aircraft designer nikolai polikarpov reminds of the pre-war period. nikolai nikolaevich was the founder of the soviet school of aircraft engineering , the oryol military history museum devotes almost 2 years to the details of the military history of the region. oryol and most of the region were under nazi occupation. orel was among the nine ancient narrow cities most severely affected by the great patriotic war by government decree. it was subject to, but first of all, restoration, of course. damage. it was very large, practically in orel there was not a single whole house left, of course, it is very difficult for civilians. on october 3, 1941, oryol captured the fourth tank division of the guderian group, gein himself with guderian recalled that his tanks drove into the city so rapidly that the streets were still there were trams, but the ease of the victory was deceptive. the further advance of guderian to moscow was stopped by the tank brigade, the future first guards under the command of mikhail katukov under the eagle, the katukovites received a baptism of fire. first, it means that the battles on thirty-fours and kv-1 and at the heights in the a