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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.
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 ...
The Government of Moscow (Russian: Правительство Москвы, pronounced [prɐˈvʲitʲɪlʲstvə mɐskˈvɨ]) is the highest executive body of state authority of Moscow.
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The city's name is thought to be derived from the Moskva River. [24] [25] Theories of the origin of the name of the river have been proposed.The most linguistically well-grounded and widely accepted is from the Proto-Balto-Slavic root *mŭzg-/muzg- from the Proto-Indo-European * meu - "wet", [25] [26] [27] so the name Moskva might signify a river at a wetland or marsh. [24]
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