Calendar of significant and memorable dates. January 29th
Battle of Kruty -a battle that took place on January 16 (29), 1918, at the Kruty railway station near the village of Kruty and near the village Pamyatne, 130 kilometers north-east of Kiev, 18 kilometers east of Nizhyn. This battle lasted 5 hours between the 4,000-strong Bolshevik Mikhail Muravev Army and a detachment of students from Kiev and free Cossacks, which in total numbered several hundred soldiers. This event in the history of the formation of the Ukrainian state has shown patriotism and sacrifice of its citizens.
The library offers: a reference list of literature "Heroic of the tragedy of the Kruty".
Thematic Internet navigator:
- Kruty is already preparing to meet young people from all over Ukraine
- 100 years later: how Ukrainian cinema recreates the historic battle at Kruty
- Infographics to the memory day of the heroes of Kruty
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