vinyavsky lyudkus in 1877 the conservatory moved to bolshaya nikitskaya, and then the architect vasily zagorsky built a new building for it in 1940 the conservatory was named after pyotr tchaikovsky since the fifty-eighth tchaikovsky competitions have been held here among the graduates of the moscow conservatory sergei svyatoslav richter, mstislav rostropovich, yuri bashmet and many other great musicians exactly 80 years ago, september 13, 1942 the first assault on stalingrad began, the nazis had more artillery troops, six times more tanks than the luftwaffe, dominated the air, but the sixty- second army of vasily chuikov stood to death. in the very first days, the germans broke through to the center of stalingrad, but they were not able to capture it. the station passed from hand to hand 13 times, the german general hans dur, a participant in the battles, remembered for each house the shop water tower, we were in the wall in the basement and finally for every pile of garbage. a fierce struggle was born that had no herbal on the night of september 15, the guards division of alexander radintsev