We welcome the Russian women's team that won 1️⃣0️⃣ medals at the EUBC European Boxing Championship!

🥇 Yulia Chumgalakova
🥇 Darima Sandakova
🥇 Elena Gapeshina
🥈 Anastasia Kool
🥈 Daria Abramova
🥈 Nune Asatryan
🥈 Elena Babicheva
🥈 Albina Moldazhanova
🥈 Anastasia Shamonova
🥈 Kristina Tkacheva

Girls, thank you for your work and dedication!
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Встречаем женскую сборную, завоевавшую 1️⃣0️⃣ медалей на чемпионате Европы!

🥇 Юлия Чумгалакова
🥇 Дарима Сандакова
🥇 Елена Гапешина
🥈 Анастасия Кооль
🥈 Дарья Абрамова
🥈 Нуне Асатрян
🥈 Елена Бабичева
🥈 Альбина Молдажанова
🥈 Анастасия Шамонова
🥈 Кристина Ткачёва

Девочки, спасибо вам за труд и отдачу! 🫂

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📅 On April 30, 1945, Soviet soldiers Rakhimzhan Koshkarbayev & Grigory Bulatov raised the first Red Banner on the facade of the Reichstag.

The distance between the former Himmler's house and the Reichstag was less than 500 metres. Bulatov & Koshkarbayev struggled for 7 hours, crossing this distance under heavy fire, with a makeshift flag - a flagpole with a simple scarlet cloth.

According to the 150th Division's combat log, at 14:25 Bulatov & Koshkarbayev "crawled to the central part of the building and placed a red flag on the steps of the main entrance". It was the first of the banners the liberators raised over the Reichstag.

🎖 Rakhimzhan Koshkarbayev & Grigory Bulatov were awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the courage and heroism during the assualt on the Reichstag. Monuments to Koshkarbayev have been erected in his home region of Akmola in Kazakhstan and in the republic's capital, Astana, and to Bulatov in Kirov.

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📅 In the early hours of May 1, 1945, the #VictoryBanner was raised atop of the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin. It became a symbol of the triumph of the Soviet Union & its peoples in the fight against Nazism.

Before the assault, a decision was made for a group of Soviet fighters to hoist the flag over the Reichstag, which would embody the final collapse of Nazism.

🚩 A total of 9 makeshift banners were promptly made, designed after the state flag of the USSR. Ultimately, a battle flag of the 150th Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Idritsa Rifle Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belarusian Front, became the Victory Banner.

The order of events:

• A Red Army unit broke into the Reichstag through breaches in the walls, with a fierce close combat unleashing. The Nazis took advantage of effectively advancing inside the building they new well, throwing grenades at Soviet soldiers & firing back with machine-guns: they basically had nothing to lose.

• Lieutenant R.Koshkarbayev & private G.Bulatov placed a makeshift red flag to the column on the steps of the Reichstag main entrance.

• Staff sergeants G.Zagitov, A.Lisimenko & A.Bobrov as well as Sergeant M.Minin supported by Captain S.Neustroyev’s battalion were the 1st to hoist a red banner on the roof of the Reichstag atop of the Goddess of Victory sculpture.

• The 3rd red banner was raised on the western facade of the roof by the scouts of the 674th Regiment led by Lieutenant S.Sorokin.

• Finally, the Red Banner №5 was raised over the dome of the captured Reichstag by the 756th Rifle Regiment’s scouts, Sergeant M.Yegorov & Junior Sergeant M.Kantariya, led by deputy battalion commander Lieutenant A.Berest, covered by riflemen from I.Sayanov’s squad. That flag ultimately became the Victory Banner.

📃 By a Presidential Executive Order of April 15, 1996, the Red Banner hoisted atop of the Reichstag by Yegorov & Kantariya was declared the symbol of the Soviet people’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

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8️⃣0️⃣ years ago, on May 1, 1944, an executive order of the USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet established the Medal For the Defence of Moscow.

The Battle of Moscow was one of the largest of the Great Patriotic War. The fighting near the capital went on from September 30, 1941 to April 20, 1942.

☝️ Cadets of military schools as well as ordinary Muscovites joined the Red Army soldiers, rallying to defend the city. No capital in the world had ever given Hitler such a strong rebuff.

⚡️ The Battle of Moscow dispelled the myth about the Third Reich’s war machine being invincible, & thwarted the Nazi Germany’s ‘lightning war’ plan to defeat the USSR.

The Medal For the Defence of Moscow immortalised the heroic deeds of all those who fought for the liberation of Moscow, conferred on them in acknowledgement of their unparalleled heroism during some of the most difficult days the Motherland faced. It was awarded to more than a million fearless defenders of Moscow (~1,028,600), including women & children. The award was also conferred on ordinary residents who defended the city. The medal was given to the military responsible for Moscow’s air defence & civilians who helped defend the city from enemy air raids. Military & civilian personnel who built defensive lines around the capital were also noted.

🖼 The future medal was based on a drawing by Nikolai Moskalyov, whose sketches were also used as the basis of many other Soviet awards.

The medal’s exterior side depicts the Kremlin wall with a T-34 tank under it in the foreground, the monument to Minin & Pozharsky on the left, & a Kremlin tower on the right. The dome of the Government building rises above the wall with a hammer & sickle flag fluttering above. Along the upper circumference of the medal — the name of the medal. The lower half displays a laurel wreath, which is divided by a five-pointed star. The innoscription on the reverse side reads: “For our Soviet Motherland,” with a hammer & sickle above it.
 
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