Оренбург в 1960-е годы / Orenburg in the 1960s

Оренбург в 1960-е годы Orenburg in the 1960s Музыка: Александр Аверьянов - Сиреневый город Music: Alexander Averyanov - Lilac city Orenburg , on the Ural River, is on the boundary between Europe and Asia. With an expanding Russian Empire looking towards the East, a settlement was established in 1735 and a fort built. This became what is now nown as Orsk. Another site was cja]hosen, but, the ground proved to be too hard to build and so a third place was found. This third Orenburg has functioned as an important military outpost on the border with the nomadic Kazakhs. It became the centre of the Orenburg Cossacks. From 1938 to 1957, the city bore the name Chkalov after the prominent test pilot. The city’s distance from the German invasion during the Great Patriotic War led many Soviet enterprises to flee there, helping to spur the city’s economic growth.......