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69-833: Small naval vessels were built in Bryansk on the Desna River (a tributary of the Dnieper) from 1724. At the start of the Russo-Turkish war in 1735, the Dnieper Army of Field Marshal B. K. Minich requested naval assistance in capturing the Turkish fortress of Ochakiv on the Black Sea. At the instigation of Vice-Chancellor Count Osterman , the Governing Senate issued a decree on January 4, 1737 for

138-416: A Slavic word for "ditch", "lowland", or "dense woodland"; the area was known for its dense woods, of which very little remains today. Local authorities and archaeologists, however, believe that the town had existed as early as 985 as a fortified settlement on the right bank of the Desna River . Bryansk remained poorly attested until the 1237–1242 Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' . It was the northernmost of

207-543: A campaign against anti-Soviet forces under the turncoat rebel Daniil Ilich Terpilo (known as Ataman Zelyony ( Зелёный , literally "Green")). The flotilla ultimately engaged in six campaigns against Zelyony. On April 11, 1919, the rebels stormed Soviet-occupied Kiev. 400 of Zelyony's men attacked the Kiev docks from the steamer Baron Ginzburg . Later the rebels seized the Dnieper , Salubrious , Gogol , Charlotte , and Zeus from

276-457: A certain number of towers and a different amount of weapons. The fortress was described at the beginning of the 18th century: "an ancient fortress in the city of Bryansk occupied the top of a small mountain, but with rather steep slopes and, in terms of its position relative to the city located on the right bank of the Desna, constituted a citadel. Its fortified fence was in an irregular quadrangle, at

345-484: A crew of 10 and had a single gasoline engine generating 720 boiler horsepower for a speed of 37 kilometres per hour (23 mph). Besides the 3-inch main armament, the boats carried a 12.7mm machine gun and two 7.6mm machine guns. A much larger, slower, and less numerous but somewhat more powerful craft was the Zheleznyakov class river monitor . Five of these were built at Kiev between 1934 and 1939 and all served in

414-554: A dozen buildings built in the second half of the 18th century have survived to this day. The unique architectural silhouette of the city, which was formed by the beginning of the 19th century, was skilfully expanded and enlarged by the end of the century. In the center, on the territory of the Spaso-Polikarpov Monastery, the Novopokrovsky Cathedral was erected (1862–1897), which emphasized the planning center of

483-750: A draftsman of the Bryansk Arsenal. In the center of the picture is Pokrovskaya Hill with the stone church of the same name and a bell tower, at the bottom right of the Arsenal building, then the Resurrection, Nikolskaya and Trinity churches, the ensemble of the Peter-Pavlovsky Monastery, and in the foreground - the Ascension Church of the Zaretskaya Sloboda. It is not definitively known when

552-726: A legendary incident, a dubel boat of the Dnieper Flotilla commanded by Captain Second Class Christian Ivanovich Osten-Sacken, scouting for the Black Sea Fleet, was surrounded and outnumbered by Turkish vessels. As the Turks attempted to board, Osten-Sacken blew up his boat, destroying it and four Turkish vessels. The explosion warned the Russians at Ochakiv that the Turkish fleet was approaching. A main component of

621-635: A regional market town into an important industrial center for metallurgy and textiles . The city's population exceeded 30,000 by 1917. In 1812 Napoleon 's Grande Armée fought the Russians in Bryansk and in Oryol during the French invasion of Russia . In 1918 the Belarusian People's Republic and Ukrainian People’s Republic both claimed Bryansk, but Bolshevik forces took the town in 1919. During World War II

690-584: A road from the Black Bridge along the Karachizh ravine with the intersection of Stanke Dimitrova Avenue to Sakharova Street, reconstruction of Sakharova Street to the bypass road and the R120 highway, as well as development of the area of the old airport (area of Gorbatova, Stepnaya streets). A large fire was noted at an oil depot on April 25, 2022. Speculation was that it might have been a result of military action during

759-429: A system of blind and drive-through towers connected by walls, supplemented by embankments and a wooden "standing prison in one log". The fortress had towers: Spasskaya, Arkhangelskaya, Bezymyannaya, Bushuevskaya, the first and second Voskresensky, Nikolskaya, Pyatnitskaya, Rukavnaya, Sudkovskaya, Prechistenskaya, Rozhdestvenskaya, Georgievskaya, Karachevskaya and Tainichnaya. The fortress of the "old" and "new" cities had

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828-399: A tank gun in a tank turret as their main armament – early units using T-28 and T-35 turrets, later units using T-34 turrets when these became available in 1939, all fitted with a 76.2 millimetres (3.00 in) gun. Model BK-1124 had two turrets and BK-1125 one turret. 22.6 metres (74 ft) long and 3.5 metres (11 ft) wide, they displaced 26.3 tonnes (29.0 short tons). They carried

897-463: Is 16 rubles, and buses, 20 rubles (as of May 2018 ). In Bryansk, 69 municipal schools are operating in the 2022/2023 academic year. There are also 5 universities in the city: FC Dynamo Bryansk is football club which competes in Russian Second League . Bryansk is twinned with: Central Naval Museum Central Naval Museum ( Russian : Центральный военно-морской музей )

966-483: Is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast , Russia, situated on the Desna River , 379 kilometers (235 mi) southwest of Moscow . It has a population of 379,152 at the 2021 census. The first written mention of Bryansk, as Debryansk , dates to 1146 in the Kievan Chronicle . The name appears variously as Дъбряньск, Дьбряньск , and in other spellings. Etymologically, it derives from "дъбръ",

1035-773: Is a naval museum in St Petersburg , Russia, reflecting the development of Russian naval traditions and the history of the Russian Navy . The museum’s permanent display includes such relics as the Botik of Peter the Great , Catherine II ’s marine throne, trophies captured in sea battles, and the personal belongings of prominent Russian and Soviet naval commanders. The collection includes paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky , Alexey Bogolyubov , Lev Lagorio and other marine artists , ship sculpture, navigational instruments, naval equipment and machinery from

1104-622: Is a railway connection between Bryansk and Moscow. The city has railway stations: Bryansk Orlovsky and Bryansk-Lgovskiy (Bryansk Bryansk -I and -II, respectively), Ordzhonikidzegrad; Street Bus Station and Peresvet Bezhitsa bus station. fourteen kilometres (9 miles) west of the city lies the Bryansk International Airport . Passenger traffic carried by bus (more than 1,400 cars on 54 permanent urban routes), trolley on 10 regular routes, uses (36 routes), as well as commuter trains and railcars. The cost of public transport (trolley buses)

1173-534: Is the main highway connecting the upland part with the coastal one. It connects three squares: Cathedral, Red and Sennaya (former Shchepnaya). Two other highways run in the longitudinal direction: Bolshaya Moskovskaya (now Kalinin Street) in the coastal part and Petropavlovskaya-Voskresenskaya Street (now Lenin Avenue), which unites the city in the upland part. Petropavlovskaya and Voskresenskaya streets, continuing it, crossing

1242-409: The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . December 7, 2023 - shooting happened in gymnasium No. 5.As a result of the same shooting,two people died(including the attacker)and five were injured.Also,this shooting caused a high public result(although usually such cases mainly cause public outcry!),. The location of the settlement was originally associated with navigable river-routes and was located in

1311-760: The Great Northern Expedition (1733–1743). The Dnieper Flotilla of the Ukrainian Front was formed in Kiev on March 12, 1919 by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Ukrainian Front (a Soviet Army Group formed during the Russian Civil War for offensive operations into Ukraine ) and its commander Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko . In May 1919, the flotilla was subordinated to

1380-877: The Pripyat River , and also on the Vistula River and its tributary the Western Bug , and on the Oder River and the Spree River (which flows through the heart of Berlin). The Dnieper and its tributaries drain into the Black Sea , while the Bug, Vistula, Oder, and Spree drain into the Baltic Sea ; the Flotilla was able to cross between watersheds using then-existing canals. (Late-war operations in

1449-658: The Severian cities in the possession of the Olgovichi clan of Chernigov . After the Mongols executed Prince Mikhail of Chernigov in 1246 and his capital was destroyed, his purported son Roman Mikhailovich moved his seat to Bryansk. In 1310, when the Mongols sacked the town again, it belonged to the Principality of Smolensk . Grand Duke Algirdas of Lithuania acquired Bryansk through inheritance in 1356 and gave it to his son, Dmitry

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1518-466: The 17th to 20th centuries and numerous models of ships . The museum originates from the St. Petersburg Model Chamber, used to store models and drawings related to shipbuilding . The Model Chamber was first mentioned in records on 24 January 1709 , the date now used as the birthday of the museum. The Model Chamber's collection became the basis for a "Maritime Museum", which was created in 1805. In August 1939

1587-465: The Black Sea remained blocked by the strong Turkish squadron. In the spring of 1738 plague broke out among the troops, claiming Vice Admiral Senyavin, who was replaced as flotilla leader by recalling Rear Admiral Dmítriev-Mamónov. Under threat of the plague, the Russians – both land troops and Dnieper Flotilla – abandoned Ochakiv (as well as Kinburn Fortress on the tip of the Kinburn Peninsula at

1656-656: The Black Sea watershed were left to the Danube Flotilla). The Dnieper Flotilla's vessels contributed to the flank defense of advancing Soviet troops in Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland, and enabled the crossing of water obstacles, provided logistic support, and performed amphibious landings – the largest being the Pinsk Landing during the liberation of that city, with others including landings at Zdudichi, Petrikovsky, Borkinsky, and Doroshevichinsky. Flotilla units continued fighting to

1725-511: The Dnieper Flotilla in both the 1735–1739 and 1787–92 Turkish wars was the dubel boat ( Дубель-шлюпка , with variant names also used). The dubel boat is a type of boat, unique to Russia, and extant from the 1730s to the 1790s, when they were replaced by gunboats. Their name may come from the English "double" in the sense of "duplicate", on the grounds that the boats appeared to be smaller versions of larger ships. Chief Quartermaster R. Broun designed

1794-695: The Dnieper Flotilla is preserved as a sailor's memorial on Pacific Street. The Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reestablished the Ukrainian Dnieper flotilla in 2022. The first division of river boats was created in March and has assumed service in the north of the country. In the future, a flotilla of river boats will operate on the whole Dnieper and will consist of several divisions, which will be deployed in different cities. Bryansk Bryansk ( Russian : Брянск , IPA: [brʲansk] )

1863-495: The Dnieper Flotilla was organized into a headquarters and the following squadrons: By late March the flotilla consisted of 19 combat and support vessels. The flotilla's combat vessels were of two kinds: gunboats and armored boats. The gunboats were usually conversions of boats confiscated from Kiev shipowners, on which were installed one or two guns of 37–152 millimetres (1.5–6.0 in) calibre (fore and aft, if two guns) and up to six machine guns – Hotchkiss , Maxim , or whatever

1932-744: The Dnieper Flotilla which landed troops in the rear of the rebel army and rendered their position in Trypillia untenable. On September 26, 1919, the boats of the Pripyat River Flotilla were added to the Dnieper Flotilla. In the Battle of Chernobyl of the Polish–Soviet War , on April 25–27, 1920, the Dnieper Flotilla was defeated by the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy . The Dnieper Flotilla

2001-507: The Dnieper Flotilla. One common type was the BK armored gunboats. This type served in large numbers with the Dnieper Flotilla as well as other Soviet river flotillas. At the time of the German invasion 85 of these were in commission, 68 were under construction, and a further 110 were ordered on August 18, 1941, all of which were completed during the war, and about 90 of which were lost. These boats carried

2070-515: The Dnieper Flotilla. All were lost except the class leader, which is preserved at Kiev. These boats were 48 metres (157 ft) long and 7.6 metres (25 ft) wide with a displacement of 238.6 tonnes (263.0 short tons). They carried a crew of 70, had twin diesel engines generating 300 boiler horsepower for a speed of 14.1 kilometres per hour (8.8 mph), and were armed with a twin 4-inch (100 mm) main armament, two twin 44-millimetre (1.7 in) guns, and four machine guns. The Dnieper Flotilla

2139-572: The Dnieper Flotilla. Zelyony moved his headquarters to the Charlotte . Zelyony's insurgent army, calling itself Army of the Independent Soviet Ukraine, was thus able to block navigation of the Dnieper. But on May 1 and 2 of 1919 shelling by the Dnieper Flotilla destroyed much of the villages of Trypillia and Plyuty; on May 30 Trypillia was again shelled by the armed tugboat Taras Bulba and

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2208-524: The Elder . Until the end of the century Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania, Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania, the future Grand Duke Švitrigaila of Lithuania, and Grand Duke Yury of Smolensk contested control of the town. The Grand Duchy of Moscow conquered Bryansk following the Battle of Vedrosha in 1503. The town was turned into a fortress which played a major role during the Time of Troubles (1598–1613). During

2277-628: The First Battle of the Liman on the morning of June 7, 1788, the Turkish Fleet attacked the combined Russian fleet; Jones's big guns destroyed two Turkish vessels and the Turks retreated, but Nassau-Siegen did not pursue. He wrote to Potemkin "...unhappily, the wind was contrary, so our ships could not attack and had to retreat under the guns of the sailing squadron". Potemkin found this disingenuous, wondering why Nassau-Siegen's rowing boats could not go against

2346-568: The German Wehrmacht captured Bryansk and encircled the Soviet 3rd , 13th and 50th armies. The town remained under Axis occupation from October 6, 1941 to September 17, 1943, with the city left heavily damaged by fighting. About 60,000 Soviet partisans were active in and around Bryansk, inflicting heavy losses on the German Army. In 1944, soon after its liberation , Bryansk became

2415-422: The Liman was difficult, as neither Jones nor Nassau-Siegen had operational control, each reporting to Potemkin, who, being in charge of all armed forces of the empire, was not in a position to exercise tactical command. In addition, Jones thought poorly of Nassau-Siegen's abilities – an opinion shared by Jones's biographer, Samuel Eliot Morison – and Nassau-Siegen was jealous of Jones's more luxurious flagship. At

2484-561: The Moscow state and the organization of the Yamskaya service in 1503, the Yamskaya Sloboda appeared. Zatinnaya Sloboda is located on the site of the ancient "Zhitny Gorod" - a fortified territory of food warehouses and salt storages. Later, the settlement gave way to a cannon yard, on the site of which the Arsenal was located in the 18th century. The general plan of the city of Bryansk plan laid

2553-752: The Office of Military Communications of the Ukrainian Front. On June 1, 1919, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided to disband the Ukrainian Front, which occurred on June 15, after which the Dnieper Flotilla was attached to the Soviet 12th Army . On August 27, 1919, control of the flotilla was transferred to the Commander of Naval Forces of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic . As of March 21, 1919,

2622-814: The Soviet Union , and the Danube Flotilla was disbanded on November 21, 1941. Later in the war, with the advance of the Red Army back to the Dnieper River, a new Dnieper Flotilla was constituted from ships of the Volga Flotilla , in September 1943. By the beginning of the Spring 1944 offensive the Dnieper flotilla consisted of about 140 boats and ships, including: The commander of the Dnieper flotilla from October 1943 until

2691-420: The Soviet Union , including one awarded to Alexander Firsov . In Pinsk a memorial to the flotilla (a BK boat) was erected and a museum was created (closed in the early 1990s). A street in Pinsk was named Dnieper Flotilla Street. BK boats have also been installed as memorials in Kiev, in Mariupol in Ukraine, in Blagoveshchensk in Russia, and in Khabarovsk in the far east where Armored Gunboat Number 302 from

2760-420: The Time of Troubles the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth occupied the town in 1610, and it remained in Polish-Lithuanian hands as part of Smolensk Voivodeship until the Truce of Deulino in 1634. In 1709 Tsar Peter the Great incorporated Bryansk into the Kiev Governorate , but Empress Catherine the Great deemed it wise to transfer the town to the newly-formed Oryol Governorate in 1779. She also promulgated

2829-409: The administrative center of Bryansk Oblast . In 2016 the city council approved a new general city plan, which called among others for laying of a new route from Burov Street along the Bolva River to Vokzalnaya Street with the intersection of the railway and Bolva. In the southern direction, it is proposed to extend the road along the Desna to the Fokinsky District to Moskovsky Prospekt, construction of

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2898-406: The area of the Chashin Kurgan, where the fortress walls were erected. For reasons that have not yet been clarified, the city changed its location and by the middle of the 12th century had established itself on the steep slopes of the right bank of the Desna on Pokrovskaya Hill ( Russian : Покровская гора ). The foundations of the future urban development of the city were laid even earlier, when around

2967-402: The armed steamer Courier . During fierce fighting near Trypillia in June and July 1919 Zelyony's captured boats were beaten back. The Trypillia Incident , where Zelyony's men massacred a Komsomol special forces detachment, occurred on July 3, 1919. By the end of July, Zelyony's army was defeated (although not destroyed) and forced to retreat from Trypillia. Crucial to this was an operation by

3036-557: The boats and made the first model (still existing, at the Central Naval Museum ). The dubel boat was a shallow draft rowing and sailing galley with 18 pairs of oars and two masts rigged with lateen sails. They were designed to be able to pass the Dnieper rapids and also serve as bridge pontoons to move armies across the Dnieper or other rivers. The boats were armed with six two-pounder falcon guns mounted on swivels. They were capable of transporting 50 soldiers and two small battalion guns . Three dubel boats also accompanied Vitus Bering on

3105-472: The boats in the flotilla were Cossack boats which – according to a report made in 1738 by Rear Admiral Yakov Barch – were narrow, unstable, hard to row, suitable perhaps for Cossack journeys but very unfit for naval operations. On February 3, 1737, by order of Empress Anna , Rear Admiral Vasily Dmitriev-Mamonov took command of the flotilla. In the spring of 1737 a flotilla consisting 355 vessels with troops, supplies, siege artillery, and ammunition on board

3174-428: The building at Bryansk of a flotilla for operations on the Dnieper River. At least ten British officers served with the flotilla For the construction and manning of the flotilla, 4650 sailors, soldiers, and craftsmen were sent to Bryansk. The boats constructed were mainly dubel boats, a type of shallow draft Russian 18th century rowing/sailing galley , of which 400 were ordered. According to some sources, though, most of

3243-425: The city-fortress in the 17th century after the Time of Troubles of 1598–1613 on the coastal strip at the foot of the Bryansk fortress the posadskaya "Zatinnaya Sloboda " was upset, and on the upper plateau, between Verkhniy Sudok and White Kolodez - the "Streletskaya Sloboda". Somewhat earlier behind the posad (the territory between the fortress and the Peter-Pavlovsky monastery), after the annexation of Bryansk to

3312-424: The coastal Moskovskaya street, Krasnaya gorodskaya - in the center of the plateau and Shchepnaya market - on the western border of the city (by the entrance to the present-day Dynamo stadium). The plan captures the historical layout. The city is spread out on the right bank of the Desna. It was a picturesque group of different-sized, irregularly shaped quarters. The city center did not stand out in terms of planning, it

3381-548: The corners of which there were small ledges. They were joined by a chain retransmission, placed on one of the ledges of a raised area." Bryansk has a warm-summer humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfb ). Bryansk is the administrative center of the oblast . Within the framework of administrative divisions , it is, together with three work settlements ( Belye Berega , Bolshoye Polpino , and Raditsa-Krylovka ), incorporated separately as Bryansky Urban Administrative Okrug —an administrative unit with

3450-426: The district town with its scale. On the right flank there was a building of a trade and craft school, built by the architect N. A. Lebedev, which linked the building of the Arsenal plant and the Tikhvin church into a single chain of historical buildings. The first isographic depiction of the city is a 1857 panorama from the left bank of the Desna, painted in watercolor by self-taught artist Gabriel Vasilyevich Khludov,

3519-406: The end of the war was Rear Admiral Vissarion Grigoriev . The flotilla's chief political commissar from April 1944 until the end of the war was P. B. Boyarchenkov. Flotilla chiefs of staff were J. V. Nebolsin in October and November 1943, and K. M. Balakirev from November 1943 to the end of the war. The Dnieper Flotilla operated on the Dnieper River and its tributaries, the Berezina River and

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3588-451: The end of the war, in battles on the Oder and Spree, and PG-117 motorboats of the Dnieper Flotilla participated in the storming of Berlin , the only naval units to do so. In the summer of 1945 Armored Gunboat Number 302 was transferred to the far east, where it became part of the Amur Flotilla and fought in the 1945 war against Japan . After the end of the war the Dnieper Flotilla was disbanded. Many different types of vessels served with

3657-494: The extreme end of the Dnieper estuary). Dmítriev-Mamónov in turn succumbed to the plague and was replaced by Rear Admiral Yakov Barch. The war ended with the Treaty of Niš on October 3, 1739, and the Dnieper Flotilla – by then numbering 647 boats – was disbanded by 1741; most of the vessels were burned. The Dnieper Flotilla in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92 was commanded by Karl Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen . With 51 boats of various types – dubel boats, cossack boats, and others –

3726-402: The first Bryansk fortress appeared as a long-term fortification. The reports of the governor of 1629, and paintings from 1678, 1682, 1685, 1686 testify that the fortress on Pokrovskaya Hill was cut down, like in the old days, from oak logs and consisted of walls with towers. Inventories noted that the fortress was built on a native mountain. The city - "oak, chopped, covered with planks" - included

3795-405: The flotilla combined with a squadron of 13 seagoing warships of the Black Sea Fleet commanded by John Paul Jones for operations in the Liman (the Dnieper-Bug Estuary ), part of the Siege of Ochakiv of 1788. The Turkish fleet was roughly equal in large ships, but somewhat inferior in smaller craft to the Dnieper Flotilla. Nassau-Siegen failed in everything he undertook. The command structure in

3864-407: The flotilla's individual captains to rally to him. This battle ended with a grisly episode which saw the Dnieper Flotilla attack several grounded Turkish vessels with flaming missiles, immolating alive the Turkish rowers – slaves and prisoners who were chained to their stations. Ultimately, the Siege of Ochakiv was successful and the Russians gained a permanent powerful presence on the Black Sea. In

3933-412: The flotilla. On October 30, 40,000 Turkish troops supported by 12 galleys attacked Ochakiv; the Dnieper Flotilla played an active role in repelling the attack. Ochakiv remained besieged for two weeks, and naval combat continued in the area through October, during which time the flotilla was reinforced by another 30 small vessels. Although the Turks abandoned their attempt to retake Ochakiv, Russian access to

4002-435: The foundations for the development of the city in a regular system designed to streamline the existing buildings for centuries, limit the spontaneous growth of the city, and create a new community center. In the drawing, the territory of the upper plateau was covered with a geometrical grid of quarters formed by streets going down to the Desna and perpendicular to them. Three squares were "strung" on two of them: Sobornaya - on

4071-418: The north and north-east, the area between the White Kolodez ravine and the Podar River on south; it increased the territory of the central part in the northwest behind the market square. The quarters were enlarged, the streets classified, and squares located on a larger scale to the territory of the city. Smolenskaya Street - in common parlance Rozhdestvenskaya Gora (now Sovetskaya Street - Gagarin Boulevard) -

4140-605: The status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , Bryansky Urban Administrative Okrug is incorporated as Bryansk Urban Okrug . Today's Bryansk is an important center for steel and machinery manufacturing, and is home to many large factories. The main industries are machine building , metalworking , chemical, electrical equipment , electronics , wood, textile and food industries , locomotives , diesel engines , freight cars , motor graders , pavers and other road equipment, agricultural equipment , construction materials , and garments . Since 1868, there

4209-443: The town's coat of arms (August 1781). In the 17th and 18th centuries the economy of Bryansk, which had become a regional trading center, was based on the Svenskaya fair ( Russian : Свенская ярмарка ), the largest in European Russia . The fair took place annually under the auspices of the nearby Svensky Monastery . After the town started to manufacture cannon and ammunition for the Imperial Russian Navy in 1783, Bryansk evolved from

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4278-448: The whole city, at the intersection with Trubchevskaya (now Krasnoarmeyskaya) street ended in a new, fourth square - Khlebnaya (on the site of the modern Partizanskaya Square, there was once a mill on this place). From here there were roads to Trubchevsk and Karachev . All squares were square. At the beginning of the 19th century, out of 867 houses in the city, only 25 were of stone; out of 17 stone churches there were 10. A little more than

4347-464: The wind, especially considering that he had the current at his back. (Nevertheless, Nassau-Siegen – better at politics than fighting – was able to outmaneuver Jones politically, and eventually Jones was dismissed while Nassau-Siegen stayed.) The next major battle, on June 16 and 17, saw Nassau-Siegen distracted with claiming prizes while Jones entreated him to help repel a Turkish attack; unsuccessful with Nassau-Siegen, Jones nevertheless persuaded some of

4416-450: Was available – with some iron or steel sheet bolted on for protection if any was available. The armored boats were purpose-built patrol craft inherited from the Imperial Navy; their armament consisted of one Maxim machine gun in a rotating turret, with a crew of 7. The flotilla commander from March 12, 1919 to September 13, 1919, was A. V. Polupanov. Beginning in April 1919 the Dnieper Flotilla supported about 21,000 Soviet troops engaged in

4485-438: Was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in 1944 and, as a unit citation, the Order of Ushakov First Class in 1945. Some subunits of the flotilla were also awarded the Order of the Red Banner or were awarded Guards status or given honorary titles memorializing battles (Pinsk, Bobruisk, Luninets, Berlin). Three thousand soldiers and sailors of the flotilla were awarded orders and medals of the state, twenty of these being Hero of

4554-482: Was defined by a fortress on Pokrovskaya Hill, dominating the city. Streets descending from the upper plateau were united into one, following along the bank of the Desna. The city was almost entirely wooden, with the exception of only a few stone (mainly religious) buildings. The street network included all buildings significant at that time. The central quarters were designated for the construction of stone public, commercial and residential buildings. Red (Krasnaya) Square

4623-406: Was disbanded in December 1920. A Dnieper Flotilla was constituted in June 1931, but disbanded in June 1940, its vessels distributed to the newly formed Danube Flotilla (since, with the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina the Soviets now had a border on the Danube) and the Pinsk Flotilla. The Danube river was seized by the German and Romanian forces early in the 1941 invasion of

4692-574: Was sent down from Bryansk on the Desna to the Dnieper. Due to shallow water on the Dnieper that summer, most of the ships could not pass to the target destination (Ochakiv), and the first boats past the rapids arrived there only on July 17, when the fortress had already been taken by Russian troops. On September 3, 1737, at the insistence of Field Marshall Minich, command of the flotilla was given over to Vice-Admiral Naum Senyavin . Under Senyavin's leadership, construction work in Bryansk intensified. By October 1, 1737, there were only 18 boats remaining in

4761-423: Was to be decorated with the buildings of public offices, magistrates and commercial institutions; the market square - built up with handicraft enterprises, smithies and shops. The plan as revised in 1802 significantly increased the territory of the city and included in the regular system not only the coastal area and the area between Sudki, but also the Petrovskaya Gora area and Yamskaya Sloboda with Forest Sheds in

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