Белгород в 1960-е годы / Belgorod in the 1960s

Белгород в 1960-е годы Belgorod in the 1960s Музыка: Николай Гнатюк - Белгород Music: Nikolaj Gnatjuk - Belgorod Belgorod is a city and the administrative centre of Belgorod Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the Seversky Donets River, just 40 km north of the border with Ukraine... The name Belgorod in Russian literally means "White city", combining "белый" (bely, "white, light") and "город" (gorod, "town, city"). The city thus acquired its name because the region was rich in limestone... Records of the original settlement go back as fart as 1237, when the mongol hordes ravaged the settlement. In 1596 Tsar Feodor Ioannovich of Russia ordered its re-establishment as one of numerous forts set up to defend Muscovy's Southern borders from the Crimean Tatars. In the 17th century Belgorod suffered repeatedly from Tatar incursions, against which Russia built (from 1633 to 1740) an earthen wall, with twelve forts, extending upwards of 200 miles (320 kilometres) from the Vorskla in the west to the Don in the east, and called these fortifications the Belgorod line. In 1666 the Moscow Patriarchate established an archiepiscopal see in the town. Tsar Peter the Great visited Belgorod on the eve of the Battle of Poltava (1709). A dragoon regiment had its base in the town until 1917. Following the Revolution, Belgorod was occupied by German troops. Under the terms of the Brest Litovsk Peace Treaty, the demarcation line passed north of the city, Belgorod was included in the Ukrainian state of Hetman P. P. Skoropadsky. On December 20, 1918, after the overthrow of Skoropadsky, hthe city was occupied by the Red Army and became a member of the RSFSR.... From June 23 to December 7, 1919 the city was occupied by the Volunteer Army , part of the white South of Russia . From December 1922, Soviet troopps retook the city. and became part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . During the Great Patriotic War , bloody battles were fought in the vicinity of Belgorod. The city was twice occupied by the Germans - from October 24, 1941 [30] to February 9, 1943 and from March 18 to August 5, 1943. In the second half of the 1950s, chalk works destroyed the remains of the first Belgorod fortress, still preserved on the high coastal promontory of the right bank of the Seversky Donets. At the same time, the unique ancient Kremlin of Belgorod disappeared forever........ Photos from pastvu