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  TSARITSYN - LoveToKnow Article on TSARITSYN
Tsaritsyn is the terminus of a railway which begins at Riga and, running south-eastwards, intersects all the main lines which radiate from Moscow to the _south.
Tsaritsyn is also the centre of the trade in the mustard of Sarepta, Dubovka and the neighborhood.
In 1606 Tsaritsyn took part in the rising in favor of the false Demetrius, and Stenka Razin took the town in 1670.
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 Volgograd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Volgograd originated with the foundation in 1589 of the fortress of Tsaritsyn at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga rivers.
It was captured twice by Cossack rebels, under Stenka Razin in the rebellion of 1670 and Yemelyan Pugachev in 1774.
Tsaritsyn became an important river port and commercial centre in the 19th century.
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 SARATOV - LoveToKnow Article on SARATOV
Oil-yielding plants are cultivated; linseed in all districts except Tsaritsyn; and mustard, both for grain and oil, extensively about Sarepta and in the Kamyshin district.
The chief ports are Saratov, Tsaritsyn, Kamyshin and Khvalynsk.
Saratov and Tsaritsyn, both protected by forts, arose in the second half of the 16th century.
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 Astrakhan Cossacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was settled along the right bank of the Volga River from Astrakhan to Cherniy Yar (a town in the Astrakhan Oblast).
In the early 19th century, the regiment was reinforced with the Cossaks from Tsaritsyn, Kamyshin, Saratov, and also with the remnants of the Volga Cossaks, some Kalmyks and Tatars.
The Astrakhan Cossack Host possessed 4 stanitsas next to Tsaritsyn, Saratov, Cherniy Yar and Krasniy Yar, 16 yurt stanitsas, 57 khutors (farms), and 808,000 desyatinas of land.
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 OFFICIAL WEB-SITE OF THE CITY OF VOLGOGRAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The steppe was a place of choice for the city originally called Tsaritsyn and built on the island where the Tsaritsa river flows into the Volga.
The deep province of the Russian Empire at the turn of the XIX century and in the early XX century Tsaritsyn developed into a large industrial and cultural center of the country.
To mark the distinguished public service the city had performed for the homeland during the times of the Civil War it was handed the Banner of the Revolution of the VCIK and awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
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 Visit Siberia Ltd. :: Russia inside :: Cities :: Volgograd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
At the beginning of the 17th century Tsaritsyn burned down - and a new settlement was constructed in 1615 on the right bank of the Volga.
In 1722 and 1723 the city Peter I and presented it to his wife Ekaterina I. To 1731 Tsaritsyn became the center of the military border line from the Volga to the Don.
In 1708 Tsaritsyn was included in Kazan' province, in 1719 - in Astrakhan' province, and since 1773 it has been a pert of Saratov region.
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 Master Rallye 2002: Course : The Sands of Don   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
For this reason in 1589 a watch fortress, that later became the town of Tsaritsyn, was built on the bank of Volga.
Tsaritsyn has witnessed multiple revolts of Cossacks, peasants and villeins, but the largest battle it had ever seen (Stalingrad at that time) was the one that lasted from July 1942 to February 1943.
In 1762 by order of Russian Empress Catherine II a manifesto was issued, inviting the migrators from Europe to settle in Russia, in Tsaritsyn.
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 Gorod.Tsaritsyn font family : MyFonts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The city of Tsaritsyn was founded in 1589 as a fortress for protection of Russian lands against attacks of Mongol-Tatar armies.
This city was a witness of the “senseless and ruthless” (as Alexander Pushkin wrote on his “The Captain Daughter” narrative) peasants uprisings under the leadership of Stepan Rasin (1670) and Emelian Pugatchov (1774), and at the beginning of XVIII century it was the center of Cossack self-goverment during Bulavin’s revolt.
In the Civil War 1918-1919 Tsaritsyn city became the region of severe battles between the Red Army of Workers and Peasants and the nobleman White Guard.
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 Russian Cities
The fortress was laid down on the Volga island in 1589, but in 1608 moved to the right (west) bank of the Volga River, where the city had been developing.
Tsaritsyn was a witness to many historical events.
In response to an invitation made by Catherine II (the Great) to settle the Russian hinterlands, Tsaritsyn experienced its first influx of foreign settlers in 1765, who were mostly from Germany.
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 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
The steppe between the Volga and the Don had been the scene of fierce battles for many centuries, and Tsaritsyn was given the task of defending the Russian lands and the great Volga route from nomad raids.
Soviet rule was established in Tsaritsyn in November 1917, and the city followed Petrograd as a bastion of the Revolution.
Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad in 1925 in honor of Josef Stalin, who had personally taken part in the defense of Tsaritsyn in 1919.
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 ..:: Rousse municipality ..::.. Община Русе ::..   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Volgograd was established in the late 16th century as a fortress called Tsaritsyn.
Tsaritsyn lost its strategic military importance in the 19th century.
Tsaritsyn was renamed into Stalingrad on 6 April 1925.
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 War with Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Despite the quantities of armament he had received, Kolchak's forces were not large--in the order of 100,000--so it must be presumed that he, like the other counter-revolutionary leaders, was counting on popular support where his army invaded or even on insurrections in the Bolshevik rear.
Its objective was to capture Tsaritsyn and coordinate its operations with those of Kolchak's.
Tsaritsyn did fall to Wrangel's troops but that was in June and Kolchak was already on the defensive.
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 Boulder Games-StoreFront Product Detail Page
Tsaritsyn simulates the 1919 Russian Civil War battle near a city of the Volga that would later be named Stalingrad.
The colorful counters (90 for Tsaritsyn and 36 for Assault) are cardstock and have to be mounted and cut-out.
The components for Graft Spee are fl & white and have to be photocopied and then mounted and cut-out.
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 TELEGRAM TO V   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Army] and Borba [ ‘Struggle’ – began publication in May 1917 as the organ of the Tsaritsyn Committee of the RSDLP(B), and towards the end of 1917 became the organ of the Tsaritsyn Soviet of Workers Soldiers, Peasants and Cossacks’ Deputies.
It is on Tsaritsyn that the enemy is concentrating his heaviest fire.
That is the chief reason for the stubborn efforts of the southern whiteguards to capture Tsaritsyn.
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 Reach Volgograd for Christ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The statue is of two bearded, 16th century sentinels, standing with spear in-hand, guarding the southern entrance to the Volga on behalf of the Tsar.
When Tsaritsyn was founded, it could hardly be called a city- an "outpost" at best.
Eventually, the settlement developed into a city and kept the name "Tsaritsyn" until it was renamed "Stalingrad" in 1925.
www.hope4volgograd.com /volgograd.html   (1638 words)

  
 Shinkarenko1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Perhaps in the future one will see a Red infantry of superior value but up to the present the infantry elements of that army, except for very rare exceptions, showed themselves to be very flimsy (to the point of dropping their weapons quickly enough) and with pitiful training.
One may ask me why, having chosen the battle of Tsaritsyn to illuminate the question, I was not able to find some episodes where the shock [of a charge] had taken place.
All the embedded ideas at the battles of the Kuban, Tsaritsyn, Northern Tauridia, are as old as the soul of cavalry itself, ideas somewhat forgotten under the influence of technical progress, but which have to retake their place in the war of tomorrow.
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 City Of Tsaritsyn : MyFonts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Symbols of Normal and Bold styles have the cut strokes (sans serif), symbols of Italic styles have no an inclination, but have the sharp counterstrokes (serifs) at the ends of vertical strokes and at the corners for the greater expressiveness.
But the outpost was burnt at the beginning of XVII century and then was built up anew now on the bank of the Volga not far from the Mamaev Hill that became afterwards “the main height of Russia”.
This city was a witness of “the senseless and ruthless” peasant uprisings under the leadership of Stepan Rasin (1670) and Emelyan Pugatchov (1774), and at the beginning of XVIII century it was the center of Cossack self-goverment during Bulavin’s revolt.
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 Wargames Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A fraction of the force reached Tsaritsyn, only to be caught and butchered by the White Cossack division known as ‘Shkouro’s Wolves’.
The Red Volga flotilla was able to operate between Tsaritsyn and Astrakhan on the shores of the Caspian.
By 18th August preparations for the evacuation of Tsaritsyn were complete when a Cossack cavalry division prompted the White forces to dig in against an expected attack by the Red 10th and 11th Armies.
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 Volgograd and Volzhsky Travel
Volgograd, founded in 1589 as a stronghold to defend Russia’s newly acquired land guarding the trade route along the Volga river, the city was originally called Tsaritsyn.
Tsaritsyn fell to the Cossack rebels under Stepan Razin in 1670.
In 1717 along with other cities in the area, Tsaritsyn is flattened as a result of a strong attack by the Crimean and Kubanskij Tatars.
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 Volgogard : Medical universities, colleges admissions, global educational consultancy, Indian consultants for medical ...
Volgograd (Tsaritsyn, Stalingrad) is a regional center, a port on the Volga River and an important railway junction; it stretches 70km along the right bank of the Volga at its lower reaches.
The climate is sharply continental with a mean January temperature of 5C below zero and a July temperature of +24 C. Volgograd was founded in 1589 as the Tsaritsyn forte outpost set to guard the Volga trade route form nomad attacks.
By the mid 10th century Tsaritsyn had become a fairly important economic centre of the Lower Volga region with developed iron and steel industry.
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 Stamporama Discussion Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tsaritsyn became Stalingrad after Stalin's forces successfully defended it against the White armies in 1918-19.
Founded as Tsaritsyn (pronounced "tsar-EAT-sin") in 1589, it was long an important strategic post on the Volga.
In response to an invitation given by Tsarista Catherine II (the Great) to settle the hinterlands of Russia, Tsaritsyn experienced its first influx of foreign settlers-- mostly from Germany.
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 TSARITSYN - Online Information article about TSARITSYN
Astrakhan is transferred from the rail-way to boats at Tsaritsyn; See also:
Tsaritsyn is also the centre of the trade in the See also:
The buildings of the town includea public library, and the See also:
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 Bertrand M. Patenaude: The Big Show in Bololand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bertrand M. Patenaude is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer in the Department of History at Stanford University.
The mobilization of the camels on such a scale was as extraordinary as the purpose for which they had been drafted.This is confirmed by a Russian inspector of the ARA who was present in a Tsaritsyn village when the locals received word that the Americans were waiting for them to come to a distribution point.
John Foy, a relief worker in Tsaritsyn, became renowned for his extraordinary expeditions into the famine zone in his Ford “flivver.” Foy motored into isolated regions where only the camel roamed, single-handedly engaging highwaymen and time and again drawing on his remarkable resourcefulness to bring his trademark flivver back to life.
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 Pirates & Privateers: The History of Maritime Piracy - Stepan Razin
He seized trading vessels belonging to the tsar and the patriarch, appropriated their rich cargoes, and released political prisoners bound for Astrakhan and Terki.
When the pirates sailed past the fortress at Tsaritsyn, the guns remained silent.
Tsaritsyn freely opened its gates and threw the slain governor into the river.
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 Volgograd --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It was founded as the fortress of Tsaritsyn in 1589 to protect newly acquired Russian territory along the Volga.
During the Russian Civil War (1918–20), Joseph Stalin organized the defense of the city in a major battle against the White Russian armies, and the city was later renamed…
During the Russian Civil War (1918–20), Joseph Stalin organized the defense of the city in a major battle against the White Russian armies, and the city was...
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 Dobrynin1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The operation thus forced on the Don command was the liberation of the Tsaritsyn to Likhaia railroad so as to [page 61] communicate with the insurgent Cossacks to the north of the Don who were pressing the Reds towards the Griazi to Tsaritsyn railway and the south-east corner of the Voronezh district.
On the Novokhopersk to Tsaritsyn front all the enemy attacks were repelled and towards the end of November it was thrown back on the whole front into Saratov district.
The army was outside Tsaritsyn by 18 January and had to stop to prepare to assault the fortifications.
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 Walking around the city. How it got started.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Formerly and most famously known as Stalingrad, this historic city was founded in 1589 to defend the land that Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible had wrested from the Tatars.
Then known as Tsaritsyn, the city was for the first several centuries of its existence primarily a military stronghold.
century Tsaritsyn was burnt to the ground and then rebuilt of stone on the right bank of the Volga-river.
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 Russian touroperator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1762 the land not far from Tsaritsyn town was presented to people from Germany for settling by the Empress Katherine II Order.
By 1917 the German colony occupied the territory of the Tsaritsyn and Saratov provinces along the Volga river bank.
After 1917 some colonists left for Europe, during the World War II period their descendants were deportated to Middle Asia.
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 VIOLIN BEGINNER MUSIC - FOLK MUSIC FOR THE VIOLIN LEARNER
[VOLGOGRAD was founded in 1589 as Tsaritsyn, a fortress on the SE frontier of Russia.
With the expansion of the Russian Empire in the 19th century, Tsaritsyn became an important port for products shipped down the Volga R. Early in the Russian Revolution the city was taken (1917) by the Bolsheviks.
During the civil war that followed it was occupied by White Russian troops for three months in 1919.
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