Remember Kruty
At school class hours, students recalled defense Ukrainian statehood – Heroes of Kruty. For the current generation of students exploit their peer is an example of the struggle for independence and territorial integrity of our country. 99 years ago, after the creation of the Ukrainian National Republic at the railway station abruptly, over five hundred Ukrainian students defending Kyiv, entered into an unequal battle with the Bolsheviks.
For information. The battle took place on 16 (29) January 1918 near the railway station abruptly near the village of steep and memorable village, 130 kilometers north-east of Kyiv, 18 km east of Nezhin.
This fight lasted 5 hours between the 4000th unit of the Russian Red Guard led by Mikhail Muraviov and detachment of cadets and Cossacks Kyiv “Free Cossacks”, which generally consisted of about four hundred soldiers.
In the battle of Kruty youths stopped the enemy. The Soviet army lost its fighting capacity in four days.
