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Red Star (G.I. Joe)
Red Star (russian: Красная Звезда, Krasnaya Zvezda; uk, Червона Зірка, Chervona Zirka) is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and animated series. He is the leader of the Oktober Guard, the Soviet Union, Soviet equivalent of the G.I. Joe Team, and successor to Col. Brekhov, the previous leader who died in action. Biography Red Star is the code name of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, RussRussia, ian Naval Infantry Captain Anatoly Fyodorovich Krimov. He was born in Odesa, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine when the country was still part of the Soviet Union. He was exceptionally bright and became the youngest chess master in Odesa at age seven. He even became a published Pushkin scholar and coach of the pistol team at the Dynamo Sports Club in Moscow. Toys Red Star was first released as an action figure in 1991. He was re-released in 2008 in a two-pack with another character, Duke (G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021 Odesa's population was approximately In classical antiquity a large Greek settlement existed at its location. The first chronicle mention of the Slavic settlement-port of Kotsiubijiv, which was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, dates back to 1415, when a ship was sent from here to Constantinople by sea. After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, the port and its surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529, under the name Hacibey, and remained there until the empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792. In 1794, the modern city of Odesa was founded by a decree of the Russian empress Catherine the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
