Group   

men and women killed in the WW2 Arctic Convoys

Countries: Russia

men and women killed in the WW2 Arctic Convoys

Thousands of men and women died in the Arctic Convoys,1941-5.

WW2DB gives these stats: "In total, 104 Allied merchant ships were sunk with the arctic convoys, along with 18 warships; 829 merchant mariners and 1,944 navy personnel were killed aboard them. The Soviet Union lost 30 merchant ships and an unknown number of personnel. In the attempt to disrupt the convoys, the Germans lost 5 surface warships, 31 submarines, and many aircraft."

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
men and women killed in the WW2 Arctic Convoys

Commemorated ati

WW2 Arctic Convoys memorial

Our image shows a close-up of the logo on the memorial. We think that the bir...

Read More

Other Subjects

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist. Born to an aristocratic Russian family. 1870s had a spiritual awakening and become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Religion, Seriously Famous, Russia

1 memorial
Piotr Ouspensky

Piotr Ouspensky

Philosopher. Born in Moscow. He became a pupil of George Gurdjieff who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to transcend to a high...

Person, Literature, Philosophy, Russia

1 memorial
Alexis Kow

Alexis Kow

From Velocetoday we learn: Kow was born near St. Petersburg as Alexis Kojewnikow (or Kogeynikow) and was studying in Switzerland when the 1917 Russian revolution happened. He went on to Paris where...

Person, Art, Sculpture, France, Russia

1 memorial
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and the ruler of the Soviet Union 1927-53. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–52) and Cha...

Person, Politics & Administration, Russia

1 memorial
Soviet citizens & service men & women died in WW2

Soviet citizens & service men & women died in WW2

27 million Soviet citizens & service men & women died in WW2.

Group, Russia

1 memorial