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  RZHEV - LoveToKnow Article on RZHEV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It isthe terminus of a branch line (85 m.) from the St Petersburg and Moscow railway, and is the centre of a large transit trade between Orel, Kaluga and Smolensk and the ports of St Petersburg and Riga.
In the 12th century Rzhev belonged to the principality of Smolensk.
Under the rulers of Novgorod it became from 1225 a subordinate principality, and in the 15th century the two portions of the town.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RZ/RZHEV.htm   (171 words)

  
 Battles of Rzhev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The formation of the Rzhev salient during the winter of 1941-1942.
However due of the general course of war, in February, 1943 Hitler ordered the troops to leave the Rzhev-Vyazma Salient, and the Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive of March, 1943 turned into a pursuit of the retreating Germans.
During the whole series of the Rzhev battles the losses of the Soviet Army are estimated by nearly 2,000,000 personnel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battles_of_Rzhev   (346 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Rzhev (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Rzhev [ u rzhef´] Pronunciation Key, city (1989 est.
Rzhev, an ancient trade center, was controlled by the Smolensk principality in the 12th cent.
During World War II it was fortified by the Germans as a major bastion on their northern defense line.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Rzhev.html   (169 words)

  
 Staritsa (Starica), Tver region, Russia
The factory called "Vysota" that translates as "altitude" and is located at the exit from Rzhev as you are moving towards Staritsa.
Istra and New Jerusalem, Klin, Tver, Volokolamsk, Yaropolets, Staritsa, Stepurino, Bortenyevo, Rzhev, Torzhok, Vyshny Volochek, Kashin, Valday, Ostashkov, Staraya Russa, Novgorod...
....Istra, New Jerusalem, Klin, Tver, Volokolamsk, Staritsa, Rzhev, Torzhok, Vyshny Volochek, Valday, Ostashkov, Staraya Russa, Novgorod, Vologda, Sergiev Posad....
www.staritsa.info /rzhev.htm   (247 words)

  
 Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive (codenamed Operation Mars) was a World War II strategic offensive launched between 25 November - December of 1942 by Soviet forces against a German salient in the vicinity of Moscow.
It was a major episode in a series of nearly fruitless assaults ( Rzhev Battles) in the directions of Rzhev, Sychevka and Vyazma carried out from January 1942 to March 1943, known as "Rzhev meat grinder" ("Ржевская мясорубка") for its huge losses.
Operation Mars was a joint operation of the Soviet Western Front and Kalinin Front coordinated by Georgy Zhukov.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Mars   (261 words)

  
 Panzer Campaigns - Rzhev '42 - Info Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
These operations, conducted by Zhukov, were meant to reduce the Rzhev salient, destroy the German 9th Army, and tie down reinforcements.
#1125_01_Op_Mars_Campaign: Rzhev ’42 The God of War Unleashed Rzhev Salient, November 25th 1942: The Soviet High Command had been convinced by Marshal Zhukov's proposal that two strategic operations be carried out, almost concurrently, in the winter of 1942.
Basically, the Mars plan was to annihilate the German 9th Army in the Rzhev Salient.
members.shaw.ca /gcsaunders/rzhev_info.html   (954 words)

  
 Rzhev Startail Turmani
The Rzhev Startail is named for the city of Rzhev, which is located approximately 75 miles north of Mocsow.
The Rzhev Startails are vivid and delicate pigeons of a shy temperment, about the size of a Birmingham Roller.
I have heard it said that the breeder of marked pigeons "must be a glutton for punishment" and if this is true, then we Turman breeders must be the worst kind of mental masochists to year after year strive for perfection and year after year just fall short.
startailpigeons.hypermart.net /rzhev_startail_turmani.htm   (1360 words)

  
 The Wargamer - PC Game Review: Panzer Campaigns 9: Rzhev '42   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rzhev '42 is a turn-based, hexagonal, company/battalion level, operational wargame that features a massive Russian winter offensive against heavily fortified German defenses.
The Rzhev salient was a bulge in the line east and north of Smolensk that had seen heavy fighting since October 1941.
The 29 scenarios in Rzhev '42 are all stand-alone, with 13 historical games including the 120-turn August offensive and the 200-turn Operation Mars campaign.
www.wargamer.com /reviews/rzhev_42   (879 words)

  
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The outburst of the hepatitis epidemic was registered in the town on May 30th.
Some 650 ampoules of hepatitis vaccine have been urgently delivered to Rzhev to prevent the progression of the lethal epidemic.
"The small workshop is situated on the outskirts of the town of Rzhev, in a village.
www.russiannewsroom.com /print.aspx?id=4065   (398 words)

  
 All readers and historians know about the course and outcome of the Soviet Stalingrad counteroffensive, code-named ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At Rzhev, however, German Ninth Army had four mobile divisions in their immediate operational reserve (1st and 9th Panzer, and Grossdeutschland and 14th Panzer Grenadier) and three other panzer divisions (9th, 19th, and 20th) within striking distance in a matter of days.
Then, after returning to his description of the Stalingrad victory, he briefly mentions the failure at Rzhev and dismisses the operation as simply a diversion, although it began on 25 November (five days after the commencement of the Stalingrad operation and one day after the encirclement of German Sixth Army) and continued through mid-December.
While armies are admittedly of varying size, Soviet forces at Rzhev were stronger than Soviet forces at Stalingrad and the correlation of forces at Rzhev was more favorable for the Soviet than in the south.
www.geocities.com /infanterieregiment11/engelsRussischeoperatie.html   (1210 words)

  
 Kommersant - New Russia's First Independent Newspaper
Rzhev received 1000 vaccine doses for adults and 1250 doses for children from Novosibirsk yesterday afternoon, enough to last for from seven to ten days but insufficient to meet the region’s requirements in whole.
Oleg Dubov, head of the Oleninsky District, said, at the beginning, the Rzhev Center of Epidemic Control had rejected to provide vaccines.
Any and all reassuring statements of the sanitary services notwithstanding, Rzhev hepatitis has triggered a wave of anxiety in Moscow.
www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=584809   (468 words)

  
 Wargames Board - Against the AI in Korsun & Rzhev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I have played both titles, through not much of Rzhev, but enough to know there is more variaty and more of a challence in Rzhev.
The situation for the Soviet forces in Rzhev is tough, in most of the scenarios.
So I think Rzhev will give you a good mix of scenarios for play against the AI, with the potential for good PBEM games also if it fits later on.
www.wargame.ch /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1996   (645 words)

  
 PRAMO :: English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Among them there are the radiator of steering booster 65115-3419010 made of aluminum finned tube and the charge air cooler.
E ltra», which is located in Rzhev, is a manufacturer of automobile and tractor starters, but it also is mastering manufacture of other newly-designed products.
One of the main purposes of the plant is mastering of manufacture of compact-alternators of new generation of AAK 14V 80-95 À series under the license of “Iskra” company (Slovenia) for VAZ and GAZ automobiles with using of the imported component parts which make the quality and safety of a new alternator better.
www.pramo.ru /eng   (879 words)

  
 Wargames Board - Strategy Article on attacking fortified positions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I wrote the article because of the heavy defensive positions in Rzhev and the overall amount of them in Korea '85 (Modern Campaigns) and Kursk.
The positions in Rzhev are very tough to get through, as I learned in playtesting it.
Note in Rzhev that bunkers plus A rated German defenders are really going to shread you to pieces.
www.wargame.ch /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1999   (561 words)

  
 Rzhev Startailed Pigeons
The Rzhev Startail is named for the city of Rzhev, which is located approximately 75 miles north of Moscow.
It is said that the first Turmans actually came to Moscow as the spoils of defeated Turkish-held cities in the Ukrain during the reign of Princess Olga of Moscow (about 940 AD).
Then in November, another cock took Best Rzhev in a tough and large class for the breed and also Grand Champion at Western Regional meet here in Southwest Oregon -- which was a record breaker in size.
www.feathersite.com /Poultry/Pigeons/Star/BRKStar.html   (1261 words)

  
 Obergefreiter Simon Dietrich
In late January the division was involved in the destruction of enemy forces that had been cut off to the south west of Rzhev and isolated by German counter attacks.
However, on the 25th November 1942 the Soviets launched Operation Mars a new offensive to destroy the Rzhev salient and one of the main assault sectors was at Belyi.
On the first day, with generous tank support, they split open the front of Dietrich's division, which was pushed to the north of the breach after suffering heavy casualties.
home.clara.net /percy/simondietrich.htm   (643 words)

  
 Imaginative Worlds: Explore them with us. - Hepatitis A outbreak sickens over 400 people in Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The first case of hepatitis A was reported in Rzhev on May 30.
Health officials believe the outbreak was caused by beer and nonalcoholic beverages made at a Rzhev brewery.
More than 1,100 people are reported in the region to have had contact with the people who fell ill and the regional government will provide free vaccines for those people, Olga Pishchulina, deputy governor of Tver who heads the regional anti-epidemic commission, told the Itar-Tass news agency.
imaginativeworlds.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3104   (379 words)

  
 Obergefreiter Rüdolf Krieger
It was still here when the Soviets a launched major offensive aimed at eliminating the Rzhev Salient.
Krieger's division was relieved from this sector in late September, possibly because of losses, and was transferred slightly south to another part of the salient.
Although this attempt was soundly defeated, the heavy casualties sustained, together with the disaster at Stalingrad, resulted in the decision to evacuate the Rzhev salient and take up a shorter defensive line.
home.clara.net /percy/rudolfkrieger.htm   (802 words)

  
 Operational Situation Report USSR No. 133
In the course of the advance of Army Group Center, a number of newly-occupied towns like Briansk, Ordzhonikedzegrad, Uritski, Gzhatsk, Rzhev were also treated according to SD methods by the Kommandos of the Einsatzgruppe.
Once again one can state generally that the civilian population of the towns that are now occupied by our troops were systemitically evacuated [by the Soviets] quite a while ago.
The few remaining Jews are accomodated in a forced labor camp and are ready to be used as skilled artisans.
www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com /osr133.html   (1967 words)

  
 ZHUKOV'S GREATEST DEFEAT
By the time Zhukov's guns were opening fire along the Vazuza River and near Belyi and Rzhev, the armored spearheads of Vasilevsky's Southwestern and Stalingrad Fronts had already united near Kalach on the Don, locking almost 300,000 hapless German and Rumanian troops in the Stalingrad cauldron.
The success of Vasilevsky's Operation Uranus surprised even its planners, and the bag of surrounded enemy troops was far larger than they had anticipated in their wildest dreams.
The Germans abandoned the Rzhev salient in March, just as Zhukov, unknown to them, was implementing another offensive scheme designed to accomplish what he had failed to accomplish in Operation Mars.
www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~insrisg/bookmarks/bk01/0705zhukov.htm   (1296 words)

  
 Obergefreiter Paul Marx
Armee and was occupying defensive positions to the north of Rzhev.
On the 30th July 1942 the Soviets launched major offensive designed to recapture Rzhev and destroy 9.
The first part of this offensive, launched by 30th Army, struck at German defences north of Rzhev ( see map [15KB]).
www.percy.clara.net /paulmarx.htm   (762 words)

  
 IRR: German war memorial in Rzhev provokes opposition
The German Popular Union for the Care of War Graves has been given permission to build a cemetery and war memorial to German troops in Rzhev, a small town on the upper Volga, west of Moscow.
Some 9000 Soviet citizens were shot, starved or tortured to death in a concentration camp set up in the centre of the town.
The head of Rzhev's local history society and the liberal daily newspaper Izvestiya are supporting the project, pointing out that scores of German war cemeteries already exist in the former Soviet Union.
www.irr.org.uk /europebulletin/russia/extreme_right_politics/1997/ak000002.html   (252 words)

  
 BF1942 - Rzhev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Battlefield 1942 map based on a german attack on the city of Rzhev.
This map is based upon the german attack on the Russian city of Rzhev.
The germans have to attack the city through the entrance and cap out the Russian defenders, while the Russians have to hold onto the 4 control points in the city.
www.fileplanet.com /134731/130000/fileinfo/BF1942---Rzhev   (133 words)

  
 Panzer Campaigns - Rzhev '42   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Operation Mars was meant to destroy the German 9th Army.
Here is the start of the Designer Notes, the Campaign Overview and a screenshot of a small piece of the campaign.
Rzhev '42 is a Panzer Campaign Project led by Mike Avanzini.
members.shaw.ca /gcsaunders/rzhev.html   (244 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Fascist Memorial Opened in Rzhev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The city of Rzhev is a sacred place for all Russians, because Soviet soldiers shed their blood there in a battle for the motherland.
It was also said that citizens of Rzhev and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church ignored the appeals of the mayor to visit the opening ceremony.
A citizen of Rzhev, chairman of the Tver Regional Union of War Veterans Yury Tyulin, once addressed the Speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov.
all.newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/10/02/37609.html   (2724 words)

  
 [No title]
This has occurred despite the fact that the city was one of the focal points in the titanic Battle of Moscow in 1941.
While few readers are familiar with the Red Army’s defensive fighting around Rzhev and Kalinin in October 1941, most know of the army’s more famous Kalinin [Rzhev] offensive of December 1941.
Only today, over 50 years after war’s end, are Rzhev and many other cities near which these forgotten battles occurred and around which thousands of Red Army soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice receiving the recognition they so richly deserve.
www.tellur.ru /~historia/archive/04-00/glantz.htm   (4107 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Red Army forces occupy Rzhev as the Germans withdraw from the exposed postion.
Soviet attacks north of Kharkov continue to gain ground as Lgov, west of Kursk, is captured.
However, the attack could not be forces over the Donets River as the ice on the river was breaking up preventing bridging operations.
www.bartcop.com /arc4303.htm   (2179 words)

  
 Document 76
The teacher and Komsomol member Galina Mukhartova, from a poor Proletarian kolkhoz family, twenty two years old, was in her fourth year of teaching at Elementary Secondary [incomplete secondary] Uspenskoe school in Kalinin Oblast under the Rzhev RIK and the Lunacharsky Village Soviet.
Starting at her job in September 1935, Galina Mukhartova to her great misfortune met this Rudochenkov, who was an Educator at the children’s home there, I don’t know who put him in his job.
On 11 April 1936 this case was considered in open session by the Rzhev People’s Court with Comrade Vakatov presiding and Comrade Kozopoliansky as State Procurator and Investigator, and it did not find us to be the injured parties, the mother Fedos’ia Gur’ianova and the brothers Aleksandr Mukhartov and Stepan Mukhartov.
www.yale.edu /annals/siegelbaum/English_docs/Siegelbaum_doc_76.htm   (628 words)

  
 SIA CHECHENPRESS || PRESS || "It is also a punishment for sins"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The quantity of patients increases more and more, there are no enough places in hospitals, and as it has always been in this country, authorities carefully conceal statistics of the epidemic and already search for the "spies" informing the "Caucasus-center" about it, despite of secrecy...
Eventually, it is unimportant, where the infection comes from: whether from beer, or from lemonade of a local factory, or from the Volga, on which there is Rzhev, from which rusty pipe it has poured out...
The more important thing is that the events in Rzhev and other cities have, as well as a lot in modern Russia, a mystical sense.
www.chechenpress.co.uk /english/news/2005/06/20/04.shtml   (1433 words)

  
 HPS Simulations: Panzer Campaigns--Rzhev '42
Click here for a list of improvements made to the Panzer Campaigns series with the release of Rzhev '42
- Rzhev '42 can be viewed and played in either 2d or 3d mode.
A new "quick play" feature allows the computer AI's turn to resolve ten times the previous speed, allowing for much faster play.
www.hpssims.com /pages/products/PZC/PZC_rzhev/rzhev.html   (340 words)

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