The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by John Hilly » 10 Oct 2014 19:15

Quite right fuser! How did you find the answer?

Georgy Zhukov recalled that on 1 September 1941 he was summoned to the telegraph machine Poskrebyshev and conveyed the request of Stalin on the need to stay in the GHQ. At that Zhukov said the following: "Just now received adverse information about 211th Division, which operated in the area Roslavl The division moved back for 5-6 kilometers and has created a disadvantage for the 149th Infantry Division. Due to the complexity of the situation, I would like to leave on at night to the site of the 211th Division and there to restore order. "

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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by fuser » 10 Oct 2014 19:34

How did you find the answer?
From an old bookmark about Zhukhov's memoir.

Okay, my question, Identify this man :

He commanded a cavalry division in invasion of Georgia
He was executed in the purges
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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by John Hilly » 11 Oct 2014 20:22

Did you mean Dmitry Petrovich Zhloba?

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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by fuser » 12 Oct 2014 09:22

Yup, nice job.

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Post by John Hilly » 12 Oct 2014 16:39

Thanks. It took lots of googling and translator use. I already found him, but dropped him off because he had previously commanded Cavalry Corps. Then after all returned to him.

Back to 1941...

To build the Rzhev-Viaz'ma line and the Mozhaisk line of defenses, in addition to engineer and contruction units, wide use was made of local population, including residents of Moscow.
But who built the fortifications in the area of Olenino?

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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by Graham Clayton » 12 Oct 2014 23:43

4th NKVD Field Construction unit?
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Post by John Hilly » 13 Oct 2014 13:44

Graham Clayton wrote:4th NKVD Field Construction unit?
Well I understood Lopukhovsky so that prisoners did the actual work under the 4th NKVD supervision. :roll:

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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by Graham Clayton » 13 Oct 2014 23:12

Thanks J-P.

My question:

Which Soviet soldier visited the White House in August 1942?
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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by fuser » 14 Oct 2014 08:47

Ludmila Pavlyuchenko. :thumbsup:
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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by Mr.No one » 14 Oct 2014 08:53

Hopefully googling is accepted... :)

My found: Ludmila Pavlyuchenko...?

Soviet sniper with 309 kills, invited to the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Initially I thought you meant Molotov in May 1942...

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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by Mr.No one » 14 Oct 2014 08:53

Wow, how to get beaten!!!

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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by fuser » 14 Oct 2014 08:58

Sorry.....................Not :P
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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by Graham Clayton » 14 Oct 2014 10:38

fuser wrote:Ludmila Pavlyuchenko. :thumbsup:
fuser,

Correct:

http://soviet-awards.com/digest/pavlich ... henko2.htm

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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by fuser » 14 Oct 2014 14:21

A tank design bureau which made various prototypes but most of them never saw the daylight except for one design (I won't say the name) of which total 12000 were produced. Oh and it was here that Mikhail Koshkin, the famous designer of T34 first worked and gained his experience, during the purges, this bureau was gutted.

Identify this bureau.
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Re: The official AHF Soviet Union 1917-1945 quiz thread

Post by fuser » 15 Oct 2014 06:56

One of their designs :

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