Moscow Oblast
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Moscow Oblast, informally known as Podmoskovye is a federal subject of Russia. With a population of 8,524,665 living in an area of 44,300 square kilometers, it is one of the most densely populated reg
Dolomite
Gneiss
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The Shosha River near the selo of Mikulino
Battle of Moscow
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The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and J
Moscow Oblast
…Districts were transferred in 1944 to Kaluga and Vladimir Oblasts. In 1941 and 1942, one of the most significant military operations of World War II—the Battle of Moscow—was fought in the Moscow Oblast. Germany reached Solnechnogorsky, Klinsky, Istrinsky, Lobninsky, Khimkinsky, Naro-Fominsky, Volokolamsky, Kolomensky…
Soviet anti-aircraft gunners on the roof of the Hotel Moskva
German armored column advances on the Moscow front, October 1941.
Moscow women dig anti-tank trenches around their city in 1941.
Anti-tank obstacles in a Moscow street, October 1941