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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov [1] (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was a Russian physicist and researcher on lasers and masers in the former Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov.
The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on 12 July 1943 [a] near Prokhorovka, 87 kilometres (54 mi) southeast of Kursk, in the Soviet Union, during the Second World War. Taking place on the Eastern Front, the engagement was part of the wider Battle of Kursk and occurred when the 5th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army attacked the II SS-Panzer ...
A memorial on the Prokhorovka battlefield Prokhorovka's monument to the dead Soviet soldiers. Prokhorovka (Russian: Про́хоровка, IPA: [ˈproxərəfkə]) is an urban locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Prokhorovsky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, along the Psyol River southeast of the city of Kursk.
September 23, 2024 at 7:25 PM. By Kanishka Singh and Costas Pitas. (Reuters) -Decisive actions by the United States now could hasten the end of the Russian war against Ukraine next year, President ...
Russia-Ukraine trade largest drone blitz since star of war. 04:03, Shweta Sharma. Russian capital Moscow came under attack with the largest Ukrainian drone strikes as Vladimir Putin’s forces ...
On 6 April a video apparently showing Ukrainian troops of the Georgian Legion executing captured Russian soldiers was posted on Telegram. [82] The video was verified by The New York Times and by Reuters. [83] [6] A wounded Russian soldier was seemingly shot twice by a Ukrainian soldier while lying on the ground. Three dead Russian soldiers ...
Result. Escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Russian forces openly cross the Ukrainian border into territory occupied by Russian-controlled separatists on 21 February 2022. [28] Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Parties involved in the crisis.
Unit. 15th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment. Battles/wars. World War II. Awards. Hero of the Soviet Union (twice) Aleksey Nikolayevich Prokhorov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Про́хоров; 19 January 1922 – 27 May 2002) was an Il-2 pilot in the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War who was twice awarded the ...