among them were the canon of vasily's jet of admirals of the traveler ivan kruzenshtern, a linguist,any others, and today the rgo unites tens of thousands of members not only in russia but also abroad , more than 200 branches and representative offices and two headquarters. the first and main in st. petersburg and since 2013 also in in moscow, on august 18, 1945, the kuril landing operation of the soviet troops began, which are considered an example of military art . the soviet army landed troops on the island of noise, although the losses of the ussr exceeded the losses of the japanese. in the red army, she still won, despite the smaller forces than the enemy and his entire system of fortifications on the kuriles. japan generally assumed that the kuriles would become a springboard for an attack on the soviet union and the capture of kamchatka on the islands, the japanese equipped as many as two naval bases and concentrated a lot of tank guns and a contingent of 80,000 japanese fighters, but by the beginning of september, all 56 islands of the kuril ridge came under the control of th