Vasily Margelov
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Vasily Filippovich Margelov was a Red Army General who commanded the Soviet Airborne Forces from 1954 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1979. During his total of 23 years commanding the Soviet Airborne Forces,
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Margelov speaking to paratroopers
An Il-76 transport loading paratroops in 1984
Monument in Chișinău
Dnipro
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Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, 391 km southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnipro River, from whic
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…their most vital period of development." Vasily Markelov (later changed to Margelov due to a spelling error) was born on 27 December 1906 in the city of Ekaterinoslav, the son of Belarusian parents Filipp Ivanovich Markelov and Agata Stepanovna. His father, Filipp Markelov, worked in an iron foundry. In 1913, the…
Вид на "Нагірну" частину міста з лівого берегу
Днепропетровский городской совет
Sviato Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral
A part of the Cuman statue collection of the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro