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the Victory Parade on red square, children’s railway, the first exhibition of Picasso and other memorable dates and events that occurred on 24 June in different years.

on 24 June 1812 Napoleon’s army crossed the river Neman and invaded the territory of the Russian Empire. The Patriotic war of 1812, ended in the victory of Russia and the almost complete destruction of Napoleon’s army.

on 24 June 1901 in Paris held the first exhibition of 19-year-old artist from Barcelona Pablo Ruiz Picasso. The founder of cubism, according to expert estimates, the most expensive artist in the world: in 2008 only the volume of official sales of his works amounted to 262 million dollars.

June 24, 1935, in Tbilisi was opened the first in the USSR children’s Railways. DSB provided invaluable assistance in the training of specialists for Russian Railways in the periods when the country on a number of demographic reasons has experienced acute shortage of qualified personnel.

on 24 June 1945 in Moscow on red square Victory Parade was held in honor of the Soviet victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war. The parade took Marshal Georgy Zhukov, commanded the parade Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky. The culmination of the parade was throwing Nazi banners and banners to the Lenin mausoleum.

24 June 1900, was born Mikhail Zapashny, the founder of the circus dynasty of zapashnyh. Mikhail Zapashny did not have circus roots and came to the arena as a longshoreman in Yeisk — great strength the young man noticed the wrestler Ivan Poddubny, and invited Michael to try his circus.