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Ivan Zaporozhets
Ivan Vasilevich Zaporozhets (Russian language, Russian: Иван Васильевич Запорожец; 6 January 1895 – 14 August 1937) was a Ukrainian Soviet Union, Soviet security officer and official of the Joint State Political Directorate, OGPU-NKVD who was suspected of being involved in the assassination of Sergei Kirov in Leningrad in December 1934. Career Zaporozhets was born in Berdyansk, in Ukraine, the son of a zemstvo agronomist. He was a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionary Party, Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) from his student years. He was drafted in to Imperial Russian Army in 1915 and was captured and held as a prisoner of war by the Austria-Hungary. Released after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, he returned to Kherson, rejoined the Left SRs, and in spring 1919, he took part Ataman Nykyfor Hryhoriv's revolt against Bolshevik rule in Ukraine. But he also fought as a partisan against the White Army of Anton Denikin, General Denikin. In May 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Запорожец
ZAZ Zaporozhets ( uk, Запоро́жець) was a series of rear wheel drive, rear-wheel-drive superminis (city cars in their first generation) designed and built from 1958 at the ZAZ factory in Soviet Ukraine. Different models of the Zaporozhets, all of which had an air-cooled Rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, engine in the rear, were produced until 1994. Since the late 1980s, the final series, 968M, was replaced by the cardinally different ZAZ Tavria, ZAZ-1102 Tavria hatchback, which featured a front-wheel drive and a more powerful water-cooled engine. The name ''Zaporozhets'' translates into a Cossack of the Zaporizhian Sich or а man from Zaporizhzhia or the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporozhets is still well known in many former USSR, Soviet states. Like the Volkswagen Beetle or East Germany's Trabant, the Zaporozhets was destined to become a "people's car" of the Soviet Union, and as such it was the most affordable vehicle of its era. At the same time, it was rather stur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
