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Birth of Vasily Nikolaevich Lyovushkin, Hero of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union

14 June 1922

Василий Николаевич Лёвушкин родился 14 июня 1922 г. в деревне Ясная Поляна Москалёнского района Омской области в семье крестьянина. Окончил начальную школу в Ясной Поляне, учился в соседнем селе Москалёнки. После окончания семи классов школы работал трактористом в колхозе «Серп и Молот».

A heroic defense of the Bayezid Fortress began

18 June 1877

6 (18) June, 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, on the Caucasian theater of war, a small Russian garrison began a heroic defense of the Bayezid Fortress (now Doğubeyazit, in the north-eastern Turkey), which lasted 23 days and went down to history as "Bayazet seat."
 

Birth of Nikolai Alexandrovich Khokhlov, Hero of the Soviet Union, Participant of the Great Patriotic War

18 June 1923

Nikolai Alexandrovich Khokhlov was born on June 18, 1923 in the village of Pachenka, Nizhnetavdinsky District, Tyumen Region. He graduated from a rural school and worked on a collective farm before the war. By the beginning of the war, two older brothers – Philemon and Pavel – had already been drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. In the autumn of 1941, the post office brought a notice of the heroic death of one of them – Philemon.

Stavka (General Headquarters) created in USSR

23 June 1941

On June 23, 1941, the day after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, under the instruction of the Soviet of People’s Commissars of USSR and the All-Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks Central Committee was formed the extraordinary body of the higher military governing – General Headquarters (Stavka) of the USSR Armed Forces.

Victory Parade took place on the Red Square

24 June 1945

June 24, 1945 at 10:00 a.m. on the Red Square, Moscow, took place a parade to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War.

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