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Main Headquarters
Main Headquarters
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Army. Navy/Military Administration
MAIN HEADQUARTERS, supreme military administrative body in pre-revolutionary Russia. Established in 1815 as the Main Headquarters of His Imperial Majesty, administered the activities of the army, except for economic (the latter being under the jurisdiction of the Military Ministry, subordinate to the Main Headquarters). In 1832 dismissed. In 1865 re-established as a structural sub-unit of the Military Ministry, was in charge of army recruitment, cadre issues, disposition and organisation of the army, drafting of war-plans, topographic service, reconnaissance and administration of military prisons. In 1905 the Main Headquarters was incorporated into the reorganised General Staff as a department (in charge of cadre issues, regulation of Turkistan and Cossack companies). In 1918 it was liquidated. Headquartered in the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in a specially constructed building (see Headquarters of the Chief Staff). Reference: Глиноецкий Н. П. История Русского генерального штаба: В 2 т. СПб., 1883-1894. G. V. Kalashnikov.
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Глиноецкий Н. П. История русского генерального штаба: В 2 т. СПб., 1883-1894
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Hermitage
HERMITAGE, State Museum (32-38 Dvortsovaya Embankment) is one of the biggest museums in the world, exhibiting art as well as cultural and historical objects. It consists of 5 inter-connected buildings: the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage
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Kulbin N.I. (1868-1917), Artist
KULBIN Nikolay Ivanovich (1868, St. Petersburg - 1917, Petrograd) painter, graphic artist, art theorist; actual privy counsellor (1915), lecturer at the Army Medical College (from 1907), a doctor of the General Staff (from 1903)
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Palace Square
PALACE SQUARE, St. Petersburg's main square, the traditional location for city-wide festivities, and is part of the central square system of the Neva River's left bank
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Pavements
PAVEMENTS have been built in St. Petersburg since the early 18th century. The first pavements were made of boards, later various paving materials were applied, including planks, cobblestones, asphalt, woodblocks, granite, metal, road metal (pebbles)
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Proletarsky Zavod, Manufacturing Association
PROLETARSKY ZAVOD (3 Dudko Street), an open joint-stock company, the largest manufacturer of ship, energy, and general machinery in the north-west region of Russia
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Uritsky M.S. (1873-1918), revolutionary, statesman
URITSKY Moisey Solomonovich (1873-1918, Petrograd), statesman. He graduated from the faculty of law of Kiev University (1897). After the split of Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (1903) he joined Mensheviks
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