Chekalin (Russian: Чека́лин), formerly known as Likhvin (Лихвин) is a small town in Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Oka River. Population: 1,151 (2002Census). Tula Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Oka (Russian: ÐкаÌ) is a great river in Russia, the biggest right confluent of the Volga. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Russian Census of 2002 (Russian: ) was the first census of Russian Federation carried out on October 9, 2002. ...
In 1944, Likhvin was renamed Chekalin in honor of a Soviet partisan Alexander Chekalin. 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Belorussian guerrillas liquidated, injured and took prisoner some 1. ...
Chekalin was always independent from the official soviet art and in return he was ignored by official cultural structures of Soviet Union, embodied in monopoly apparatus of USSR composer’s union, and his every step was followed by KGB.
Chekalin is a sonic sorcerer who summons forth the spirits of his Russian heritage and impregnates them with cosmic emotion.
Chekalin’s Probability Symphony in the Style of Jazz, recorded with jazz trio in 1994, was released by Leo Records, UK (Golden Years of the New Jazz series) "…much gripping improv and post-modern chamber music." (Barry Witherden, Jazz Review, 2002, UK).
Alexander Chekalin stayed to report the details to the president, and I understood that the journalists were invited to hear the official version of the events.
The main argument of Chekalin that allegedly proves the terrorists unpreparedness, was the fact that they attacked in the late morning, when all the good terrorists attack only in the night time.
Chekalin did not explain to us when and how these groups entered the city and got to their objects.