the urals began to gain strength in the 18th century during the reign of emperor peter the great . for several decades, the ural iron and copper smelters became the most important metallurgical base of the country . pioneers of mining in the urals , industrialists. demidovs, the founders of yekaterinburg vasily tatishchev and wilgel evgenijn. inscribed the first pages in the glorious history of the mining region, the sverdlovsk region is located in the middle and northern parts of the ural ridge. and this is the largest region of the ural federal district between moscow and the center of the region, the city of yekaterinburg. by rail over 1,600 km. traveling by train will take about a day to reach by plane. it is possible for two and a half hours, yekaterinburg received a name in honor of empress catherine i. catherine ii

granted him the status of a city in 1781. modern yekaterinburg lives in the rhythm of a metropolis, the center of economic, financial and business life, a skyscraper quarter. it became the same landmark of its architecture as the old mansions of the 18th and 19th centuries during the hard times of wars. the urals always stood up for the defense of the motherland, the urals took an active part in the military campaign of 1812 in the middle of the 20th century, during the confrontation with nazi germany , the urals became the stronghold of the state with the outbreak of world war ii , it changed dramatically in the life of sverdlovsk, this name was worn by the city for almost the entire soviet period of history trains of refugees with machinery and factory equipment stretched here, the city accepted dozens of institutes into theaters. treasures of the hermitage and paintings in the gallery in

in the basement of a house on radishcheva street was the radio broadcasting center of the soviet union sose. d 1941 to the spring of 1943 levitan's loud voice attention says moscow sounded 1,000 km from the capital and sverdlovsk speak moscow we transfer the important government of yuri borisovich's evacuation to the urals few knew his voice united the country and instilled faith in victory hitler called levitan his personal enemy number one from the first days of the war , the sverlovites enlisted in the ranks of the red army . volunteers did not go to the front to serve in the army, and here i am only in the army, but also on the front region of the inhabitants

of the sverdlovsk region. among the memorable places in yekaterinburg there are those that directly relate us to the events of those years. it was here at the intersection of lunacharsky street and tveritina street that it was at this place that the marching battalions were formed from the marching companies of the unit , people came in order to be assigned to a military unit and from here. they went to the front. and in honor of these people in 2005 , this monument was erected here called the gray-haired ural the author of this monument. e, the georgian sculptor is a reminder of the words of alexander nevsky, whoever comes with them, he answers died to find out about the contribution of the overthrown, in the vat of the inhabitants of the region in the cause of victory it is worth going to the museum of the district

officer’s house in the central military district photographs newspaper chronicle, personal belongings of participants in the great patriotic war wars recreate the atmosphere of that time. you can also consider here about the banding of the soldiers of the famous ural volunteer corps, 9,660 people were selected for the corps. they were equipped at the expense of residents ural is fully armed. the tanks were produced at the ural factories with battles more than 5,000 km passed from orel and kursk to berlin and prague a monument to the ural volunteer corps welcomes guests of the city on the railway station square in the ural state military history museum unique evidence of the history of the ural volunteer corps is stored in front of you first of all, this order to the volunteers of the ural volunteer tank corps

from the workers of the southern urals and this order was made entirely by hand, it is unique in that it the only copy exists, and another interesting exhibit is the knife, the famous black knife, i also call them, namely, for these knives our corps received the name schwarzmeister. the shell division, among the germans, the division of black knives ural, including the sverdlovsk region, became the center during the war years, industrial evacuations began to work in full force at the ural heavy engineering plant. uralmash for the first time in world history. mass production of cast tank turrets was launched here, field and tank guns, the famous self-propelled artillery the installation of one of the centers of industrial evacuation has become an old factory, the city of nizhniy tagil nizhniy tagil is the second most populated city of the sverdlovsk region from yekaterinburg to nizhny tagil , though, beautifully about 150 km between the two

cities. there is a railway connection , the travel time will be 2-3 hours from moscow to nizhny tagil, which can be reached by the malachite branded train from the autumn of 1941. the enterprise of nizhny tagil placed on its premises a plant from central russia when there were not enough locals, the machines were mounted under open-air authorities were urgently looking for suitable housing for hundreds of people, among whom a significant part were the families of workers from evacuated enterprises on krasny borui. it's small nothing at all here gave a small room. she was all in india because there was no stove in this room. well, it was impossible to live there. i ran away from the cold to the factory. mom also worked at the plant, and even before the war, the ural carriages

were preparing to be a construction plant. a figurative understudy of the kharkov steam locomotive of the construction plant of the main pre-war manufacturer medium tanks in the ussr in the fall of 1941, echelons with machine tools and drawings arrived in the urals together with the director yuri evgenievich maksarev within 50 days, he managed to organize and establish the production of t-34 tanks in nizhny tagil and was defined as the parent company in the production of medium tanks t -34, because it was here that the head cab was located. literally from the first days, all forces were thrown into simplifying the design of the t-34 tank. there were a lot of problems that needed to be solved regarding metallurgy. and this is one of the main productions. us enterprises. after all, it is one thing to produce steel for freight cars and quite

another. work, when expensive alloyed grades of manganese steels are smelted during the war, the plant developed new advanced technologies for those times , for example, they designed an automatic welding machine and mastered the casting of tank turrets in the museum halls, you can see a model of the world's first conveyor for collecting tanks, a workshop where a tank conveyor worked and now exists at the plant. it is assembled on modern equipment freight wagons. the plant continues to work on new generation tanks . the uralvagon museum of armored vehicles of the plant presents the entire line of tanks that were and are being produced by its workshops. any technique is powerless without proven ammunition. after the evacuation of the sofrino test site near moscow, nizhny tagil fell,

the main burden of testing shells , a quarter of all ammunition fired during the war years, went to the front after testing at the nizhny tagil test site staratel then there was no time to argue then the organization the landfill was probably around the clock brought the party. she immediately went from the wheel to the test. people did not eat enough, did not get enough sleep, but did everything for the front. everything for victory in the sverdlovsk region is one of the largest museums of military equipment in the country on the border of yekaterinburg in the small town of verkhnyaya pyshma, almost six hectares is occupied by a fleet of tanks of military aircraft, boats and boats from school age. children begin to get acquainted with military equipment in detail in the workshop of bench modeling, most of the exhibits of the museum and restored specialists of the ural mining metallurgical company one of the most

interesting exhibits in our collection of light tanks is the soviet amphibious tank t-37a in no other museum, there is no such amphibious tank produced by the izhora plant. and for us it is a great pride for the thirties . it was a unique combat vehicle nowhere in the world have there been amphibious tanks yet. and we have already mass-produced them. and this is not an easy car, really such a kind of armored boat that can move, both on land, so on the water surface since 2015, a model of the uzlovaya railway station has appeared on the open area of ​​​​the museum; on its tracks you can see all the main equipment that moved across the expanses of the soviet union during the war near the oldest steam locomotive of the series of. in the course of o, the main steam engine of walshart, this is the first main steam locomotive of the russian railways. these locomotives were produced in tsarist russia until the fifteenth year. they were produced a little. uh, in soviet power

, literally 3 years in the late twenties. yes they they all went through the first world war, but they went through the civil war, but they went through the interwar conflicts and the great patriotic war itself. yes, and when we talk about armored trains, we always imagine a sheep locomotive, because well, what is an armored train is an armored train, which is very heavy if you book an armored locomotive. here 's a big man, he will be very heavy and the mass will be excessive, and he will simply break the railway tracks with his weight, therefore , sheep have always been in the lead, sverdlovskaya the area is cherished by the memory of the great patriotic war. sheep drills made huge contributions to the cause of the victory both on the fronts and in the rear marshal of victory georgy zhukov called the industrial clavation equal to the greatest battle of the second world war. the commander spent five post-war years in yekaterinburg. as commander of the urals military district, one of the most impressive monuments to georgy zhukov

is now installed in the historical part of the city in front of the headquarters of the central military district, the urals have always been famous as strong people caring for their land and their country the soldiers of the urals, the workers of the rear, became faithful continuers of the traditions of the pioneers in the region, who spared neither health nor life for the glory of the fatherland

people they are all evil by nature. some out of jealousy others. and the fact that they do not feel the damage. and the third just nice to steal someone else's life. here they are slandering others. this is why you annoyed people so much that they needlessly accused you of nine contract killings. you know such vasilenko. no, never heard or seen.

vasilenko was found dead in his cell yesterday he hanged himself. yes, i think he himself was poisoned , he realized that he said he had laid hands on an innocent person. that alive for the court his testimony is the same?