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Women played a part in most of the armed forces of the Second World War. In most countries though, women tended to serve mostly in administrative, medical and in auxiliary roles. But in the Soviet Union women fought also in front line roles. Over 800,000 women served in the Soviet armed forces in World War II, mostly as medics and nurses, which ...
The current tally of women in the Russian Army stands at around 115,000 to 160,000, representing 10% of Russia's military strength. [citation needed] In 2014 it was announced that the number of women is going to be increased up to 80,000 over the whole Russian Armed Forces, but that goal was missed by 2020, when it was at 41,000. [96]
Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most worked in industry, transport, agriculture and other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production, a sizable number of women served in the army.
the first space rover, Lunokhod 1 (eight-wheeled vehicle bottom-right) the first space station, Salyut 1 (left) the first modular space station, Mir (upper left) This timeline of Russian innovation encompasses key events in the history of technology in Russia . The entries in this timeline fall into the following categories: indigenous ...
1582. 15 January. Livonian War: The Peace of Jam Zapolski ended Polish–Lithuanian participation in the war. Russia gave up its claims to Livonia and the city of Polatsk . 23 October. Battle of Chuvash Cape: Russian soldiers dispersed the armed forces of the Siberia Khanate from its capital, Qashliq . 1583.
Timeline of American women in war and the U.S. military from 1945 to 1999; Timeline of women in war in the United States, Pre-1945; Timeline of women in warfare in Colonial America; Timeline of women in warfare in the United States before 1900; Timeline of women in warfare in the United States from 1900 to 1949; Timeline of women lawyers
(The New Voice of Ukraine via MSN) A Russian military convoy is destroyed on the E38 highway in Oktyabrsky District. (The Guardian) Ukrainian troops capture the Gazprom gas facility in Sudzha. A video shows Ukrainian soldiers inside the natural gas facility, with much of the town reportedly under Ukrainian control. (Reuters via Al Arabiya)
A timeline of some key events: 1945-1948 — Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula ends with Tokyo’s World War II defeat in 1945 but the peninsula is eventually divided into a Soviet ...