On November 27, 2005, 300 years of the Marine Corps of Russia turned 300. This kind of troops, founded by Peter the Great, in three centuries participated in all the wars that was waged by the Russian Empire and the USSR. On boarding, landing and fields of battles, marine infantrymen came across Turks and Swedes, French and Poles, British and Germans, Chinese and Japanese. They raised their flags and banners over Berlin and Vienna, over Paris and Rome, over Budapest and Warsaw, over Beijing and Beirut. The Marine Corps combat map extends from Norway fjords to African jungle.
In accordance with the plan of the main activities of the preparation and conduct of the three hundredth anniversary of the Marine Corps, approved by the Commander -in -Chief of the Navy, on the basis of archival documents and rare printed sources, the team of authors compiled a historical description of the development and combat service of the Marine Corps. In the first volume of the anniversary publication, events from the origin of the Marine Corps under Peter I and the Azov campaign to the era of Nicholas I and Ge … are chronologically traced
Author
Kibovsky Alexander Vladimirovich, Leonov Oleg Gennadievich
Editor
Tsyplenkov Kirill Vladimirovich
Translator
Zhogin Evgeny
Publisher
Foundation “Russian Knights”, 2008
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