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Tver Angels - Travel Agency and Tours The Town of Ostashkov is a region center in the Tver area. The spacious streets of Ostashkov were laid under the general plan of the 18th century. Ostashkov is located on the southern part of famous Lake Seliger, which represents a whole system of interconnected lakes. www.tverangels.com /travelagency.shtml   (464 words)

[No title] In December a team of officers were delegated to the Ostashkov camp with a duty to carry out an investigation of all the policemen with an order to prepare the records of investigation for the Special Board (Osobne Soveshchanie) of the NKVD of the USSR by the end of January 1940. Chased and persecuted with utmost zeal were the services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: officials of the State Police and the autonomous Police of the Province of Silesia, Border Guards and prison guards, as well as military settlers living on the eastern frontiers of the Republic of Poland. Ostashkov is situated 180 km west of Kalinin. www.coldwarhistory.us /Cold_War/Katyn_Massacre/Miednoje__Katyn.htm   (2961 words)

CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Two streets are named for these settlements in modern-day Ostashkov, a quiet provincial town at the center of the Seliger region. When Ostashkov was founded, a wooden wall was built around it because of its proximity to the Russian border. Ostashkov also boasts many old one- and two-story wooden structures, which mingle with the inevitable ugly blocks of apartments. context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2002/08/09/109.html   (1653 words)

RUSNET :: Russia\'s islands of poverty in sea of oil wealth OSTASHKOV, Russia (Reuters) - Tamara Golubeva has heard about the petrodollars flooding Russia's economy, but she is quite certain that she has not seen any of them. Golubeva lives in Ostashkov, a town that symbolizes the challenge President Vladimir Putin faces if he is to turn Russia's huge oil windfall into a better life for the millions living in poverty across the vast country. In Ostashkov, 200 miles northwest of Moscow - a tiny distance by Russian standards - people drive around in battered Lada cars, buildings are boarded up and the big employer, a leather tanning plant, is laying off staff. www.rusnet.nl /news/2005/10/19/print/report01.shtml   (717 words)

Institute of National Remembrance The prisoners in Ostashkov were removed from the camp to the NKVD prison in Kalinin from 5 April 1940 onwards. The task of the brigade in Ostashkov went much further – to gather "incriminating evidence" against prisoners, which was then to be passed to a non-judicial authority, the NKVD Special Conference, for consideration under administrative procedures. Ostashkov – on the basis of lists received from Moscow, the prisoners were taken to the NKVD prison in Kalinin on 5 April 1940, where they were killed by shots to the back of the head in a specially prepared cell. www1.ipn.gov.pl /portal/en/2/77   (12320 words)

Ostashkov - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) OSTASHKOV, a town of Russia, in the government of Tver,. The town has, tanneries, and is a centre for the making of boots and shoes, for agricultural implements, fishing-nets and the building of boats. This page was last modified 18:45, 29 Apr 2006. www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ostashkov   (87 words)

Russian Leather Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) A case of Ostashkov Tannery was published in regional press ("Veche Tveri" of 08.08.2002). Was ownership takeover in Ostashkov tannery a boon? The workmen of the enterprise were to answer two main questions: who shall become the general director of the united plant and on second issue of shares. www.leathernet.ru /eng/news.php?id=6   (893 words)

Virtual Museum of Russian Primitive. Catalogue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Son of the painter from Ostashkov, Mikhail Lukich, known by two surnames - «Voronin» and «Kolokol’nikov» (1710-after 1788). Probably, his first teacher was his father and later he studied at the studios of Ostashkov painters. In 1842 was awarded a degree of a freelance artist in historical and portrait painting. www.museum.ru /museum/primitiv/carde.asp?num=JK_0004   (199 words)

::The Katyn Wood Massacre:: Her body was found at Katyn clothed in the uniform of the Polish Air Force. Ostashkov held officers - but it also held anybody from Poland who was considered to be 'bourgeois'. Curiously, the Germans claimed that the way the Russians and Poles had been tied was identical and that whoever did both sets of murders was the same organisation. www.historylearningsite.co.uk /katyn_wood_massacre.htm   (1968 words)

About Staritsa Staraya Russa saw some of the heavier World War 2 fighting as part of the the so-called "swamp front", and the War Museum is certainly worth visiting. War scars are fresh in the area between Staraya Russa and Ostashkov. Ostashkov is on a huge system of lakes, most of which are part of a nature reserves. www.staritsa.info /staritsa/st_petersburg_to_staritsa.htm   (330 words)

O'Malley-->Eden 5/31/43 Starobielsk and Ostashkov to an uncertain destination: how it looks, for instance, to General Sikorski, who there lost Captain Fuhrman, his former A.D.C. and close personal friend; to M. Morawski. In March of 1940 word went round the camp at Kozielk, Starobielsk and Ostashkov that, under orders from Moscow, the prisoners were to be moved to camps where conditions would be more agreeable, and that they might leak forward to eventual release. All were cheered by the prospect of a change from the rigours which prisoners must endure to the hazards and vicissitudes of relative freedom in Soviet or German territory. www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /psf/box37/t334p03.html   (534 words)

Katyn History On September 17, in conjunction with the Nazi, forces of the Soviet Union crossed the eastern border of Poland on the pretense they would protect the Polish people. More than 15,000 Polish Officers were sent to NKVD (Soviet Secret Police) prison camps at Kozielsk, Starobielska and Ostashkov in the Soviet Union. For several months, the Polish prisoners of war were interrogated by the NKVD about their political beliefs, family backgrounds, and education. www.polishcommunity.com /katyn2/Katyn/katyn_history.htm   (926 words)

Furniss Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) She visited from Ostashkov Children's Home in the Tver region of Russia. Alex was quite worried about his sister, and could not rest until she was with us. He looked forward to going to Ostashkov with us to pick her up, and is a very protective big brother." www.kidsave.org /furniss_family.shtml   (291 words)

THE KATYN WOODS MASSACRE It was at three particular prisons in the confines of Russia that the beginning of the Katyn woods massacre came into being. The three camps were named Kozielsk, Starobielsk, and Ostashkov and they held over fourteen thousand Polish prisoners-of-war behind their barbed wire and walls. There were three thousand nine hundred and twenty prisoners at Starobielsk, four thousand five hundred at Kozielsk, and six thousand five hundred and sixty-seven at Ostashkov. www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/EE/Poland/KATYN.html   (1109 words)

Ordinary Russians get nothing from petrodollar bonanza - 13 Oct 2005 - Russia Tamara Golubeva has heard about the petrodollars flooding Russia's economy, but she is quite certain she has not seen any of them. Golubeva lives in Ostashkov, a town that symbolises the challenge President Vladimir Putin faces if he is to turn Russia's huge oil windfall into a better life for the millions living in poverty. In Ostashkov, 320km northwest of Moscow - a tiny distance by Russian standards - people drive battered Lada saloons, buildings are boarded up and the big employer, a leather tanning plant, is laying off staff. www.nzherald.co.nz /location/print.cfm?l_id=87&objectid=10349905   (434 words)

OSTASHKOV - Article en ligne de l'information environ OSTASHKOV OSTASHKOV - Article en ligne de l'information environ OSTASHKOV L'emplacement avantageux, la proximité de la monastère de Smolenskiy Zhitnyi, une ressource de pélerin sur une île du lac et le développement précoce de certains commerces petits ont combiné pour apporter la prospérité à Ostashkov. Il n'y a aucun commentaire pourtant pour cet article. encyclopedia.jrank.org /fr/ORC_PAI/OSTASHKOV.html   (337 words)

Katyn 2004 After the war, it was established that at least 2,000 prisoners from Starobielsk and Kozielsk camps contacted their families. No letters were ever received from men in the Ostashkov camp. The reason was that of the men on Ostashkov, only a very small number were officers. www.pacwashmetrodiv.org /events/katyn   (608 words)

News. Ostashkov leather factory opened a subsidiary in S. Petersburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Ostashkov leather factory opened a subsidiary in S. Petersburg Interkozha-S.Petersburg, subsidiary of ZAO Ostashkov Tannery (Tver region) in Saint Petersburg, started its work as of 11th of February. The creation of the subsidiary will enable to increase the share of the Ostashkov Tannery in Russia's North-Western region market of raw hides and finished leather. www.leathernet.ru /e_n208.htm   (78 words)

Gorodomlya Island According to Aleksei Vasiliev, the keeper of the local museum in Ostashkov, mid-19th century maps show a lone house of a forester on the island. Groups of German housewives were usually allowed biweekly trips with the escort to Ostashkov on the southern shore of the Seliger Lake to make purchases at local shops and at the produce market. On April 9, 1949, Dmitry Ustinov, the head of the Ministry of Armaments in charge the rocket industry, made it to Gorodomlya Island, after being stuck in Ostashkov for few days by thawing ice on the Lake Seliger. www.russianspaceweb.com /gorodomlya.html   (5935 words)

Amazon.com: Ostashkov: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Ozero Seliger: Putevoditel§ : Turbaza Sokol, Ostrov Khachin, Ozero Beloe, Ostashkov, Nilova Pustyn§, Derevnia Neprie : osobennosti rybnoi lovli na Seligere--leshch,... 5/6 Dec Ostashkov -~ ~- alinin  \ Y a Klin mitrov 00ge... The inmates of the two other officers' camps, Ostashkov and Starobiel'sk, have not been accounted for to this day;... www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Ostashkov&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1   (919 words)

Mathematician born in Ostashkov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Click on a place on the map to see the mathematician(s) born there. The markers on the left point to Ostashkov. Click HERE to see a map with the names of all the places marked. www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/BirthplaceMaps/Ostashkov.html   (64 words)

National Katyn Memorial Foundation They seized some 250,000 Polish military personnel and sent over 20,000 army, navy, air force and frontier-guard officers to three prison camps in the Soviet Union: Kozielsk, Starobielsk, and Ostashkov. These graves contained the bodies of the murdered officers from the Starobielsk and Ostashkov camps. In 1992, the Russian President released to Poland secret documents, including the death sentences signed by Stalin and by the head of the NKVD at the time of the atrocities. www.katynbaltimore.com /massacre.html   (893 words)

Tver Region Championship 2002 Seliger Ostashkov 7 0 0 7 5-27 0 Stanitsa (Konakovo District) - Seliger Ostashkov - 4-0 Seliger Ostashkov - Stanitsa (Konakovo District) - 3-0 (awarded) www.angelfire.com /ks2/volga/region2002.html   (324 words)

Train #15 Convincing request not to copy and not to use somewhere brought on page without co-ordination with me. E-mail is here! Tracks of the station Ostashkov at the "Bologoye" side. Tracks of the station Ostashkov at the "Velikie Looki" side. vokzal.ivk.ru /t15.htm   (171 words)

The Polish "Katyn Massacre" Memorial site at Mednoye/Ymok, north of Tver, Russia. The massacre and consequent burial site was finally admitted and disclosed by the USSR in April 1990, after 50 years shameful denial of the truth. To this day there are diehards, Russians and others, who still say the Polish dead were all shot by the Nazis, and blamed on the Soviets; all evidence, including documents relating to the massacre, was fabricated to discredit the Soviet Union and the Communist Party. These deluded individuals have never explained how the Poles, held prisoner in Ostashkov by the Soviets in 1940 and found buried in Mednoyne/Tver in 1991, were captured and shot by the Nazis who never held those parts of Russia at any time during WW2. www.katyn.org.au /mednoye.html   (960 words)

Ernst Busch at AllExperts Busch took part in Operation Barbarossa and on 8th September 1941 his 16th Army took Demyansk before taking part in the siege of Leningrad. Despite a counter-attack by the Red Army, Busch's troops held the line from Staraya to Ostashkov. After a brave defence of his position he was promoted to Field Marshal. en.allexperts.com /e/e/er/ernst_busch.htm   (360 words)

World War 2: Katyn Forest Massacre These were the bodies of the officers who became POWs as result of the Soviet Union's invasion and occupation of the Polish Eastern provinces between 1939-1941. Until their death, there were kept in three prison camps: Kozielsk, Starobielsk, and Ostashkov. Katyn Forest has been one of the few locations where Polish POWs were executed in the spring of 1940. www.warsawuprising.com /katyn.htm   (458 words)

Ostashkov, RUS Weather - Forecasts, Radar Maps, Video, and News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Ostashkov, RUS Weather - Forecasts, Radar Maps, Video, and News To use this feature, you must allow the use of Javascript. Get your local forecast with the Windows Live Toolbar and Weather add-in. weather.msn.com /local.aspx?wealocations=wc:24718   (60 words)

The Institute for Education in International Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The Tver region, one of the largest in central Russia, contains significant historical and natural preserves, such as the Ostashkov natural reserve on Lake Seliger. Also of interest are: Staritsa, with its multitude of churches and ethnographic museum, and Ostashkov, with its fully preserved buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries and the enormous Nilov monastery. Tver InterContact Group Institute of Russian Language and Culture* is a private educational and consulting company with a branch in Moscow. internationalmediaprograms.com /tver.htm   (395 words)

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