Kursk city biography

Fields, cops, hills and meadows! Theodosius Pechersky prayed for us, and - “My joy! And how many heroes gave birth to the heroes for the battles for the Fatherland, Native Earth! I will hear the crying of Yaroslavna until I go into my native fields as it hurts! .. And still, I am ready to disperse the clouds with an unshakable belief: you will be dear, Great people to give birth to great people!

Each nation has its own heroes, their own Kursk Territory, known for by nightingales, is a part of the glorious history of the Russian people. Fatherlands, known since antiquity, inhabited by talented people, the Kursk Territory has rightfully become an important link in the history of the development of the Russian state, being for several centuries a stronghold of Kievan Rus, and then the Moscow state in their struggle with external enemies, in expanding trade ties, in strengthening the economy and defense.

In the complex fate of the Kursk Territory, a special place is occupied by the history of its centuries -old capital - the city of Kursk. For almost a thousand years, he rises on the right bank of the quiet Tuskar River, on the site of the confluence with her a more calm river of chickens, which, according to legend, gave the name to the city. The first written mention of Kursk dates back to the year and is found in the "Life of Theodosius of the Pechersky." The centuries over the ancient settlement of the northerners, which since its origin, has become a reliable outpost on the southern borders of the Russian state and more than once defended Rus' from the steppe nomads.

About the high combat training and courage of the ancient chicken is narrated in the famous "Word of Igor's Regiment". Whatever trials in the centuries -old history fell to the share of the chicken, they always remained at the height of their destiny - to be a particle of sacred Rus', to increase its glory and honor in the affairs of not only military, but also old -sized, trade.

And Kursk could not but become a noticeable trading city, because he stood in a brisk place. Under the Kursk, boats with goods that sailed along the path "from Varangians to the Greeks." The city was part of the Chernihiv, then in the Smolensk, Pereyaslavsky, Suzdal principalities. Having become the center of the specific principality, Kursk steadfastly suffered both internecine clashes of Russian princes, and the devastating Mongol invasion of the Khan Baty.

Nikonovskaya and Lavrentievskaya annals of years are irrefutable: Kursk survived! He adequately suffered all the hardships and hardships and in the year became part of the centralized Russian state with all his principality, remaining still the southern border region of Rus'. The 16th century has become a turning point in the history of Kursk. A new fortress was erected in the year.

By order of the king, a lot of the so -called "translated" - people who were forcibly transferred to military service and other affairs of state importance came here. Kursk gave a shelter to peasants and artisans, homeless and slaves who stretched south, fleeing from the arbitrariness of officials. Many were driving hunger, which covered central Rus' in the years.

Kursk became the military-administrative and economic center of the vast territory in the south of the country. His role in the state increased. The memory of the townspeople still stores the names of the Kursk settlements, talking about the combat statue of the city - Soldier, Disgrass, Streletskaya, Pushkaya, Cossack - remaining in the names of modern Kursk streets.

In Kursk, then there was the most numerous garrison among the southeastern fortifications among the southeastern fortifications. And it is no accident that he withstood the fierce sieges of the Polish-Lithuanian invaders in the years, breaking out the plans of the interventionists and providing tangible assistance to the liberators of Moscow. In the days of the famous Poltava battle, the Kursk province became one of the supporting points of the army of Peter I.

In Kursk was a military hospital, which on December 1 took about a thousand wounded under Poltava of Russian soldiers. In the Patriotic War of the year, although Kursk was not a front -line city, the Kuryans bravely fought under Borodino, and under Tarutino, and under the small Yaroslavl. The patriotic merits of the Kuryans in the supply of the Russian army with weapons, food, clothing, shoes, medicines were marked by Field Marshal M.

not bypassed the chicken and the revolution of G. Many worthy sons of the Kursk Territory participated in the fratricidal civil war on both sides. They left the imprint and tragic years of the totalitarian regime: there was a violent collectivization, and the fight against religion, repression, hunger. But an even more terrible test fell to the share of chicken during the Great Patriotic War.

For more than a month, fighters of the regular army, regiments of the people's militia, fighter battalions restrained enemy troops on distant approaches to Kursk. In early November, the battles unfolded already on the barricades of the city. And only after the order of the Soviet command on the night of November 3, Kursk was left by our troops.Over days, the Kursk region was in the rear of the German troops.

All state enterprises were destroyed, several tens of thousands of residential buildings. Schools, hospitals, theater, circus, the House of the Red Army, a cinema, the buildings of medical and pedagogical institutes, a hotel, bridges, a station, disabled water supply were burned, transported highways were disabled. This was seen by Kursk on February 8, Chernyakhovsky, liberating the city.

And when near Kursk, the largest battle in the history of the world wars unfolded with the German armored armada on the Kursk Bulge, a city, only a few months ago freed from the invaders and who was still in ruins, gave the front everything he could. This victory was given at a high price: on the battlefields, in German captivity, thousands of chicken fell or missed, the names of which were listed in the "Book of Memory", published by the Letor of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of the GG.

In the post -war years, the Kursk region with the heroic efforts of all its inhabitants was restored from the ruins. Having passed all the same complex stages as the state as a whole, the Kursk region has turned into one of the most dynamically developing regions of Central Russia.