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Bombing of Gorky in World War II

Index Bombing of Gorky in World War II

The bombing of Gorky (now known as Nizhny Novgorod) by the Luftwaffe continued from 1941 to 1943 in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. [1]

62 relations: Aleksandr Shcherbakov (politician), Arzamas, Avtozavodsky City District, Nizhny Novgorod, Barrage balloon, Battle of Moscow, Bogorodsk, Bogorodsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Dornier Do 215, Dzerzhinsk, Russia, Eastern Front (World War II), Electrical substation, Garage (residential), GAZ, Gunboat, Heinkel He 111, Joseph Stalin, Junkers Ju 88, Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112, Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3, Lavrentiy Beria, Luftwaffe, Minin and Pozharsky Square, Moscow, Mossovet, Motive power depot, Nazi Germany, NITEL (Russian company), Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, NKVD, Novomoskovsk, Russia, Oka River, Operation Barbarossa, Outpatient clinic (hospital department), People's Commissariat for State Security, Police station, Pravdinsk, Balakhna, Prioksky City District, Red Army, Reichskommissariat Moskowien, Rozhdestvenskaya Street, RUMO Plant, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Saratov, Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg, Sokol Aircraft Plant, ..., Soviet Union, Strategic bombing during World War II, Strigino International Airport, T-60 tank, Vasily Pronin, Volga region, Volga River, Volodarsk, Russia, Vsevolod Merkulov, World War II, Yaroslavl, ZIS-101. Expand index (12 more) »

Aleksandr Shcherbakov (politician)

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Shcherbakov (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Щербако́в; 1901 – 10 May 1945), was a founding member of the Soviet Writers' Union, along with Maxim Gorky.

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Arzamas

Arzamas (Арзама́с) is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Tyosha River (a tributary of the Oka), east of Moscow.

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Avtozavodsky City District, Nizhny Novgorod

Avtozavodsky City District (Автозаво́дский райо́н) or Avtozavod is one of the eight districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

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Barrage balloon

A barrage balloon is a large kite balloon used to defend against aircraft attack by raising aloft cables which pose a collision risk, making the attacker's approach more difficult.

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Battle of Moscow

The Battle of Moscow (translit) was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II.

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Bogorodsk, Bogorodsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Bogorodsk (Богоро́дск) is a town and the administrative center of Bogorodsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Bor (Бор) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the left (northern) bank of the Volga River, across from Nizhny Novgorod.

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Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was de jure the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) between Party Congresses.

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

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Dornier Do 215

The Dornier Do 215 was a light bomber, aerial reconnaissance aircraft and later a night fighter, produced by Dornier originally for export, but in the event most served in the Luftwaffe.

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Dzerzhinsk, Russia

Dzerzhinsk (p) is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located along the Oka River, about east of Moscow.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945.

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Electrical substation

A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system.

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Garage (residential)

A residential garage is a walled, roofed structure for storing a vehicle or vehicles that may be part of or attached to a home ("attached garage"), or a separate outbuilding or shed ("detached garage").

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GAZ

GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (Gorky Automobile Plant) is a Russian automotive manufacturer located in Nizhny Novgorod.

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Gunboat

A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.

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Heinkel He 111

The Heinkel He 111 was a German aircraft designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Junkers Ju 88

The Junkers Ju 88 was a German World War II Luftwaffe twin-engined multirole combat aircraft.

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Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112

Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard No.

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Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3

The Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 (Лавочкин-Горбунов-Гудков ЛаГГ-3) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II.

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Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (p; tr,; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

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Minin and Pozharsky Square

The Minin and Pozharsky Square (. Short-name: Minin Square) is the main square of Nizhny Novgorod.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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Mossovet

Mossovet (Моссовет), an abbreviation of Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies, was the informal name of a.

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Motive power depot

The motive power depot (MPD, or railway depot) is the place where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained when not being used.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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NITEL (Russian company)

Nitel Joint-Stock Company (ОАО «Нител») is a company based in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia.

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Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod (p), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is a city in Russia and the administrative center (capital) of Volga Federal District and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

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Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin (Нижегородский кремль) is a fortress in Nizhny Novgorod, the historic city center.

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Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant

Open joint-stock company (JSC) NMZ or Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant (Нижегородский машиностроительный завод) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) artillery factory in the Sormovo district of Gorky.

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Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University

Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University (Нижегородский государственный технический университет им., NNSTU) is a public technical university in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, founded in 1917.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), abbreviated NKVD (НКВД), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.

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Novomoskovsk, Russia

Novomoskovsk (Новомоско́вск) is a city and the administrative center of Novomoskovsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia, located at the source of the Don and Shat Rivers.

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Oka River

Oka (Ока́) is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Outpatient clinic (hospital department)

An outpatient department or outpatient clinic is the part of a hospital designed for the treatment of outpatients, people with health problems who visit the hospital for diagnosis or treatment, but do not at this time require a bed or to be admitted for overnight care.

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People's Commissariat for State Security

The People's Commissariat for State Security (Народный комиссариат государственной безопасности) or NKGB, was the name of the Soviet secret police, intelligence and counter-intelligence force that existed from February 3, 1941 to July 20, 1941, and again in 1943, before being renamed the Ministry for State Security (MGB).

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Police station

A police station (sometimes called a "station house" in the US) is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff.

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Pravdinsk, Balakhna

Pravdinsk (Пра́вдинск) was an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Balakhninsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, located a few kilometers northwest (upstream along the Volga) from the town of Balakhna.

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Prioksky City District

Prioksky City District (Прио́кский райо́н) is one of the eight districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Reichskommissariat Moskowien

Reichskommissariat Moskowien (also rendered as Moskau, abbreviated as RKM; Рейхскомиссариат Московия), literally "Reich Commissariat of Muscovy (or Moscow)", was the civilian occupation regime that Nazi Germany intended to create in central and northern European Russia during World War II, one of several similar Reichskommissariat.

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Rozhdestvenskaya Street

Rozhdestvenskaya Street — (Рождественская улица Nativity Street) a beautiful historic street in Nizhny Novgorod.

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RUMO Plant

RUMO Plant (РУМО) is a company based in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia and established in 1916.

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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Ru-Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика.ogg), also unofficially known as the Russian Federation, Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I or Russia (rɐˈsʲijə; from the Ρωσία Rōsía — Rus'), was an independent state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest, most populous, and most economically developed union republic of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991 and then a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991.

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Saratov

Saratov (p) is a city and the administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River located upstream (north) of Volgograd.

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Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg

Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg (1900–1943) was a Soviet tank designer.

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Sokol Aircraft Plant

Sokol Aircraft Plant (Sokol Aircraft-Building Plant) is a manufacturer of MiG fighters, based in Nizhny Novgorod.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Strategic bombing during World War II

Strategic bombing during World War II was the sustained aerial attack on railways, harbours, cities, workers' housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory during World War II.

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Strigino International Airport

Strigino Airport (Аэропорт Стригино (also referred to as Nizhny Novgorod International Airport (Международный аэропорт Нижний Новгород)) is the international airport serving the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It is located on the outskirts of the city's Avtozavodsky District, 14 km (8.5 mi) southwest of city centre. Strigino is responsible for serving the 3,281,000 residents of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

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T-60 tank

The T-60 scout tank was a light tank produced by the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1942.

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Vasily Pronin

Vasily Prokhorovich Pronin (Васи́лий Про́хорович Про́нин; 25 December 1905 – 12 October 1993) was a Soviet statesman and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council of Laborers' Deputies (today's equivalent of mayor) between 14 April 1939 and 7 December 1944.

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Volga region

The Volga Region (Поволжье, Povolzhye, literally: "along the Volga") is an historical region in Russia that encompasses the drainage basin of the Volga River, the longest river in Europe, in central and southern European Russia.

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Volga River

The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe.

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Volodarsk, Russia

Volodarsk (Волода́рск) is a town and the administrative center of Volodarsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Seyma River (Oka's tributary) west of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Vsevolod Merkulov

Vsevolod Nikolayevich (Boris) Merkulov (Всеволод Николаевич Меркулов in Russian) (– 23 December 1953) was the head of NKGB from February to July 1941, and again from April 1943 to March 1946.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl (p) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow.

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ZIS-101

ZIS-101 was a limousine produced by the Soviet car manufacturer Zavod Imeni Stalina.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Gorky_in_World_War_II

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