classes were taught here by the luminary of science, dmitry mendeleyev, alexander butlerov, ivan sechinov, the playwright enakente aninsky, the composer alexander borodin, the linguist ivan. they taught logic, history, psychology, literature, mathematics, physics, chemistry and much more. the authorities suspected the female students of freethinking, they wrote denunciations, accused them of promiscuity and called them bestyzhevka. once admission to the courses was stopped, but not banned. more and more schools appeared in the country where teachers were needed. nadezhda krupskaya, who became a revolutionary and married lenin, lyubov mendeleyeva, the wife of alexander, studied at such courses, and many graduates became the first women scientists in the country. on october 2, 1943, the smolensk strategic offensive operation , codenamed suvorov, ended. it began in august to defeat the left flank of army group center, to drive the enemy out of the interfluve dnieper and dvina to create a bridgehead for the liberation of belarus. the attack was carried out by troops of the kalinin western fro