Kozelsk's Coat of Arms

Kozelsk (Козельск in Russian, also spelt Kozielsk in English) is a town in the Kaluga Oblast in Russia, located on the Zhizdra River (Oka's tributary) 72 km southwest of Kaluga. As of 2002 the town had 19,907 inhabitants. A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ... Oka may refer to: (cars) Oka is the name of a car produced by Lada (named after the river). ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management KM programming language Comoros (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) the Michaelis-Menten constant Km, see Michaelis-Menten kinetics Kamenz (district), Germany (license plate indication) Messenia, Greece (license plate indication... Kaluga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History

Koselsk siege in 1239 by Batu Khan

The town of Kozelsk was first mentioned in a chronicle under the year of 1146 as a part of Principality of Chernigov. Kozelsk became famous in the spring of 1238, when its 7-year-old prince had to defend the town against the army of Batu Khan. The latter dubbed it an "evil town" due to the fact that its citizens had been fighting the attackers for seven weeks in a row, killing around 4,000 enemy soldiers during the siege. The cititenzs of Kozelsk were greatly outnumbered and almost all of them died in battle. Events Births June 17 Edward I of England known as Edward Longshanks or Hammer of the Scots Deaths Emperor Go-Toba of Japan Monarchs/Presidents Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276) Castile - Ferdinand III, the Saint King of Castile and Leon... Batu Khan (c. ... Generally a chronicle (Latin chronica) is historical account of facts and events in chronological order. ... Events Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay, Burgundy First written mention of Bryansk. ... Events In the Iberian peninsula, James I of Aragon captures the city of Valencia September 28 from the Moors; the Moors retreat to Granada. ... Batu Khan (c. ... For the Boston area punk band see Siege (band). ...

In 1446, Kozelsk was temporarily under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1494, the town was finally annexed by the Muscovy. In 1607, one of Ivan Bolotnikov's units was located in Kozelsk and showed resistance to the tsarist army. Events Mehmed II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is forced to abdicate in favor of his father Murad II by the Janissaries. ... The presumable banner of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the coat of arms, called Пагоня in Belarusian, Vytis in Lithuanian and PogoÅ„ in Polish Another version of the Lithuanian banner The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Didžioji KunigaikÅ¡tystÄ—, Belarusian: Вялі́кае Кня́ства Літо́ўскае (ВКЛ), Ukrainian: Велике Князівство Литовське (ВКЛ), Polish: Wielkie KsiÄ™stwo Litewskie) was an... Events January 25 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. ... Muscovy (Moscow principality (княжество Московское) to Grand Duchy of Moscow (Великое Княжество Московское) to Russian Tsardom (Царство Русское) is a traditional Western name for the Russian state that existed from the 14th century to the late 17th century. ... Events January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. ... Bolotnikovs Battle with the Tzarist army at Nizhny Kotly Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov (Иван Исаевич Болотников) (?—1608) was the leader of the uprising of 1606-1607 (Bolonikov rebellion, Восстание Ивана Болотникова), which was part of the Time of Troubles in Russia. ... Tsar (Bulgarian цар, Russian царь,   listen?; often spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English), was the title used for the autocratic rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empires since 913, in Serbia in the middle of the 14th century, and in Russia from 1547 to 1917 (although...

Soviet authority in Kozelsk was established on December 8(21), 1917. After the outbreak of World War II a POW camp was established in the town for Polish officers taken captive by the Red Army during the Polish Defensive War of 1939. Between April and May of 1940, the NKVD transferred approximately 4,500 of them to a forest near Katyn, where they were executed in what became known as the Katyn massacre. The remaining 200 officers were sent to a camp in Pavlishchev Bor and then to Griazovets. The town was occupied by the German army from October of 1941 until December 27, 1941 and totally destroyed. Kozelsk was rebuilt after the war. Soviet redirects here. ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ... Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... Polish September Campaign Conflict World War II Date 1 September - 6 October 1939 Place Poland Result Decisive German and Soviet victory The Polish September Campaign — also known as Polish-German War of 1939, in Poland often as Wojna obronna 1939 roku (Defensive War of 1939), in Germany as Polish Campaign... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Black Ravens by Boris Vladimirski, a depiction of the cars used by NKVD agents. ... Katyn is the name of both a village and a forest near Smolensk, Russia. ... The Katyń Forest Massacre, also known as the Katyn massacre, was the mass execution of Polish citizens by the Soviet Union during World War II. Initially, the expression referred to the massacre of the Polish officers from the Kozielsk POW camp in Katyn forest near the village of Gnezdovo, a... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...