* Chimera ( Aria album ), а 2001 album by Russian heavy metal band Aria

In order to gain weaponry, some of the Red Guards located along the Viipuri-Tampere railway had been alerted beforehand, on 23 – 26 January, to safeguard Russian trains carrying a heavy shipment of weapons to the Finnish Reds, as agreed between Ali Aaltonen and V. I.

During heavy fighting he was captured by the Austrians in April 1915, when his division became isolated from the rest of the Russian forces.

In the Russian Army, such vehicles were introduced for fighting in urban areas, where the risk from short range infantry anti-tank weapons such as the RPG-7 is highest, after Russian tank and motor infantry units suffered heavy losses fighting insurgents in Grozny during the First Chechen War in 1995.

The Russian army uses a 2S4 Tyulpan ( Tulipin ) self-propelled 240 mm heavy mortar.

The theme of the game is that a gnomish submarine ( with very heavy Russian influence in style ) is falling apart and the crew must repair the problems until rescue arrives.

By 1917, Bulgaria fielded more than a quarter of its 4. 5 million population in a 1, 200, 000-strong army, and inflicted heavy losses on Great Britain ( Doiran ), France ( Monastir ), the Russian Empire ( Dobrich ) and the Kingdom of Romania ( Tutrakan ).

The 1995 song Noch koroche dnya (" Night is Shorter than Day ") by the Russian heavy metal band Aria is based on Meursault's encounter with the chaplain in the final scene of the novel.

The Swedish forces fought off heavy Russian attacks against the wagon fort and the attackers received heavy losses before withdrawing for the day.

However the development of heavy forms of reactive armour such as the Soviet, later Russian, Kontakt-5 which were designed to shear long rod penetrators, has prompted the reversal of this trend in the newest U. S. rounds.

After much exchange of fire, 600 allied troops landed south of the city, but were forced to retreat by only 230 Russian troops after heavy fighting.

IMZ-Ural () is a Russian maker of heavy sidecar motorcycles.

The main products today are the heavy duty Ural sidecar motorcycles designed for rough Russian roads, and the cruiser Wolf and Solo.

For example, Chinese and Russian industrial pollution, such as phenols and heavy metals, has devastated fish stocks in the Amur River and damaged its estuary soil.

Its most common use is in the KPV heavy machine gun found on several Russian Military vehicles.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 – 78, Russian troops armed with mostly Berdan single-shot rifles engaged Turks with Winchester repeating rifles and suffered heavy casualties.

In addition, the duo hang out with Silent Bob's Russian cousin Olaf, who runs a heavy metal band and is looking to do a gig in New York City.

Due to 2010 forest and peat fires the Russian government is under heavy pressure to finance re-flooding of the previously drained bogs around Moscow.

The horse artillery of the Guard also inflicted heavy casualties on the Russian cavalry and fusiliers.

After a day of heavy fighting, the combined Prussian and Russian force retreated, but without cavalry the French were unable to follow their defeated enemy.

The hostage-takers demanded termination of the use of artillery and air forces in Chechnya starting the next day ( Russian forces ceased using heavy weapons until September 28 ), a halt to the notorious zachistka (" mopping-up ") operations, and that President of Russia Vladimir Putin should publicly declare that he was striving to stop the war in Chechnya.

The French Grande Armée under Emperor Napoleon I attacked the Imperial Russian Army of General Mikhail Kutuzov near the village of Borodino, west of the town of Mozhaysk, and eventually captured the main positions on the battlefield, but failed to destroy the Russian army despite heavy losses.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

Accounts of the Ethiopian artillery deployed at Adwa differ ; Russian advisor Leonid Artamonov wrote that it comprised 42 Russian mountain guns supported by a team of fifteen advisers, but British historians suggest that the Ethiopian guns were Hotchiss and Maxim pieces captured from the Egyptians or purchased from French and other European suppliers.

In 1709 it was besieged, taken by storm on February 2, 1710 by Russian troops with support of Prussian artillery.

Russian forces had to rely on artillery suppression, good crew gunners and infantry screens to prevent such attacks.

The Russian army organized small units of horse artillery that were distributed among their cavalry formations in the early 18th century.

* January 31 – WWI: Germany's first large-scale use of poison gas as a weapon occurs when 18, 000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas are fired on the Imperial Russian Army on the Rawka River west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov ; however, freezing temperatures prevent it being effective.

* June 21 – Battle of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands ( which later became part of Finland-in 1920 :) The Royal Navy seaman's mate Charles D. Lucas throws a live Russian artillery shell overboard by hand before it explodes, for which he was awarded the first Victoria Cross in 1857.

According to the documentary Once Upon a Time, Sergio Leone, the film opened in medias res as the camera goes from focusing on a Russian hiding from the Nazis ' artillery fire to panning hundreds of feet away to show the German Panzer divisions approaching the walls of the city.

Massive use of artillery and air strikes remained the dominating strategy throughout the Russian campaign.

The men drowned in the viciously cold ponds, dozens of Russian artillery pieces going down along with them.

The Crown Army was judged too weak to oppose the four columns of enemy armies advancing into Polish Ukraine and began a fighting withdrawal to the western side of the Southern Bug River, where it regrouped and countered the Russian advance in a pitched battle, when Prince Poniatowski was victorious in the Battle of Zieleńce ( June 18, 1792 ), while Kościuszko's division took part in only some artillery exchange at the end of the battle, the general was among the first to receive the newly created Virtuti Militari medal, Poland's highest military decoration even today.

During the massive shelling of the city that followed, most of the Russian artillery were directed toward the upper floors of the buildings ; although this caused massive destruction of infrastructure, civilian casualties were much less than in the first battles.

Russian forces present at the battle included 180 infantry battalions, 164 cavalry squadrons, 20 Cossack regiments, and 55 artillery batteries ( 637 artillery pieces ).

Of the 637 Russian artillery pieces, 300 were held in reserve and many of these were never committed to the battle.

During the confused fighting, French and Russian units moved forward into impenetrable smoke and were smashed by artillery and musketry fire that was horrendous even by Napoleonic standards.

Barclay's reinforcements, however, were sent into the fray only to be torn to pieces by French artillery, leaving Friant's Division in control of the Russian forward position at 11: 30.

Eugène's artillery continued to pound Russian support columns, while Marshals Ney and Davout set up a crossfire with artillery positioned on the Semyonovskaya heights.

" With the death of General Kutaisov, Chief of Artillery, most of the Russian cannon sat useless on the heights to the rear and were never ordered into battle, while the French artillery wreaked havoc on the Russians.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.

Fifty years after the opening of the gallery, the BJU collection included more than 400 European paintings from the 14th to through the 19th centuries ( mostly pre-19th century ), period furniture, and a notable collection of Russian icons.

As this amounted mostly to cinema houses, the first Soviet films consisted of recycled films of the Russian Empire and its imports, to the extent that these were not determined to be offensive to the new Soviet ideology.

British concern over Russian advances in Central Asia and growing influence in Persia culminated in two Anglo-Afghan wars and " The Siege of Herat " 1837 – 1838, in which the Persians, trying to retake Afghanistan and throw out the British and Russians, sent armies into the country and fought the British mostly around and in the city of Herat.

* Gallery of icons, murals and mosaics ( mostly Russian ) from 11th to 20th century

As classical Russian ethnic groups were injected into the Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the urbanization process began and was mainly authored by the Russian communities placed within the Soviet Republic, mostly by policies created by the communist party.

A secret training airfield was established at Lipetsk in 1924 and operated for approximately nine years using mostly Dutch and Russian, but also some German, training aircraft before being closed in 1933.

Eastern Christian priests mostly retain the traditional dress of two layers of differently cut cassock: the rasson ( Greek ) or podriasnik ( Russian ) beneath the outer exorasson ( Greek ) or riasa ( Russian ).

With the breakup of federal states such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and the problem of Russian and Serbian dominance in any proposed all-Slavic organisation, the idea of Pan-Slavic unity is mostly considered dead.

In the east, the rapid Russian exploration and colonisation of the huge territories of Siberia was led mostly by Cossacks hunting for valuable furs and ivory.

Railway transport in Russia is mostly under the control of the state-run Russian Railways monopoly.

Outside the territory of the Russian SFSR, the republics were constituted mostly in lands that had formerly belonged to the Russian Monarchy and had been acquired by it between the 1700 Great Northern War and the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907.

With the Russians sunk and scattering, Togo prepared for pursuit, and while doing so ordered his torpedo boat destroyers ( TBDs ) ( mostly referred to as just destroyers in most written accounts ) to finish off the Russian battleship.

Although he published mostly in Russian which was not understood by most Western European chemists, the 1870 article in which he first stated his rule was written in German.

Development continues, with around 100 ballistic missile flight tests ( not including those of the US ) in 2007, mostly by China, Iran and the Russian Federation.

The Russian army occupied Finland mostly in 1713-1714, Viborg had been captured already in 1710.

As prosperous urbanites purchase village houses for their second homes, Russian villages sometimes are transformed into dacha settlements, used mostly for seasonal residence.

A significant number of Volga Tatars emigrated during the Russian Civil War, mostly to Turkey and Harbin, China.

The Koryaks are the largest minority group with 8, 743 people among the larger mostly Russian Cossack colonizers.

Russians ( eluosizu ) are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China ( as the Russ ); there are approximately 15, 600 Russian Chinese living mostly in northern Xinjiang, and also in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang.

This was a static defensive division estimated to contain up to 50 % of non-Germanic troops, mostly Russian volunteers and German Volksdeutsche.

By the time the battle ended on 30 August, Samsonov's Second Army was destroyed, with 92, 000 Russian troops captured, another 78, 000 killed or wounded, and only 10, 000 ( mostly from the retreating flanks ) escaping.