Ilya Borisovich Moschtschanski

Ilja Borissowitsch Moschtschanski ( Russian Илья Борисович Мощанский , scientific transliteration Il'ja Borisovič Moščanskij ; born April 26, 1969 in Moscow ) is a Russian military historian , expert on the history of military equipment and land operations of the Great Patriotic War .

Life

Moshchanski graduated from the Andropov Higher Military Political School for Air Defense in Leningrad from 1990 . From 1990 to 1994 he served in the troops of strategic missile defense. This was followed by a visit to the humanistic academy of the Soviet armed forces until 1997. In 2000 he graduated under Professor RM Timoschew with his doctoral thesis "The Epistemological and Axiological Function of Military Symbolism" at the Military Academy for the first degree of candidate in philosophical science . He is a colonel in the reserve and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Military Chronicle" and the Moscow Vetsche publishing house. He teaches war history and operational leadership at the Moscow Military University.

The author of over 200 non-fiction books on military history, he is currently the leading expert on the history of ground operations and armored weapons.

Works (selection)

• Tiazhelyi tank "Tigr I": spavochnoe izdanie. (The heavy tank "Tiger I"). 2002, ISBN 5-94038-023-9 .
• Smolenskoe sraženie: dva mesjaca krovavogo protivostojanija. (1941 Battle of Smolensk. Two months of bloody confrontation). 2007, ISBN 978-5-699-23794-4 .
• Oborona Stalingrada: stalingrad. strateg. oboronite. operacija 17 ijulja - 18 nojab. 1942 g. (The Defense of Stalingrad: The Strategic Operation July 17 to November 18, 1942). 2009, ISBN 978-5-94889-010-4 .
• 1941, bitva za Kiev: 7 ijulja - 26 sentjabrja. (1941 Battle of Kiev, July 7th - September 26th). 2008, ISBN 978-5-699-25317-3 .
• 1942-j ... ot tragedii Kryma do pobedy pod Stalingradom Tysjača devjatʹsot sorok vtoroj ... (1942 From the Crimean Tragedy to the Victory in Stalingrad). 2008, ISBN 978-5-9533-3134-0 .
• 1941-j: ot tragedii Vjazmy do pobedy pod Moskvoj. (1941 From the Vyazma Tragedy to the Victory Before Moscow). 2008, ISBN 978-5-9533-2305-5 .
• 1944-j: ot Korsuni do Belgrada. (1944 From Korsun to Belgrade). 2008, ISBN 978-5-9533-3424-2 .
• U sten Berlina. (On the border of Berlin). 2009, ISBN 978-5-9533-4436-4 .
• Srednij tank T-34-85. (The medium tank T-34-85). 2009, ISBN 978-5-9533-3964-3 .
• Tanki, vpered! : kurʹezy tankovoj vojny v bitve za Leningrad (tanks, forward !: Curiosities of the tank war during the Battle of Leningrad 1941–1944). 2009, ISBN 978-5-9533-3884-4 .

Web links

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