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Everyone knows that the only head of the Soviet Union, who fought at the front in the Great Patriotic war, was Leonid Brezhnev. N. Khrushchev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko age is also allowed to go to defend their Homeland with weapons in their hands — but they had a different fate. Let's see what the head of the Soviet state, instead of to fight together with the entire Soviet people.

Today hulhuta — insignificant urban-type settlement in Kalmykia. Despite the fact that hulhuta via the Federal highway, the village, like most such settlements, slowly losing population. But in 1942 between the red Army and the Wehrmacht for this village turned violent fights, which was very important for the further progress of the war. Nevertheless, the war in the Kalmyk steppe is still an obscure topic for the domestic reader. In 2014, Kalmyk Institute of Humanities research, has published a collection of articles that shed light on many episodes of battles on the Astrakhan direction. Of particular interest is, so to speak, a look from the other side: the German occupation of the Kalmyk ASSR was reflected in photographs and diary entries made by soldiers and officers of Wehrmacht.

14 (2 old style) September 1854 began the main campaign of the Crimean war. Anglo-Franco-Turkish Alliance army smoothly landed on the Russian shore at Yalta. Chief of the Russian army and fleet Admiral Prince Alexander Menshikov allowed the enemy to disembark a whole, hoping to defeat him in a land battle. However, the battle at the river Alma 20 September ended with the defeat of the Russian army, primarily because of the superiority of the enemy in rifled small arms.

At the beginning of the war in the vicinity of the Lithuanian town of Raseiniai was a unique case. One Soviet tank KV-1 for 48 hours, held back the advance of the German 6th Panzer division. The battle became known thanks to the memoirs of the immediate participant of those events – Colonel of the Wehrmacht Erhard Routh.

Scouts – special infantry units of the Kuban (black sea) Cossack troops.