserve Palace (it was destroyed during World War II). The Cathedtral of St. Sophia was closed for believers. It began working again in 1989.
Persons Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich Vasenko, Andrey Bogdanovich Wells Herbert George
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August. A.N Tolstoy broke off his relations with N.V. Krandiyevskaya and she has gone to Leningrad with sons. August. Detskoye Selo was visited by delegates of the 15th International Congress on Physiology, taken place In the Tauride Palace; I ... | | | | | | | hidden | | |
2 November. The Detskoye Selo Bread-Baking Plant of the First Leningrad State Bread-Baking Trust was put into operation in Moscow ... | 2 November. The Detskoye Selo Bread-Baking Plant of the First Leningrad State Bread-Baking Trust was put into operation in Moscow Road.
Addresses Moskovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town
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10 February. The Central Executive Committee of the USSR published the resolution "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of great Russian poet A.S ... | | 10 February. The Central Executive Committee of the USSR published the resolution "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin the Central Executive Committee decrees: to rename Detskoye Selo Town in Pushkin Town". This decision was influenced by writers A.N. Tolstoy, V.Ya. Shishkov, the arts critic E.F. Gollerbakh and the cultural community of Detskoye Selo. The monument of A.S. Pushkin (created by the sculptor L.A. Bernshtam in 1911), placed in the Lyceum Hall before, was installed opposite the Egyptian Gates on the main road of the entry in the town in 1938. The jubilee exhibition was opened in halls of the Catherine Palace. 25 August. It is the date of the founding of the 20th Aircraft Repair Plant of the Navy Aviation of the Navy of Russia located in Krasnoye Selo Road. Two hundred children from the Spanish republicans' families arrived in Pushkin Town. Firstly sixty childtren of the age before seven years old lived in Zhukovsko-Volynsky (the house no. 2), in 1940 they were joined with senior children in the house no. 6 in Pushkinskaya Street. The Spanish children's home were leaded by the experienced teachers M.I. Mitskevich (the headmaster) and P.P. Lazarev ( a vice-principal).
Persons Bernstam Leopold-Bernhard (Leopold Adolfovich) Hollerbach Erich Fedorovich Lazarev, P.P. Mickiewicz, M.I. Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich
Addresses Pushkinskaya Street/Pushkin, town Pushkin, town
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3 March. The district newspaper "Bolshestskoye slovo" ("Bolshevik Word") was founded, on 3 February 1953 it was renamed the newspaper "Vpered" ("Forward") and on 1993 it was renamed "Tsarskoselskaya Gazeta" ("The Tsarskoye Selo Newspaper") ... | | 3 March. The district newspaper "Bolshestskoye slovo" ("Bolshevik Word") was founded, on 3 February 1953 it was renamed the newspaper "Vpered" ("Forward") and on 1993 it was renamed "Tsarskoselskaya Gazeta" ("The Tsarskoye Selo Newspaper"). April. The writer Aleksey Tolstoy moved from Detskoye Selo to Moscow and handed down his house in Proletarskaya street to Leningrad writers for opening the House of the Creative Work of Literary Persons. I.G. Erenburg, B.A. Lavrenev, N.S. Tikhonov, K.I. Chukovsky, N.N. Nikitin, M.M. Zoshcheko, V.A. Kaverin, B.M. Eyhenbaum, A.R. Belyayev, Yu.N. Tynyanov, A.P. Shteyn, M.P. Lozinsky, the historian E.V. Tarle rested and worked here. The summer. The fantast-writer A.P. Belyayev with his family dwelled again in the house behind the Cinema "Avangard" in 1 May Street (now it is Konyushennaya Street).
Persons Belyaev Alexander Romanovich Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich Eichenbaum Boris Mikhailovich Erenburg, Iliya Grigoryevich Kaverin Veniamin Alexandrovich Lavrenev Boris Andreevich Lozinsky Mikhail Leonidovich Nikitin Nikolay Nikolaevich Shtein, Aleksandr Petrovich Tarle Evgeny Viktorovich Tikhonov Nikolay Semenovich Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich Tynyanov Yury Nikolaevich Zoschenko Mikhail Mikhailovich
Addresses Konyushennaya Street/Pushkin, town
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This year the palace-museums of Pushkin Town were visited by 1,790,000 people; the budget of the museum was Rb 2 million. Evening excursions with the electric light were organised in the Alexander Palace on the initiative of its director A ... | | This year the palace-museums of Pushkin Town were visited by 1,790,000 people; the budget of the museum was Rb 2 million. Evening excursions with the electric light were organised in the Alexander Palace on the initiative of its director A.M. Kuchumov. Main halls of the palace welcomed guests with crystal chandeliers lights and flashes of lamps placed in flower decoration. The Maple Lounge, where was the pink highlight of cornices, was the most unusual. The Puskin Town Executive Committee Comission for Pushkin's places protection, headed by the writer V.Ya. Shishkov, introduced the celebration of the poet's birthday near the monument in the Lyceum Garden on 6 June. This tradition survives today. N.A. Trofimova and Ye.N. Matveyeva, research workers of the Alexander Palace, went out to the front area of battles with "White Finns" for collecting exhibits of the exhibition "The Defence of Petrograd - Leningrad", which was being in the palace untill the occupation of 1941.
Persons Kuchumov Anatoly Mikhailovich Matveyeva, E.N. Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Trofimova, N.A.
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March. The former study of A.S. Pushkin, in the house of Kitayev, was vacated from tenants and the appartment-museum of the poet was opened in it according to the decision of the Executive Committee of Pushkin Town. 22 June ... | | March. The former study of A.S. Pushkin, in the house of Kitayev, was vacated from tenants and the appartment-museum of the poet was opened in it according to the decision of the Executive Committee of Pushkin Town. 22 June. The Great Patriotic War was began. Military - political headquaretrs for the town defence under the direction of F.I. Babaikin, a secretary of the district committee of VKP(b), was organized, the mobilization was began. 27 June. The Leningrad Executive Committee adopted the decision about the involving of all able-bodied citizens, from 16 to 50 -year- old men and from 16 to 50 -year-old women, for the working duty, working units for the digging of trenches and the anti-aircraft defence detachments were formed in the all organization of Pushkin Town. 30 June. The evacuation commission was organized at the Pushkin Executive Committee, this commission implemented the evacuation of town dwellers ( more than 20000 men were evacuated from the Pushkin District in all), industrial works, institutes, palace-museums of Pushkin Town ( 17870 museum articles were removed from 30 June untill 22 August). The end of June. The NKVD administration (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) of the Leningrad region and Leningrad raised the 76th and 77th destroyer battalions of NKVD, under the command of NKVD Lieutenant N.M. Muzychenko and Border Guards Captain V.E. Lomakin (420 soldiers in all), for detaining the spies and saboteurs at town streets. 5 July. Recruiment commission began to select the volunteers for the Home Guards detachments. The 2nd rifle battalion having numbers about 800 soldiers, under the command of Reserve Captain S.P. Borisov, a worker of the military recruiment office, was included in the 2nd Home Guards division of Leningrad. 3043 men were conscripted and took part in the battle of Leningrad and at other fronts in the first war months. Pushkin Town gave more than 4000 warriors in all for the front. 23 July. The Pushkin Town partisan detachment was organized in number 60 men. I.V. Emelyanov, a deputy chairman of the Pushkin Town Executive Committee, was appointed as a commander. 7 August. By this date, at the line Antropshino-Kobralovo-Shushary-Aleksandrovskaya having 10 kilometres long, the anti-tank ditches of 6100 metres long were dug, 820 places for anti-tank obstacles were prepared, 10 pits for the anti-tank emplacements were dug, 11 anti-gas shelters were constructed and hundreds of anti-aircraft defence headquarters were formed. 12 August. In Moskovskaya Slavyanka settlement the 261st OPAB battalion was formed from the volunteers of the Kyibyshev district of Leningrad, this battalion, together with the 168th infantry division under the command of Colonel A.L. Bondarev, stood firm at the defence line Pushkin-Slutsk-Fyodorovskoye - Antropshino. Bondarev, the commander of the division, was awarded the Order of Red Banner for courage and bravery that were showed by him during the battle of Leningrad. August – September. The editorial office of the newspaper of the 1st Kirov Home Guards division was placed at the former house of the writer A.N. Tolstoy in Proletarskaya Street, about 30 Leningrad writers, so- called "writer platoont", were employees of this editorial office. 3-17 September. The Repair-Mechanics Plant was evacuated into Leningrad where the workers of this plant repaired the military machinery, including the manufacturing of the chassis to the legendary rocket launcher "Katyusha", during the seige of Leningrad. 10 September. The 237th infantry division was concentrated in Pushkin Town for the battle with the enemy units: the 296th infantry division and SS division "Polizei" . 12 September. The enemy offencive began in the direction of Slutsk-Kolpino. 14 September. The central part of the Pushkin Town - Gostiny Dvor, the Executive Committee building, Cathedral Square - was subjected to the intensive artillery fire. 15 September. The 76th and 77th destroyer batallions were united into the 77th combined destroyer batallion uder the command of I.A. Yakovlev, head of the Pushkin Town police station, according to the order of NKVD of Leningrad. The Aleksandrovskaya Station was captured by the 269th infantry division and SS division "Polizei". 16 September. The troops of the 55th Army leaved Pushkin Town and Slutsk Town, in the view of the encirclement threat, and retreated at the line Bilshoye Kuzmino, Shushary, Moskovskaya Slavyanka, sovkhoz "Detskoselsky", our troops were at these positions for the all time of the siege. 17 September. The occupation of Pushkin Town was began. September. The German administration registered all population at the occupied territory. The part of the man population of Pushkin Town was moved into the concentration camp in Gatchina. September - October. The massacre of jewish people of Pushkin Town, 800 jewish people were executed by shooting in the Alexander Park, was organized by the Nazi invaders. Communists, members of Komsomol (the Young Communist League) were executed by hanging (gallows was placed at the corner of Moskovskaya Street and Konyushennaya Street, lamps on Sadovaya Street and Oktyabrsky Boulevard were used too). During the occupation 9514 people starved to death, 6268 people were executed by shooting, 1105 people were hung, 1214 people died after tortures, 17968 people were taken out for concentration camps and Nazi hard labour.
Persons Babaykin, F.I. Bondarev, A.L. Lomakin, V.Ye. Muzychenko, I.M. Yakovlev, I.A. Yemelyanov, I.V.
Addresses Konyushennaya Street/Pushkin, town Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town Oktyabrsky Boulevard/Pushkin, town Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town
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The autumn - winter. All working people were registered by the German occupation authority. The registrations and the forced evacuations of Pushkin Town citizens to the rear regions were conducted permanently ... | | The autumn - winter. All working people were registered by the German occupation authority. The registrations and the forced evacuations of Pushkin Town citizens to the rear regions were conducted permanently.
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6 January. The science fiction writer A.R. Belyayev died from starvation in occupied Pushkin Town, he was burried in a common grave in the Kazanskoye Semetery ... | | 6 January. The science fiction writer A.R. Belyayev died from starvation in occupied Pushkin Town, he was burried in a common grave in the Kazanskoye Semetery. On 1 November 1968 the monument to the writer was opened in the cemetery, in 1982 his wife Margarita Konstantinovna Belyayeva (Mangushevskaya) was burried there. 28-29 January. Teachers and students of the Pushkin Agricultural Institute, stayed in blockade Leningrad, were sent on "The Road of Life" to Vologda City and then to the Altay Kray where they continued studies. August - September. The 250th Spanish "Blue Division" (it was named according to the colour of uniform) arrived to Pushkin Town for the realization of the occupation regime.
Persons Belyaev Alexander Romanovich Belyayeva (Mangushevskaya), Margarita Konstantinovna
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13 January. Igor Rybakov, a fearless member of an underground organization, graduate of the secondary school of Pushkin Town, was executed by firing squard in Gatchina. 16 January ... | | 13 January. Igor Rybakov, a fearless member of an underground organization, graduate of the secondary school of Pushkin Town, was executed by firing squard in Gatchina. 16 January. After previous powerful bombardment, the 110th infantry corps, under the command of Major General I.V. Khazov, began the offencive from the Pulkovo Heights to the front line near Pushkin Town; the corps included three divisions: the 56th division under the command of General С.М.Bunkov, the 72th division under the command of Colonel I.I.Yastrebov and the 85th division under the command of Colonel K.V. Vvedensky. Enemy emplacements were destroyed by bombing by pilots of the 275th fighter plane division. 17 January. The 56th division captured Aleksandrovka, the defence center, and cut the Warsaw Railway. The 59th infantry regiment under the command of the Hero of the Soviet Union Kh.M. Krasnokutsky struck the main shock. 24 January. The 213th infantry regiment of the 56th infantry division under the commnad of Colonel А.К.Ryabushev was the first that entered Pushkin Town at 2:40 a.m. Lieutenant I.E. Sviridyuk, aide-de-camp of the regiment commander, rose the Red Banner above the Lyceum arch. Pushkin Town was liberated from the Nazi envaders. ""Troops of the Leningrad front, continuing the successful offencive, today, 24 January, as the result of the turning manoevre and swift attack to the front, captured Pushkin Town (Tsarskoye Selo) and Pavlovsk Town (Slutsk). Troops under the command of Colonel General Maslennikov, Major General Khazov, Major General Bunkov, Major General Yastrebov, Colonel Vvedensky, artillerymen of Major General Mikhalkin, artillerymen of Colonel Maslovsky and members of tank crews of Lieutenant Colonel Gryazeshvili were distinguished during the the battles for the capture of Pushkin Town and Pavlovsk Town. In commemoration of the victory, detachments and units , that were the most distinguished during the battles, are recommended for conferring the titles "Pushkinskaya" and "Pavlovskaya" and for awarding Orders." (From the order of Supreme Commander-in-Chief. 24 January 1944) 24 January, 9 p.m. 124-gun salute with twelve salvos took place in Moscow devoted to the libaration of Pushkin Town and Pavlovsk Town. 10 March. The work for the restoration of the water supply system and purification plant of Puskin Town was began under the management of Dmitry Ivanovich Trinkov. 13 April. Lieutenant General Ivan Vasilyevich Khazov, who was the commander of the 110th infantry corps which liberated Pushkin Town and Pavlovsk Town, was deadly wounded during the army operation near Pskov City. His dying wish was to bury his body in Pushkin Town and this wish was realized. The grave of I.V. Khazov was placed in the Alexander Park near the Chinese Theatre. 8 May. Writer Aleksei Tolstoy, who came in Pushkin Town on business of the Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, visited Pushkin Town and his home at Proletarskaya Street for the last time in his life. According to the Extraordinary Commission, the damage, inflicted to the town, was estimated at Rb 5,4 billion (the estimating was made on the basis of prices of 1944): 1555 houses were completely destroyed, 1413 houses were damaged by bombardments, about 500 houses were preserved ( the total living space was 27000 square metres). About 59 citizens were in Pushkin Town on the first liberation day. 6 June. The ceremonial meeting, devoted to the anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin, was held in the Palace of Culture building . Many poets and writers made speeches, A.A. Akhmatova was among them. The memorial room of A.S. Pushkin was opened in the Lyceum. 11 June. The Track Repair-Mechanics Plant began to work again on the basis of the restoring trains which having come. Simultaneously, the restoration of the production basis was began. By 1953 at the Track Repair-Mechanics Plant the repair of electric-ballasters and snowplough machines was arraged, the electric power stations on the basis of the caterpillar tractor DT-54, the special trains for the transporting of the long railway tracks, self-unloading goods trucks SP-4 and other railway machinery were manufactured . 6 August. Air Observation Military School (now it is the Order of Red Star Pushkin Military Institute of Electronics of Space Troops named after Marshal of Aviation E.Y. Savitsky), was re-deployed into the barracks of the military town in Sophia Town in Pushkin Town according to the order of the Leningrad Military Region Command. October. The first schools for 970 pupils, one clinic, one day nursery for 80 children, 3 shops, 3 canteens were opened in Pushkin Town after the war, 289 houses were occupied. By 1946 Pushkin Town had a population of about 3000. 26 November. The first issue of the newspaper "The Bolshevik Word" , resumed after the liberation of the town, was published.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Bunkov, Stepan Mikhaylovich Gryazeshvili Khazov, Ivan Vasilyevich Maslovsky, Georgy Nikolayevich Mikhalkin, Mikhail Semyenovich Ryabushev, A.K. Rybakov, Igor Sviridyuk, I.Ye. Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich Trinkov, Dmitry Ivanovich Vvedensky, Konstantin Vladimirovich Yastrebov, Ilya Ivanovich
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February. The restored city hospital for 120 beds began to work in Pavlovsk Road (now it is the building of the tubercolosis hospital). 15 February. The regular lessons began at the Pushkin Agricultural Institute with students who returned from ... | | February. The restored city hospital for 120 beds began to work in Pavlovsk Road (now it is the building of the tubercolosis hospital). 15 February. The regular lessons began at the Pushkin Agricultural Institute with students who returned from the evacuation. 40 students in all began to learn. June. The monument to Pushkin, that was hid at the shelter, was put on the former place in the Lyceum Garden. 17 June. The Catherine Park and the Alexander Park were opened for visitors after the titanic work which was done on the clearing of parks from mines and rubbish.
Addresses Pavlovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town
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April. Mortar man - Lieutenant Abram Yakovlevich Shalyt, a pre-war citizen of Detskoye Selo, returned from the front and began to work as a correspondent of the district newspaper "The Bolshevik Word" ... | April. Mortar man - Lieutenant Abram Yakovlevich Shalyt, a pre-war citizen of Detskoye Selo, returned from the front and began to work as a correspondent of the district newspaper "The Bolshevik Word", he worked at this newspaper for more than forty years. 1 September. 7 secondary schools having 4,140 pupils worked in Pushkin Town. The Pushkin Town bread-baking plant resumed its work, now it is JSC "Mariental". Poet Sergei Vasilyevich Pogorelovsky, the author of more than sixty books of poems for children, settled at the house no. 28 in Novaya Street (1910-1995 ).
Persons Pogorelovsky, Sergey Vasilyevich Shalyt, Abram Yakovlevich
Addresses Novaya Street/Pushkin, town
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Ensemle of Railway Station Square was constructed to the design of architects E.A. Levinson and A.A.Grushke (Stalin Prize of ... | | | | | | | hidden | | |
The Higher Navy Engineering College was opened on the basis of the former barracks of the 4th Life-Guard Infantry Regiment (military barracks were here under the Soviet rule too) ... | | The Higher Navy Engineering College was opened on the basis of the former barracks of the 4th Life-Guard Infantry Regiment (military barracks were here under the Soviet rule too).
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10 June. President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR S.I. Vavilov cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony of the first exposition of the Museum of A.S. Pushkin which was placed in the Alexander Palace (the museum worked until 1951) ... | | 10 June. President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR S.I. Vavilov cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony of the first exposition of the Museum of A.S. Pushkin which was placed in the Alexander Palace (the museum worked until 1951). Some rooms, including the room of A.S. Pushkin in the Lyceum on its 4th floor, were prepared for an exposition devoted to A.S. Pushkin.
Persons Vavilov Sergey Ivanovich
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