i don’t understand, what is this, an accident or what? and two women, it’s clear, yes, don’t worry, i think i’m still missing out, well, he’ll live in america for another month and come back, he’s a smart guy, his mother, she’s just messed with his brains, oops, yes, listen , and i was just about to call you. i can’t get through to galina and yuri petrovich, how did they go, where, yeah, okay, let’s call later, come on, what ’s up, sister vera kharlamova and her father left the hospital, today vera is one year old, so they went to the cemetery, listen, let me have you i’ll drop off the metro and then head off to the cemetery, my soul is somehow restless.

millions of years ago, the waves of an ancient sea splashed over the expanses of europe. gradually the water receded, exposing sedimentary rocks. chalk landscapes formed along the don river and its tributary, the seversky donets. among the gullies and valleys of white soft limestone lies the ancient russian city of belgor. the belgorod region is located in the southwestern part. russia, from moscow to

belgorod by rail is 700 km, traveling by train will take 7 hours, time in the journey by plane is 1:20. belgor is a large regional center; on its shady streets, boulevards and squares , ancient churches and modern buildings with glass and metal facades harmoniously coexist. if you take a walk. around the city, you can learn a lot about the military history of the russian state. the breath of the steppe and wild field has always been felt by the inhabitants of these places. many slavic and then russian settlements were destroyed by warlike nomads. even after the collapse of the powerful state of the steppe peoples, the golden horde, the southern borders of moscow kingdoms remained vulnerable.

from the expanses of the steppe, danger often came to russia, these were large masses of cavalry, and after the collapse of the horde, those khanates that arose on its ruins began to make constant raids on the central populated districts of russia, and their main goal was no longer military destruction fortresses, and most importantly the capture of blankets. in the 16th century , new powerful fortresses were erected across the tatar roads, sakm, one of them was belgor. build a fortress on the right bank of the seversky donets in 1593 the last king from the rurik family, fyodor ioannovich, commanded, but as time has shown, even the most formidable citadels were not enough to protect against fast nomads. it turned out that they could not prevent raids by using such single fortresses.

line, which will later be called the belgorod line. the belgorod defensive line consisted of an 800 km moat, fences and other fortifications, dozens of forts and fortresses. using these fortifications, firstly, they blocked the possibility rapid movement of large muscovites. this may also not seem quite right. understandable to modern man, but just as a 3 m high rampart can be stopped by a cavalryman, such fortifications will not stop one cavalryman, but when a mass of 10,000 cavalrymen, 20,000 cavalrymen is moving, and also the tatar cavalry, always taking two or three spare horses with them when going on a raid, that is, this is an even larger massif and the effect of such an obstacle arises, which greatly slows down movement, and for the military... population in belgorod it resembles

a majestic temple of the late 16th century, assumption-nicholas cathedral. it is the oldest surviving church in the city. built with a donation from emperor peter ii himself. the place was not chosen by chance; soldiers of the belgorod regiment were stationed here. they built a church. thanks to the military, the city received its own ger. the belgord infantry regiment is the unit that built the famous redoubts on the poltava field, which made it possible to bring down the main attack, the first blow of the swedish army and in commemoration of these events, this valor that was manifested during the battle of poltava, the regiment received a new regimental banner in 1712, which depicted the lion emblem as a symbol of sweden and an eagle soaring above it, these two symbols, the lion and the eagle, were preserved in

modern belgorod symbols, the merciless 20th century erased belgorod faces many bright ancient monuments. dozens of monuments remind of the devastating events of the great patriotic war. on the main cathedral square there is stella, the city of military glory. belgorod was in close proximity to the front line and changed hands several times. the invaders used the distant park of the city as a place for executions. almost the 3rd century rests in mass graves, now the park is called a memory square. belgorod was finally liberated during the battle of kursk, a fierce battle that historians called the arc of fire. by the spring of 1943, the front line was a bulge.

it is also called a growth or kursk arc. in the depths, the city of courses gives its name to this configuration. length kursk arc. 50 km, 150 km deep, 200 km wide, a huge territory that would become the territory of the decisive events of the summer of 1943. the very configuration of the front in this area pushed hitler to launch attacks in converging directions from belgorod and orel. the wehrmacht army had to cut off the kursk ledge and encircle the soviet troops. the leadership of the third reich called the operation a citadel. after the defeat at stalingrad, hitler wanted to take revenge. and although the fuhrer is warned by prominent german military leaders about that after the defeat at stalingrad, the troops are weakened, it is too

early to start an offensive, but it is extremely necessary. the two opposing sides understand that it is here that the fate of both the great patriotic war and the second world war will be decided. in general, for the fascist group, which acted from the belgorod region, on the southern front of the kursk bulge, the main directions were the cities of obayan and korocha, but the fascists were met by red army soldiers with heavy fire. near the village of yakovlevo on the 624th kilometer of the moscow-simferopol highway, about the persistent resistance resembles a memorial in honor of the heroes of the battle of kursk. around it, several decades after the war, traces of military battles could be found. i came here to this place to celebrate victory day, it was the only place where the belgordians sat, it was the fiery arc,

prokhovuka had not yet been arranged like this. here is the armor, here is a german tank, here we find the armor of a german tank destroyed right here in the grass. painting and stainless seams that... on tanks, the tanks that failed were precisely stainless seams, but mostly german now, all this was there, it was visible. hitler, in the company of the summer of 1943, relied on new weapons, tiger and panther tanks, the ferdinand self-propelled artillery unit, and fighter attack aircraft, but the nazis never took yakovlev’s strategic height. the wehrmacht soldiers were forced to turn aside. at the prokhorovka railway station. in the very center of belgorod , the ensemble of victory park was formed over several decades. the alley of heroes leads to

the famous diorama museum of the battle of kursk - belgorod direction. in the museum you can learn about the history of the military battles of 1943. documents, photographs, personal belongings of the participants in the battles tell about the battle of kursk in detail, here it becomes clear... the headquarters and significance of the turning point battle of the great patriotic war on the arc of fire. the central place in the museum is occupied by a diorama. she recreates the event of a tank battle on the prokhorovsky field. this is not an abstract event, this is height 252.2, we are in the center of the fighting of the twenty-ninth tank corps of the thirty-first tank brigade. and artists reflect to us, confrontation. soldiers, primarily the tank army, the fifth guards tank army, lieutenant general pavel

alekseevich rotmestrov and most of the figures of soldiers and commanders of the red army, which we see reflected on the canvas, are actually participants in the event of july 12, 1943. on the site of the prokhorovsky field, the zvoonnitsa monument was erected. an alarm bell is fixed between the pylons. a bell whose ringing reminds of fallen soldiers. the belfry was erected in 1995, the highest point of the historical field. two-fifths of the army fought in these places, the guards the combined arms army of alexei zhadov and the tank army of pavel rotmistrov. they fought intense battles for almost a week, from july 10 to 16, not only on the prokhorovsky field, but in the radiation of the river. along with the kulikovo field and borodino,

the prokhorovsky field received the status of one of the main places of military glory of the country, this is the third military field in russia. the museum complex of the same name is located 6 kilometers from prokhorovsky field, near the prokhorovka railway station. its area is almost 500 km. the exhibits in the museum halls tell about just... arcs, visitors will learn real stories about the exploits of soviet soldiers, doctors, civilians, only stubborn resistance, the self-sacrifice of the soviet people, helped stop the nazis , the wehrmacht soldiers did not go further than the prokhorovsky field, the offensive operation of the citadel was thwarted, here the nazi command finally lost its strategic... .initiative . the victory at the kursk bulge was a turning point in the history of the great patriotic

war. belgorod is often called the city of the first fireworks display, because it really the first fireworks in the history of the great patriotic war, to commemorate the victory, were given in honor of the liberation of the cities of belgor and orel. this is no coincidence, because indeed 1943 was the year of a radical change. this is the period when the fate of the war was decided on the battlefields and on the kurdish battlefield. august 23, the day of the defeat of the nazi troops in the kurdish battle, is marked in the russian calendar as a day of military glory.

so, gentlemen, comrades, i called you, for this reason, general barinov called and instructed us to take you to the city prosecutor's office one witness. this is none of our business, gennady antonovich? well, this is the general's personal request. it's funny, i thought so too, but when i found out who the witness was. the questions immediately disappeared: who is the witness in the law for bringing the cross, the one that was discovered in ukraine? yes, my old friend, i took it back in '92 . he and his friends began to take over the small business, but so to speak, voluntarily, forcibly, offered protection, then received little, because the victims at the trial refused their previous testimony, but he still got a c grade i cleaned up one businessman’s face for being a hooligan, now that means he has become a witness, and yes, he will testify in court.