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The fortress of Groznaya (Гро́зная; lit. fearsome – a feminine form of Grozny, as the word fortress, "крепость", is feminine in Russian) was founded in 1818 [2] as a Russian military outpost on the Sunzha River by general Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov. As the fort was being built, the workers were fired upon by the Chechens.
The Russian writer M. Lermontov also participated in the battle. Movements of the Galafeyev detachment 6–14 July 1840. On 6 July the Galafeyev detachment set out from the Groznaya fortress and began destroying the fields and villages to the south and southwest of the fortress, as the inhabitants fled.
The extensive size of the Russian system led to high costs of construction and maintenance, and work on the fortifications slowed in the 1840s, leading to some fortress never being completed. The importance of the forts as military garrisons declined over the following decades, with some being used as prisons or warehouses in addition to barracks.
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Grozny (Russian: Гро́зный; masculine), Groznaya (Гро́зная; feminine), or Groznoye (Гро́зное; neuter) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia: Urban localities Grozny , a city and the capital of the Chechen Republic
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The “mega fortress” called Dmanisis Gora was built sometime between 1500BC and 500BC in the Caucasus region, on the boundary between Europe, the Eurasian Steppe, and the Middle East.
The Attack of the Dead Men, or the Battle of Osowiec Fortress, was a battle of World War I that took place at Osowiec Fortress (now northeastern Poland), on August 6, 1915. The incident received its grim name from the bloodied, corpse-like appearance of the Russian combatants after they were bombarded with a mixture of poison gases , chlorine ...