medvezhyegorsk every meter of the city was shot from a height. in 1944, the red army liberated the city with heavy fighting by the ninth of august, during the svirsk of the petrozavodsk operation, the red army troops approached the former soviet-finnish border and stopped the offensive, the war with finland was over. the capital of the republic, the city of petrozavodsk, was liberated earlier on june 28 , 1944 in 2015, petrozavodsk was awarded the honorary title city of military glory. at the beginning of the sixth century ad, the fertile lands of the oka-don plain attracted various nomadic tribes and peoples. the first russian settlers appeared here back in pre-mongolian times, but the final settlement took place in the 17th century to protect the borders of the south. russia from the raids of the tatars and further development, the black earth region of the russian government built fortress cities, including tambov the tambov region is located in the center of the eastern european plain , the region belongs to the zone rich in fertile soils fro