Template:Russia portal/Did you know
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...that the phrase of Soviet sniper Roza Shanina "I will return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?
...that Vostochny is the largest eastern port of Russia. The port has year round navigation and has deep water port, suitable for handling large tonnage ships?
...that after Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits, and their children born after the recruitment, were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created Garrison schools?
... that the predecessor to the Imperial Russian Navy first sailed during the Second Azov campaign of 1696 under Peter the Great?
... that the Soviet Red Army's T-10 heavy tank was originally named IS-10 for Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin), but renamed in the climate of de-Stalinization, after Stalin's death in 1953?
... the fictional spy Stirlitz was brought up in Gorokhovets "near the Volga River" according to the Soviet TV series Seventeen Instants of Spring? They discuss plans to erect a monument to him in downtown Gorokhovets?
... that Nikolai Bugaev, father of Andrei Bely was the founder the Moscow Mathematical Society? Through Bugaev's star student, Dmitri Egorov, many famous Russian mathematicians, such as Andrei Kolmogorov and Nikolai Luzin, directly "descend" from Bugaev-- and thus from the Prince of Mathematicians, Carl Friedrich Gauss?
... that Josef Gusikov invented a xylophone made from wood and straw and became a European sensation playing it in the 1830s?
..... that the Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori in Georgia displays Stalin's personal railway carriage, which is armour plated and weighs 83 tons, and was used by him to attend the Yalta Conference and the Teheran Conference?
