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The administrative capital was tentatively proposed as Moscow, the historical and political center of the Russian state. As the German armies were approaching the Soviet capital in the Operation Typhoon in the autumn of 1941, Hitler determined that Moscow, like Leningrad and Kiev, would be levelled and its 4 million inhabitants killed, to destroy it as a potential center of Bolshevist resistance.
Reichskommissariat Ukraine, one of the reichskommissariats that was set up by Germany during World War II.. Reichskommissariat (English: Realm Commissariat) is a German word for a type of administrative entity headed by a government official known as a Reichskommissar (English: Realm Commissioner).
Moscow [a] is the capital and largest city of Russia.The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, [6] over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, [7] and over 21.5 million residents in its metropolitan area. [14]
Moscovia or Muscovy (Russian: Моско́вия, romanized: Moskoviya) is a historical region in Central Russia.The name derived from Moscow and the Moskva river. It was known to its neighbors through the Moscovian state that emerged in the 13th century.
Moskowien (Moscow metropolitan area and the rest of nearest Russian European areas); Turkestan (the Central Asian Soviet republics, ethnically mainly Turkic ). This suggested an intention to destroy Russia as a political entity, as the Nazis organised the areas adjacent to Greater Germany 's eastern provinces in accordance with the geopolitical ...
Three more administrative divisions were envisaged: a Reichskommissariat Moskowien that would include the majority of European Russia, a Reichskommissariat Kaukasien in the Caucasus, and a Reichskommissariat Turkestan in Soviet Central Asia.
Moscow metropolitan area from space. The Moscow metropolitan area includes the city of Moscow, population 12,197,596, [3] a ring of cities annexed to it and administered within (Balashikha, Korolyov, Krasnogorsk, Khimki, Mytishchi and Zelenograd), as well as large nearby towns with population of over 100,000 citizens (Reutov, Zheleznodorozhny, Podolsk and Lubertsy, to name a few) that fall ...
The Moscow Armistice [2] was signed between Finland on one side and the Soviet Union and United Kingdom on the other side on 19 September 1944, ending the Continuation War.The Armistice restored the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940, with a number of modifications.