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    Oboyan (Russian: Обоя́нь) is a town and the administrative center of Oboyansky District in Kursk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Psyol...
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  • The Kursk–Oboyan Offensive Operation in December 1941 – January 1942 was a front–line offensive operation of the Soviet Troops of the right wing of the...
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    Corresponding member since 1802). Vasily Petrov was born in the town of Oboyan, Belgorod Province, Russian Empire, in the family of a priest. He studied...
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    conclusion of the Moscow counter-offensive almost simultaneously with the Oboyan–Kursk Offensive Operation (3 January 1942 – 26 January 1942), the Lyuban...
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    were located near Oboyan. Fierce protracted battles unfolded for Oboyan. The first units broke into the eastern outskirts of Oboyan on the afternoon of...
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    their way through minefields and over comparatively high ground towards Oboyan. Stiff resistance caused a change of direction from east to west of the...
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    reached us. In 1667 (according to other sources, in 1666) the Belgorod and Oboyan diocese was created. In the 1682 Moscow Sobor [ru], the issue of opening...
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    corps driving abreast towards Oboyan and then Kursk but that on 9 July, heavy Soviet resistance along the road to Oboyan forced Hoth to alter his plan...
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    border of the 3rd district of Kursk and the Big Post Road from Kursk to Oboyan. The first written record of Kursk dates back to 1032. It was mentioned...
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    decisively contain the 4th Panzer Army. The XLVIII Panzer Corps along the Oboyan axis, where the third defensive belt was mostly unoccupied, now had only...
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