* March 5 – Katyn massacre: Members of the Soviet Politburo ( Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Mikhail Kalinin, Kliment Voroshilov and Lavrenty Beria ) sign an order, prepared by Beria, for the execution of 25, 700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14, 700 Polish POWs.

" Although Lazar only saw the aircraft for a moment through the front of the bus, he described it as being " very large " and having " two huge, square exhausts with vanes in them.

The legend is that Lazar Kaganovich, Stalin's associate and director of the Moscow reconstruction plan, prepared a special model of Red Square, in which the cathedral could be removed, and brought it to Stalin to show how the cathedral was an obstacle for parades and traffic.

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In the first half of the 1930s, the church became an obstacle for Joseph Stalin's urbanist plans, executed through Moscow party boss Lazar Kaganovich, " the moving spirit behind the reconstruction of the capital ".

Prince Lazar, ruler of Moravian Serbia, aware of the Ottoman threat began diplomatic and military preparations for a campaign against the Ottomans.

This marriage sealed the alliance between two houses and secured Lazar's assistance for Vuk's future plans, although Vuk in return had to acknowledge Lazar as his feuadal senior.

Unlike Lazar, who died in the battle along with most of his army, Vuk managed to survive and preserve his army, which later gave material for a popular Serbian folk tradition ( represented in folk epic poems and tales ) that he betrayed Lazar in order to become supreme ruler of Serbia, a theory that is rejected by modern day Serbian historians, but not by the Serb people.

Sapunova was treated in a hospital in Russia, where she was visited by Rabbi Berel Lazar, one of Russia's two chief rabbis, and the man for whom a Russian security source has claimed was the intended victim.

Working with Warner, Curtis's new agent Irving " Swifty " Lazar negotiated $ 125, 000 for Curtis, more than Edwards and Lemmon who were to receive $ 100, 000 each.

The most important churches and monasteries for Čačak are church Ascension of Jesus, Saint Tsar Lazar church on Ljubić hill and Monastery Vujan.

Lazar had a full support from the Serbian Church for this programme, but powerful Serbian nobles did not recognize him as their supreme ruler.

Lazar, preparing for the confrontation with Nikola, promised King Louis to be his loyal vassal if the king was on his side.

The Church was obliged to Lazar for his role in ending the schism with Constantinople.

Lazar had a full support from the Serbian Church for this political programme.

As the Ottoman threat increased and the support for Sigismund grew in Hungary, Lazar made peace with Sigismund, who was crowned Hungarian king in March of 1387.

According to the epics, Lazar opted for the Heavenly kingdom, which will last " forever and ever ", but had to perish on the battlefield.

The story of the film, its making, and the people involved are the inspiration for the novel " Sway ", by Zachary Lazar.

Robert " Bob " Lazar ( born January 26, 1959 ) is a controversial individual who claims qualifications as a scientist and engineer and is known for his alleged work with extraterrestrial technology at Area 51.

According to Lazar, S4 serves as a hidden military location for the study and research into the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial spacecraft, or flying saucers.

A 1991 Los Angeles Times article reported that Lazar was " on probation in Clark County, Nevada on a pandering charge for having installed a computer system for an illegal brothel ( while legal in some smaller counties of Nevada, prostitution is illegal in Clark County ).

Some sources, including The Saint Petersburg Gazette, have claimed that her illegitimate father was the Jewish – Russian banker Lazar Polyakov.

His first wife Annette ( Natalya ) ( 1916 – 1944 ) is from an Armenian princely family Serebryakovs, her great grandfather is admiral Lazar markovich Serebryakov ( 1792 – 1862 ).

Her mother was a professional pianist and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under the renowned pedagogue Alexander Goldenweiser ( whose other students included Grigori Ginzburg, Samuil Feinberg, Dimitri Bashkirov and Lazar Berman ), and her father was an amateur violinist and cellist.

The cross of Saint Euphrosyne was a splendid gem-studded cross created at her behest by a local master, Lazar Bohsa ().

Hayman moved to London, with her husband, Mervyn Lazar, in 1968, and was a pioneer in the field of teaching English as a second language.

In this capacity, she sided with Khrushchev in de-Stalinization during the Khrushchev's Thaw, and secured the downfall of Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, and Lazar Kaganovich when they conspired to depose her patron.

Furthermore, there has been several anachronistical accounts which have mentioned that the " Christian army " of Lazar was far greater, and that it also included contingents of other nations, although these cannot be verified.

His educational and professional background cannot be either completely verified or refuted, a situation that Lazar and his supporters attribute to government manipulation of records and other deletions of history and reality specifically done to discredit him and his claims regarding Area 51, S4 and his other claims regarding alien technology and beings that he has encountered.

As a given name, Laz may be a diminutive for Lazar, Lazarus, Lazaro, or Lazaros.

There is a purpose-built Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Lazar, known by its members as Lazarica, formally the Church of the Holy Prince Lazar and is to be found in Cob Lane.

Their replacements, Émile Mbamba and Lazar Popović, were not of the same calibre, and would be released mid-season.

The station was originally planned to be a bi-vault design similar to many London Underground stations, but Lazar Kaganovich, who was in charge of the Metro project at the time, insisted that the station be changed to a tri-vault design after of tunnel had already been bored.

Michael Lazar Biedermann, a prominent man, proposed the appointment of Chorin at the new temple to be erected at Vienna ; but the government being opposed to it, Isaac Noah Mannheimer was elected instead.

Further advances in the development of tractography can be attributed to Mori ,< ref > Pierpaoli ,< ref > Lazar, Conturo, Poupon, and many others.

Lazar apparently became the heir to their father as the only son not to be handicapped.

However, after the 22nd Party Congress in 1961, during which Khrushchev carried out his de-Stalinisation campaign, including the removal of Stalin's body from Lenin's Mausoleum, Molotov ( along with Lazar Kaganovich ) was removed from all positions and expelled from the Communist Party.

His fief ( and later state ) was known as Oblast Brankovića ( District of Branković ) or simply as Vukova zemlja ( Vuk's land ) which he held with the title of gospodin ( lord, sir ), under Prince Lazar of Serbia.

The turning point of Vuk's ascension to power in post-Nemanjić Serbia was his marriage with Mara, daughter of the most powerful Serbian nobleman prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, which brought him substantial lands in Kosovo and the city of Zvečan as dowry.

In the epic Battle of Kosovo ( 1389 ), which ended with a strategic Serbian defeat, Vuk participated along with his father-in-law Lazar and a contingent of King Tvrtko's army.

Folk tradition portraits Vuk as a traitor: supposedly, Vuk tarnished the family name when he betrayed Prince Lazar at the Battle of Kosovo, which he survived in 1389.

The earliest Serbian sources on the Battle of Kosovo, which generally favour the cult of Prince Lazar, do not mention Miloš or his assassination of the sultan.

Kuripešić elaborates on the humiliation and fall out favour which Miloš endured before the battle, his last dinner with Lazar and his nobles, his admittance to Murad's tent, the brutal murder and his own death on attempting to escape on horseback.

* An earlier episode of Miloš Obilić's career in the service of Prince Lazar is related to the Battle of Pločnik, in which he participated and survived an arrow wound.

In many sources he is mentioned as a son-in-law of Prince Lazar, which would make him a brother-in-law to Vuk Branković, another Serbian high ranking nobleman and a prominent antagonist in epic traditions concerning the Battle of Kosovo.

* Page 11 of the Special Operations Manual SOM1-01 refers to " Area 51 S4 ", which is the same nomenclature and location referenced by R. Lazar 35 years later in 1989.

The most powerful of these, Lazar, a Duke of present-day central Serbia ( which had not yet come under Ottoman rule ), stood against the Ottomans at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.

In the Battle of Kosovo fought on 15 June 1389, Lazar led the army which confronted a massive invading army of the Ottoman Empire commanded by Sultan Murad I.

Lazar was born in around 1329 in the fortress of Prilepac, 13 kilometres southeast of the town of Novo Brdo, which was an important mining centre of the medieval Serbian state.

Stavilac Lazar is mentioned as a witness in a July 1363 document by which Tsar Uroš approved an exchange of lands between Prince Vojislav and čelnik Musa.

The book Il Regno degli Slavi Realm of the Slavs by Mavro Orbin, published in Pesaro in 1601, describes events in which Lazar was a main protagonist.

It is uncertain since when Lazar had borne the title of knez, which is usually translated as " prince ".

Patriarch Jefrem abdicated in 1379 in favour of Patriarch Spiridon, which is explained by some historians as having resulted from the influence of an undercurrent in the Church associated with Lazar.

The Ottoman army was met by the forces commanded by Prince Lazar, estimated at between 12000 to 20000 men, which consisted of the prince's own troops, Vuk Branković's troops, and a contingent under the leadership of Vlatko Vuković sent by King Tvrtko.

In Serbian epic tradition, Lazar is said to have been visited by an angel of God on the night before battle, and offered a choice between an earthly or a heavenly kingdom, which choice would result in a peaceful capitulation or bloody defeat, respectively, at the Battle of Kosovo.