Daniel Johnson

After the encirclement and destruction of German forces at Stalingrad, almost all operations are surrounded by any of the factions of the Wehrmacht received the informal name "the second Stalingrad" or "new Stalingrad". While almost all conducted by the red Army offensive, as after the battle of Stalingrad and the beginning of the war had the aim to encircle any German troops. But unlike Stalingrad, even in cases when they could surround it, are not always formed with the second part — to destroy.

In Oberhof is the seventh stage of the world Cup Luge port. Russian Semyon Pavlichenko won the second place in singles.

Under the "unique tank battles" usually refers to cases where one tank crew fought against large numbers of enemy tanks and won. However, most of the stories written during wartime for propaganda purposes and does not withstand objective examination. Stories about the tank that was hit in one battle fifteen to twenty enemy vehicles and is easy to find. But when checking data, it appears that the enemy tanks is less than our tank was not alone, and attended the infantry and artillery. And this is only the case if such a battle really took place.

Soviet prisoners of war in Nazi Germany were kept in extremely poor conditions that led to their high mortality. After the war, the Nazis tried to pin the blame on the Soviet leadership, which has not signed the Geneva Convention of 1929 on the treatment of prisoners of war. If the conditions of detention of soldiers in captivity better if Moscow acceded to the Treaty?

Qatar started a football tournament with participation of three clubs of the Russian Premier League "Locomotive", "Spartak" "Rostov" and the Serbian "Partizan". The first took the field "the locomotive" and "Partizan".

In Nepal during a workout died 15-year-old Australian tennis player Kent Yamazaki. The cause of death is still unknown.

During the Civil war in Russia (1917-1922) all Russian officers had sooner or later to make a difficult choice in favor of red or white. The exception was not young air force. In their ranks were already a lot of genuine heroes.

The former midfielder of "Anji" and now a Chelsea player Willian in the summer move to Barcelona. The Catalans have secured the consent of the 31-year-old Brazilian.

In Melbourne decided the winner of the Open championship of Australia on tennis. She was an American Sofia Kenin, who was born in Moscow. In the final, Sophia won Garbinie the Spaniard Muguruza in three sets 4:6, 6:2, 6:2.

Tuva, more precisely, the Tuvan people's Republic, has long been an area of interest of the USSR. The Soviet Union, the first in 1924, recognized the independence of TNR, and in 1944 Tuva joined the Soviet Union.