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doves flew, gray and blueberries flew ; poetic images of the ryazan land are familiar to every russian from childhood; they are captured in the poems of a famous native of these places, the poet sergei yesenin. his lyrical lines about the edge birch calico, and the expanse of its fields, the blue of its rivers and lakes, breathes with love for its native land. on the banks of the aka river, the village

of konstantinovo, where the poet was born, has stood for 400 years. now it has become a place of pilgrimage for everyone interested in the rich history and culture of this region. part of the modern ryazan region was inhabited by slavic tribes in the 20th century. the great ryazan principality was formed here. in the 14th century it successfully competed with moscow. the confrontation ended only after a peacekeeping mission. sergius of radonishsky, who came here to conclude eternal peace between moscow and ryazan. in memory of the spiritual guardian of the land of the russian and orthodox faith, a monument was erected in ryazan. the ryazan region is located in the center of the european part of russia, from moscow to ryazan by rail about 200 km. travel time by train is about 3 hours. you can also get to the city by bus or by car.

ryazan, with a population of half a million, attracts tourists with its picturesque historical buildings and unique culture. it is one of the oldest cities in russia. the first mention of the settlement at this place it dates back to 195. then it was called pereislavl ryazansky. the city adopted its current name - ryazan - from the first capital of the principality. ancient ryazan was located 65 km from the modern city, on the steep bank of the aka river; the ramparts encircling the city are still clearly visible. old ryazan occupied a huge territory by medieval standards, 70 hectares. not a single building from that time has survived. the ruins that now rise on the bank of the aka river remain from a church of much later construction. in in 1237, old ryazan met one of the first. a new

force, previously unknown to the slavs, the army of the mongol-tatars. they were excellent warriors, they had known such comrades as the nomads for a very long time. so they saw a lot of tribes, and torks, and berendeys, and pechenegs, polovtsians, but they did not know what the tatar-mongols were, it was a completely different army, it was an army, not a horde, as it was called, it had a clear division, a rigid discipline, our own tactics, a strategy that we had not yet encountered, in the first couple of days we invariably suffered defeat, in old ryazan there were officially 10,000 people. the figure means the tatar-mongol invasion is 100,000, and if you believe the literary monument that has survived to this day about the story of the devastation of ryazan by batu, ryazan prince yuri led a militia squad into a field on the voronezh river and tried to stop tatargol.

the militia squad was destroyed, that is , it turns out that the city was left without the best part of its defenders. old russian literature has preserved the memory of the feat of the rezan battle. on evpatiy kolavat, his a small squad, finding ryazan devastated, set off in pursuit of the invaders, and, as the legend says, beat the horde army with small forces. ancient ryazan never recovered from the invasion of the horde. the princely court and the bishop moved away from the borders to pereislavsky, in modern ryazan. items found at the ancient ryazan settlement form the core of the collection of the ryazan museum. since the 19th century , scientific excavations have been carried out on the site of the ancient capital of the principality. only 6% of 100 of the entire area of ​​the settlement has been explored so far, then there is, by ordinary standards , incredibly little. but in this 6% , 17 gold and silver treasures have already been found. near

the modern village of glebovo fortification, which stands on the banks of the vozha river 40 km from ryazan, another historical place has been preserved. battles, according to scientists, in 1378 , here the troops of dmitry ivanovich of the future donskov, 2 years before the battle of kulikovo , won one of the first victories over the mongol-tatars. in 2003 , a monument to stell was erected on the field in memory of the battle. in the glebovo settlement regularly the military-historical festival battle of vozha is taking place. after the mongol invasion , the ryazan principality. continued to remain a border region that met all the blows of the nomads of the wild field. pereislavsky was the main fortress of the large serif line, the southern line of fortifications. near the kremlin, on a high hill at the confluence of the lybet and trubezh rivers

, the defensive rampart and ditch are still clearly visible. during the period of troubles at the beginning of the 18th century, the first people's militia was formed in ryazan under the leadership of... procopia lepunova. during the patriotic war of 1812, the ryazan region received endless streams of refugees and wounded. the last time ryazan land became an arena of military operations was during the great patriotic war. in the fall of 1941, nazi troops occupied seven southwestern regions of the region. gudrian was given a very specific task. to surround moscow from the east, from the east there was, there was the city of ryazan, from the east there was a railway line, a very powerful, very large connection, through which passed through the rybna railway station, at which trains arrived in huge numbers

from those evacuated to the east of the country, factories that had just switched to a military footing, they were just managing to deliver the first military equipment, at the rybnaya station the compilation of these echelons, and accordingly , the city of ryazan stood on the way to the village of poyarkovova, 55 km from ryazan, a fifteen-meter stella in the form of a rifle bayonet was installed. she points to the place from where on the night of december 6th to 7th 1941, the counter-offensive of the tenth army began. under the command of lieutenant general philip ivanovich glikov. the 330th infantry division liberated the ancient city of mikhailov from the nazis. in the mikhailovsky regional museum, a significant part of the exhibits is dedicated to the war. one of the few city buildings

that survived at that time was the bridge over the pronya river. there was a fierce battle for him in december '41. mikhailov became one of the first russian cities to be liberated. during the counteroffensive near moscow. about hard things battle, but not on the battlefield, resembles a monument to the village of bogramova, 24 km from ryazan. the pastament erected one of the first soviet tractors produced by the kharkov plant. this is a dedication to all women home front workers who performed feats of labor in the name of victory. in the ryazan village of bogramovo, daria matveevna garmash, one of the most famous home front workers during the war, worked as a resident. she initiated the socialist competition of women's tractor teams. it turned out that in december 941, the fascist army was

defeated near moscow, the time came when it was necessary to think about the spring village, bagramov had only women left, so the first task was to daria garmash, a young komsomol member, who was 20 years old at that time, who 6 months before had given birth to her first child, who escorted her beloved husband to the front, the first task was to assemble a youth komsomol women's tractor brigade. during all the war years, daria garmash's brigade fulfilled fivefold norms. after the war, for numerous improvements in the progress of work, daria matveevna received the stalin prize. in the seventies, she was awarded the title of hero of socialist labor. her personal ones are kept in the historical and technical museum of defense and logistics in bagramova. your things, photographs and newspaper clippings create an atmosphere of patriotic enthusiasm; you can

read numerous letters that came to the brigade from the front. they brought bags of letters to the brigade, can you imagine, after some heavy battle, the soldiers wrote and addressed the women, saying that they were surprised at the heroic deeds there at the front, which they are doing here, a museum in the building of a former agricultural machinery office, one of... ryazan is home to the ryazan higher airborne command school named after army general morgelov. the largest airborne history museum in russia operates here. one of the most famous and beloved guides by children and adults is vladimir andreevich innyun. a retired colonel, he began serving in the airborne forces during the great patriotic war. now he talks about the power of his native troops to the younger generation of ryazan residents. among the museum's relics,

banners of airborne divisions of brigades that took part in the great patriotic war, military medals and orders of paratroopers, archival documents, front-line newspapers, letters and much more. but the specificity of the airborne forces is that they fight behind enemy lines. if infantry, artillery, tanks, they are fighting on their own territory, he has his own population, which supports the right moment, then the paratrooper must fight in the rear of the enemy, he must have special weapons, tactics, his own equipment, communications, but naturally there should be support, and above all, the missile forces of the aviation, but the airborne forces history museum is designed just for this, to show what paratroopers are like, what their role is, so that everyone who visited this museum can leave here with dignity, but if not for themselves, future paratrooper, then for the fact that there are such troops

on which you can rely. in the park, next to the ryazan higher school, there is a monument to vasily filipovich margelov, the legendary commander of the airborne troops. on ryazan land they honor the memory of warriors, those who died in distant battles the past, and those who laid down their lives in the 20th and 21st centuries. the military traditions of this region have deep roots. the ryazan wars wrote many glorious pages in the chronicle of russian military valor.