Malakhov Kurgan
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Malakhov Kurgan is a tactically important height in the southeastern portion of the Crimean city of Sevastopol. It was fortified and became an important Russian position during the Siege of Sevastopol
Back side of the Malakhov Kurgan, 1904
French troops capture the hill.
The Second World War gun position
Pavel Nakhimov
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Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov was a Russian admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy known for his victory in the Battle of Sinop and his leadership in the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War.
Malakhov Kurgan
…after the Russian Vice-Admiral Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov who was a commander during the defence and was mortally wounded there in late 1854. Admiral Pavel Nakhimov was later mortally wounded on the hill during the siege. The hill was attacked by French forces on the night of 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1855 in…
Pavel Nakhimov
Nakhimov on a 1952 Soviet stamp
Memorial of where Nakhimov got his lethal wound
Painting of Pavel Nakhimov, by Georg Wilhelm Timm