Mr. Voronezh biography

The city of military glory is Voronezh. The foundation and history of the city of Voronezh. Voronezh is located in the European part of Russia, approximately in the km south of Moscow. The city is located on the Voronezh River, not far from the place of its confluence in the Don. Voronezh is first mentioned in the year. Ancient chronicles talk about the settlement of Voronozh or Voronyazh.

Based on these facts, historians suggest that the Voronezh lands were inhabited in the 12th century. However, the official year of the founding of Voronezh is nevertheless considered when a fortress was built on the site of the settlement, designed to defend the southern borders of the Russian kingdom from the encroachments of the Polish-Lithuanian troops and from the raids of the Crimean and Nogai Tatars.

By the middle of the XVII century. In those days, Voronezh becomes part of the Belgorod line created to protect the state. With the rise to the throne of Peter I, a new round begins in the history of the city. After the legendary campaign at the basics, when, when trying to liberate the original Russian lands from the Tatars and Turks, the Russian army was defeated, the young tsar Peter 1 decides to create the Russian Navy.

According to the king’s decision, ships begin to lay on the banks of the Voronezh River. The largest shipbuilding center in Peter's times was built here. Since then, the city of Voronezh has been inscribed in the history of Russia as the cradle of the Russian Navy. Peter I, realizing all the significance for the state in possessing a powerful fleet, preferred to personally control the work at the Voronezh shipyard and repeatedly visited the city for this.

Voronezh sacredly stores the memory of the great sovereign: one of the first monuments in Russia Peter I appeared here in the year. The bronze figure was made using the posthumous mask of the emperor. The authors created a complete symbolism of a monument. Peter I is depicted on an anchor, which marks the creation of the fleet on the Voronezh land, and the king’s right hand indicates the conquered Azov.

The Rostral Column Monument to Peter 1. The Admiralty Church in Voronezh is the Assumption Admiralty Temple - the oldest of the surviving buildings, the history of which is closely related to the formation of the Russian fleet under Peter the Great. In the Assumption Church, in April, a worship was held before the first launch of ships and galleys of the emerging fleet of Russia.

Today, the area on which the temple is located is named after Admiralteyskaya. Here in September, a rostral column was installed in the glory of the Russian fleet and in honor of its flying - a thin tower white spire, which is an adornment of the city embankment. Another of the most recognizable symbols of Voronezh is the Mercury Meter Meter of the ship in the middle of the river.

The cannon-hare-harem ship Mercury was launched in Ramoni X was a member of the battles during the Kerch campaign and in the war against Turkey. Even after the expansion of the borders of the Russian state, when the city ceased to be a protective fortress, a lot of severe tests fell on its inhabitants. More than ten regiments of the people's militia of Voronezh defended the Fatherland in the war with the armies of Napoleon in the year.

In December, the fighting of the Civil War unfolded in the immediate vicinity of the southern counties of the province. The lives of many thousands of Voronezh residents paid the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. A memorial complex in honor of the defeat of the Nazi troops near Voronezh Stela on Victory Square. Monument of Glory. The memorial complex on the mass grave of the soldiers of the city of military glory of Voronezh who died in the battles for Voronezh during the Great Patriotic War.

From the very first day of the attack of fascist invaders, martial law was introduced in Voronezh. The city announced the mode of photography and opened all the bomb shelters. In the early days of the war, more than 60 thousand Voronezh residents joined the ranks of the militia. Already in the fall of the year, the war came close to the city, the front line ran a hundred kilometers from the border of Voronezh.

The city has acquired the status of the frontline. In the summer of the year, Nazi troops undertook the seizure of the city. For more than days and nights, the battle was going on, and the enemy, despite the troops superior in terms of numbers and preparation, could not completely master Voronezh. The front line divided the city into an occupied and free territory from the enemy.

In the hands of the invaders there was a right -bank, and the Left Bank district remained controlled by the Red Army forces. The resistance of Voronezh in the summer of G. Soviet troops held their positions until the decisive battle for the liberation of the city in January of the year.

Hundreds of thousands of Voronezhs courageously fought for the freedom of the city and the country. The struggle with the invaders was also filed in the rear: women, old people and children provided the front necessary. The feat of the city and its inhabitants in the Great Patriotic War was marked by state awards: the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree in the year and the Order of Lenin in the year.

In the year, for the courage and heroism of the defenders of the city, manifested in the battle with the invaders, by decree of the President of Russia, the city of Voronezh was awarded the title "City of Military Glory".Destroyed during the war of the Rotond of the Children's Hospital. Monument to Peter 1. Ancient postcard. Monument to the ship "Mercury", built on Voronezh shipyards.

Monuments of military glory of the city of Voronezh on the day of the celebration of the Flight of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, May 9, in Voronezh opened the Memorial complex "Victory Square". In the southern part of the memorial, a meter stele rises, on the top of which a layout of the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree is installed for the heroism of the Voronezhs during the war.

On one side of the memorial, there are cabbages made of red granite with the names of military units carved on them that participated in the fighting near Voronezh. On the day of the solemn opening of the memorial complex, the eternal fire was lit on the memorial - a symbol of sorrow and the memory of the fighting and dead Voronezh residents, about the feat of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.

In the northern microdistrict of Voronezh there is a particularly mournful place - this is a mass grave, where more than 10 thousand soldiers who defended and freed the city in the GG are buried. The memorial complex on the mass grave of the fallen was opened on January 25 of the year. The dominant of the memorial, which eventually began to be called the "Monument of Glory", is a sculpture with the image of a dying warrior and mother, breasts of a nursing child.

In early May, the remains of General A. Lizyukov and seven unknown soldiers who gave their lives in the battles of the Great Patriotic War on Voronezh land were reburied at the foot of the “Monument of Glory”. Despite the ancient history, there are few historical buildings in the city, preserved after the Great Patriotic War. Therefore, the monument is very symbolic, which is located on the northern outskirts of Voronezh.

This is the destroyed Rotond of the Trino. In years, a huge building of the children's regional hospital was erected in the city, the inlet of which was made in the form of a rotunda. According to the project of architects, the entrance was made in the style of Italian architecture: the columns at the entrance to the hospital were installed in a circle and supported a huge dome.

In gg. The building was completely destroyed, and what remained of the surviving entrance group was decided to be preserved as a symbol of the persistence of the city.