Days of the military glory of Russia are victories of the
Russian arms that played the decisive role in the history
of Russia.
The following days of military glory are celebrated in the Russian Federation:
April 18 – Victory of Alexander Nevsky over the German knights on Lake Peipus (Battle on the Ice, 1242)
September 21 – Victory of the Russian troops headed by Dmitry Donskoy over the tatar-mongols in the Kulikovo
battle (1380)
November 7 – Liberation of Moscow from the Polish invaders by the people’s army of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry
Pozharsky (1612)
July 10 – Victory of the Russian army headed by Peter the Great over the Swedish army in the Poltava battle
(1709)
August 9 – The first victory of the Russian Navy headed by Peter the Great over the Swedes at the Gangut cape
(1714)
December 24 – Capture of Izmail fortress (Turkey) by the Russian troops headed by Alexander Suvorov (1790)
September 11 – Victory of the Russian squadron headed by Fedor Ushakov over the Turkish squadron at the
Tendra cape (1790)
September 8 – Borodino battle of the Russian army headed by Mikhail Kutuzov with the French army (1812)
December 1 – Victory of the Russian squadron headed by Pavel Nakhimov over the Turkish squadron at the
Sinop cape (1853)
February 23 – Victory of the Red Army over the German Keiser’s army (1918) – Days of Defenders of the
Motherland
December 5 – Launch of the counteroffensive of the Soviet army against the German fascist army at the battle of
Moscow (1941)
February 2 - Defeat of the German fascist army by the Soviet army in the Stalingrad battle (1943)
August 23 – Defeat of the German fascist army by the Soviet army in the Kursk battle (1943)
January 27 – Raising of the Leningrad blockade (1944)
May 9 – Victory Day of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945 (1945)
WHO LIVED in CRIMEA
• I-st –III th centuries BC -Basporous kingdom, Scythians,
Greeks, Sarmations, Goths
• Second part III th century BC –Huns
• VIII th centuries -Byzantine Empire and Khazar Khanate
• IX th century Pechenegs and Russes
• 3 d July 964 prince Svyatoslav defeated Khazar Khanate the
Khazar part of Crimea transfers to the authority of the
Russian Tmutarakansky princedom
• In 988 Prince Vladimir, who later christened the entire Rus,
was christened there, in ancient Hersones
• XIII th century the Mongol invasions as part of the Golden
Horde.
• XVth - XVIIIth centuries theOttoman Empire conquered
the coastal areas as well and made constant raids on
Russian state
The modern history of Crimea
begins with the annexation by the Russian Empire in
1783
1768-1774 RUSSIAN -Turkish War
2 February 1784 The Taurida Oblast was created by a
decree of Catherine the Great
22 December 1790 Suvorov successfully stormed the
reputedly impregnable fortress of Ismail in Bessarabia
1853—1856 the Crimean war, a conflict fought between
the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire,
theBritish Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of
Sardinia, and the Duchy of Nassau
SOVIET PERIOD
On 19 February 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the transfer of
the Crimean region of the RSFSR( Russian Federation)
to the Ukrainian SSR.[28] This Supreme Soviet Decree
states that this transfer was motivated by "the
commonality of the economy, the proximity, and close
economic and cultural relations between the Crimean
region and the Ukrainian SSR".