The Separate Operational Purpose Division or ODON, formerly called OMSDON, is a rapid deployment internal security division of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and then the Russian Federation, currently part of the National Guard Forces Command of the Russian Federation. ODON is an initialism for Отдельная дивизия оперативного назначения.
The Order of Glory was a military decoration of the Soviet Union established by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on November 8, 1943. It was awarded to soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the Red Army as well as to aviation junior lieutenants, for bravery in the face of the enemy.
The Queen of Spades is a 1982 film adaptation of the 1834 Alexander Pushkin short story of the same name.
38 Parrots is a series of ten children's cartoons produced in the Soviet Union between 1976 and 1991 by Soyuzmultfilm. The series portrays the amusing adventures of four friends: the talkative chimpanzee Martyshka, the shy elephant Slonyonok, the eccentric parrot Popugai, and the thoughtful boa Udav.
Nadezhda Vasilyevna Rumyantseva was a popular Soviet and Russian actress. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1991).
The Girls is a 1961 Soviet romantic comedy-drama directed by Yuri Chulyukin based on a screenplay by Boris Bednyj.
Annychka is a 1968 Russian-Ukrainian drama. The film, which was produced at the Dovzhenko Film Studios, takes place in 1943 and is about a Hutsul girl played by Lyubov Rumyantseva. In 1969, it received a Golden Tower award at the Phnom Penh Film Festival in Cambodia. The director received a special prize at the Kyiv Film Festival. In the USSR alone, in 1969 25.1 million people saw it.
The Armenian Cemetery of Moscow is an Armenian historical cemetery in Moscow, Russia It is located in the Krasnaya Presnya district, not far from Vagankovo Cemetery. The cemetery was established in 1804 by the initiative of Minas Lazarev, the leader of Moscow’s Armenian community, who also initiated the construction of the Surb Harutyun Armenian church (1808–1815). The Lazarev family crypt is located under the church. The cemetery and the church are under state protection. Among the state-protected monuments are the obelisk on A.A. Loris-Melikov's tomb (1844), Ananov's tombs, khachkar on D.S. Melik-Beglyarov's tomb (1913), and the modernist gravestone for Nikolai Tarasov sculpted by Nikolai Andreev. The Armenian Cemetery is also the resting place for the remains of people who were not of Armenian descent.
The Adjutant of His Excellency is a Soviet television mini-series which was produced in 1969 and is set during the Russian Civil War. The plot revolves around Captain Pavel Koltsov, an agent working for the Soviet secret police who is spying on the white Volunteer Army, posing as an adjutant to a chief commander, general Kovalevsky.
The Troyekurovo Cemetery, alternatively known as Novo-Kuntsevo Cemetery, is a cemetery in Moscow, Russia.
The Living and the Dead is a 1964 Soviet World War II drama film directed by Aleksandr Stolper and produced by Mosfilm based on the 1959 novel The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov.
Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle is an iconic 1973 Soviet war drama black-and-white film produced in the USSR about World War II fighter pilots, written and directed by Leonid Bykov, who also played the lead role as the squadron commander.
Ivan Fomich Pavlov was a ground attack pilot of the Soviet Air Forces during World War II. He served as both a flight and squadron commander in 6th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment during the conflict, for which he was twice named a Hero of the Soviet Union. Pavlov continued to serve in the Air Force postwar, rising to command a regiment, but was killed in an air accident only five years after the end of the war.
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Trial on the Road is a 1971 black-and-white Soviet film set in World War II, directed by Aleksey German, starring Rolan Bykov, Anatoly Solonitsyn and Vladimir Zamansky. It is also known as Checkpoint or Check up on the Road.
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Wings is a 1966 Soviet black and white drama film directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, her first feature film made after graduating from the All-Russian State Institute for Cinematography.
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation or is a 1990 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai.
The 2nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division was an anti-aircraft artillery division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II and the Soviet Army during the early years of the Cold War.
Commander of the Lucky 'Pike' is a 1972 Soviet action war film directed by Boris Volchek.
Aleksey Fyodorovich Naumov was a Soviet tank commander during World War II. Naumov graduated from the Chelyabinsk Tank School in November 1942 and was soon assigned to the Don Front to command a KV-1 heavy tank. Attached to the 344th Tank Battalion, he and his crew distinguished themselves on 21 January 1943, during the final stages of the Battle of Stalingrad. Soviet forces had been attempting to take the Pitomnik Airfield and the farmstead of Novaya Nadezhda, near Stalingrad. When he crew ran out of ammunition, German soldiers poured gasoline on his tank and set it on fire, killing the entire crew. When Soviet forces took Novaya Nadezhda, the remains of Naumov and his men were buried nearby. He and several other members of his crew were posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Whistle Stop is a 1963 Soviet comedy film directed by Boris Barnet.
