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Georgiy Zhukov
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov – Soviet commander, who headed the defeat of the invincible Wehrmacht by the Red Army in 1945. He had to learn not only world-wide fame and tremendous honor, but also disgrace – removal from office, reproaches in exaggerating his own merits, in that during military operations he made mistakes paid with the blood of millions of citizens. Continue reading
BIOGRAPHY LAVRENTIA OF BERIA
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria is one of the most influential politicians of the Stalin period, the omnipotent NKVD chief, whose name is associated both with executions of representatives of the party and military elite, mass repressions, and important achievements in the field of increasing the economic potential of the country, reorganizing foreign intelligence activities, and creating domestic nuclear weapons. Continue reading
Dmitriy Mendeleev
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
In 1855, Mendeleev graduated with honors and began teaching first at the gymnasium of Simferopol, then at Odessa (he was sent to the south for health amendment at the request of the university to the Ministry of Education). A year later, at the University of the City on the Neva, he defended his master’s thesis, in 1857 presented another qualifying work and began lecturing students in chemistry as an assistant professor. Continue reading
