Kursk biography of the city

History of Kursk: From Rurik to this day, the city, standing guard of the borders of Rus'. Kursk is one of the oldest cities in the country. It is located on the banks of the Tuskari River, where it merges with a small river of chickens. The first mention of the city dates from the year when small lines appeared in the annals of the "Biode of the Feodosia of the Pechersky".

True, historians and archaeological excavations, which are periodically conducted in the city before the start of especially significant construction projects, prove that the first settlements of the Pre -Slavs appeared on the territory of the city for the centuries of our era.

In the year, the city is mentioned in the "teaching of Vladimir Monomakh", in which there are stories about both the fortress itself and about the classes of people who inhabit this fortress. Skilled blacksmiths live here, which can make products with varying degrees of metal processing, which is then sold in different cities of the Russian state. Ancient storytellers did not go around the city in their literary works.

The most famous of them is the “word about Igor’s regiment”, which states that the inhabitants of the city, like any residents of border cities, are able to not only trade, but are also able to give their lives for the benefit of their homeland and why at home. At this time, Kursk was already becoming a well -fortified fortress and the capital of the specific principality, whose princes are actively involved in various feudal strives, from which the inhabitants of the city suffer.

This fortified city was to be the outpost of Rus' on the border of the wild field, and the townspeople courageously beat off the multiple attacks of the Polovtsy, the Khazar and the Pechenegs. The first unsuccessful clash with Tatar-Mongols among the inhabitants of the city, like many Russian people, occurred on the Kalka River in the year, where due to the inconsistent actions of the specific princes, suffered a crushing defeat.

In the years, Kursk was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the year, Kursk became part of a centralized state, where he entered with all the lands, but remained, the border city of defending the southern borders of Rus'. Moscow princes decided to strengthen Kursk and restore it as a fortress. Residents of the city were engaged in agriculture, built ships for transporting bread to Rylsk and Putivl.

In the Patriotic War of the year, Kursk was not a front -line city, but the Kursk militias bravely fought near Borodin, Tarutin and Maloyaroslavets. The contribution of residents of the city to the victory over Napoleon in the supply of the Russian army with weapons, medical, food, clothing, shoes, were marked by Field Marshal Kutuzov, who personally with the troubles of awarding some citizens of Kursk for the beneficial medal on the Andreevsky tape.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Kursk remained a significant trade city. It housed 40 shops and shops, and in total there were about a thousand in the city. On the night of November 3, Kursk was handed over to the enemy. During the occupation, about 3 thousand inhabitants of the city were shot, almost ten thousand - stolen to Germany. Almost two years later, on February 8, the city was liberated by the army under the command of General I.

from July 5 to August 23 in the Kursk region, the Operation Citadel Battle on the Kursk Bulge, one of the key battles of the Great Patriotic War. The restoration of city enterprises began in February; Then the cultural life of the city was revived. The city economy was completely restored, the cinema opened. In the early 10ths of the last century, after the collapse of the USSR, the city again became borderline again.

Kursk is rich in architectural monuments of the XIX century. In the city-many museums of the Kursk State Regional Museum of Local Lore, the Literary Museum, the Kursk Battle of Kursk, the Tram Museum, Road Transport, the history of the locomotive depot, the firewall, the Zoological Museum of the Kursk State University, the Regional Museum of Archeology, the Military-Historical Museum "Young Defenders of the Motherland", and others.

In the year, for the first time in 90 years in the place of their gain, she visited the place of their gain The Kursk-Kreynoy Icon of the Mother of God "Sign" Sign of the Kuronno-Kurskaya, the most revered icon in the Russian foreign church, which was called the Odigitrium of Russian scattering. Since then, it is brought annually in the fall to Kursk. In the year, the city celebrated its summer.