Bolshaya Okhta Municipal Okrug
Bolshaya (Russian language for "big") may refer to: * Bolshaya, Arkhangelsk, a village * Bolshaya chistka, "Great Purge", the 1936–1938 Soviet purge * Bolshaya Izhora, an urban locality in the Lomonosovsky District of Leningrad Oblast * Bolshaya Muksalma, one of the Solovetsky Islands * Bolshaya Polyana, the name of several locations in Russia * Bolshaya Pyora River (Amur Oblast), a river in the Amur Oblast * Bolshaya (river) The Bolshaya (russian: Большая,

Bolshaya, Arkhangelsk
Bolshaya (russian: Большая) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a Village#Russia, village) and the administrative center of Permogorskoye Rural Settlement, Krasnoborsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The population was 416 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography Bolshaya is located 20 km northwest of Krasnoborsk,_Arkhangelsk_Oblast, Krasnoborsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pridvornye Mesta is the nearest rural locality. References

Rural localities in Krasnoborsky District {{ArkhangelskOblast-geo-stub ...
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Bolshaya Chistka
The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to solidify his power over the party and the state; the purges were also designed to remove the remaining influence of Leon Trotsky as well as other prominent political rivals within the party. It occurred from August 1936 to March 1938. Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 a power vacuum opened in the Communist Party. Various established figures in Lenin's government attempted to succeed him. Joseph Stalin, the party's General Secretary, outmaneuvered political opponents and ultimately gained control of the Communist Party by 1928. Initially, Stalin's leadership was widely accepted; his main political adversary Trotsky was forced into exile in 1929, and the doctrine of "socialism in one country" becam ...
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