Day of closed doors.

Significant events in the world of music - BIRTHDAYS

Dаt composer and pianist was born April 28, 1848. Studied in Copenhagen. FROM 1884 studied in Weimar under the direction of . AT 1886-1907 lived and worked in Vienna, spent the last two years of his life in Berlin.

FROM among essays Schitte– operas "Hero" (1898 , Copenhagen) and "Mameluke" (1903 , Vienna), ballets, operettas, the well-known piano concerto Op. 28, other piano pieces, ensemble pieces and songs. The most popular, however, were light pieces. Schitte widely used in the repertoire of music schools.

April 28, 1950 was born - a performer of the author's song. Graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University.

P Yesni has been writing since autumn 1967. The composition "Return from virgin lands" was written in 1968 . Total on account Anatoly Lemysh over 300 songs. He traveled all over the USSR with concerts in 1970-80s. Repeatedly included in the number of laureates. FROM late 1970s participated in festivals mainly as a member of the jury or an honored guest. To 1990 moved away from it. For some time he also sang a duet with his sister Elena.

FROM most famous song Anatoly Lemysh consider composition "See you". He writes more poetry than music. There were a couple of attempts to compose songs in Ukrainian. AT 1992 published a collection of poems "A wreath of sonatas to Kyiv" and the audio cassette of the same name, and in 1997 - audio cassette "My angel".

FROM currently works as a journalist in the field of culture and media. Lives in Kyiv.

was born April 28, 1955. English virtuoso keyboardist and violinist, musician with a classical education, a prominent representative of art-rock music. Group member U.K., Roxy Music, Jethro Tull, Curved Air, worked with King Crimson, Frank Zappa, was a guest musician at performances Yes, and etc.

Eddie played the piano from the age of 7, the violin from the age of 8. At the age of 16, he began playing the electric violin in a local band fat grapple. met with Curved Air and started playing with them. AT 1973 replaced Brina Eno in Roxy Music, with which he recorded 3 albums and participated in the tour.

In 1977 Eddie with former musicians King Crimson created a group UK, after the collapse of which 1980 started working on solo projects, accepted an invitation along the way Ian Anderson participate in his solo project. Eddie goes on a world tour, which ends with a triumphal concert in France.

In the 1980s Jobson released two albums: "The Green Album - under the project name Zinc" (1983 ) and electronic "Theme of Secrets" (1985 ). AT 1980s and 1990s Eddie successfully worked on television, in particular, wrote music for 100 episodes of the series "Detective Nash Bridges".

spoke at International Live Music Festival "Creation of the World" in Kazan August 30, 2008, where he played live for the first time in 20 years on violins specially made for him from plexiglass.

was born April 28, 1959. Soviet singer, best known for her songs "White Waltz" ("Afghan waltz") and "America the Separatist".

FROM She studied music, English and classical dances for 6 years. And in 1968 began to visit the studio of young announcers on Ukrainian radio, and with the Variety Symphony Orchestra of Ukrainian Radio and Television she performed in a children's operetta V. Shapovalenko "Queen Toothbrush" his first serious vocal part - the role of Masha.

In 1974 Irina Shvedova graduated from a music school in piano, where she had already begun to compose songs, of which three were recorded on the radio in 1977 (performed and accompanied by Irina herself).

In 1986 Shvedova became a diploma winner of the Ukrainian competition of pop artists in the city of Khmelnitsky, after which she came to the Crimean Philharmonic (Simferopol) in the ensemble "Crimea". She performed as a singer and keyboard player and together with the ensemble visited various regions of the USSR. AT 1988-89 worked in the Kiev Music Hall under the direction of Nikolai Baranov, and in 1989-90 - in the Kiev Variety Theatre.

In 1990 Irina Shvedova became the Laureate Festival "Song of the Year" with a song "White Waltz" and a year later - with a song "America the Separatist" composer Igor Demarin and poet Yuri Rogoza. AT 1992 won the Grand Prix in St. Petersburg on competition "Hit of the Year" with a song "America the Separatist".

Since 1990 the singer lives and works in Moscow. Released several CDs "Witch", "America the Separatist", "White Waltz", "Mom said", "Above the city", "Paris organ grinder").

He actively tours with solo concerts in Russia and abroad.

And famous Italian singer of Albanian origin (Ilirian Hoxha) was born April 28, 1961.

D debuted in 1978 with the album "Oxanna" single "Un'emozione da poco", one of the most famous songs of her repertoire, next to which are mentioned "È tutto un attimo", "Donna con te", "Senza pietà" and "Ti lascero".

H fourteen times the singer participated in Sanremo Festival, twice became the winner: in 1989 with a song "Ti lascero"(in duet with Fausto Leali) and in 1999 like a soloist with composition "Senza pieta".

P in parallel with her career as a singer, she works as a TV presenter in a pop program.

I Japanese composer of music for video games was born April 28, 1964. Initially, he wrote music for Tokyo Disney Resort, radio, Japanese television programs.

Received numerous awards, the first being "Best Game Music" for Lunar: The Silver Star 1991. AT 1997 he received a similar award for the soundtrack to Grandia, and in 2000 - for the music for the game Grandia II.

Noriyuki dreams of recording orchestral arrangements for his musical works.

April 28, 1966 was born Jorge Andres Bosso is an Argentine musician and composer. At the University of Buenos Aires he studied composition in the cello class, later continuing his studies in Switzerland with famous cellists Paula Sazbo and Robert Cohen.

I started composing music during my studies. The most striking examples of his rich and expressive language are "Seven Letters to the Seven Churches" and "Nostalgia…". Bosso He is also known as an excellent arranger who has created a number of works for the Italian Radio Orchestra and the Swiss Italian Orchestra from Lugano.

In December 2003 the Russian premiere was performed by "God save the Cellos!" and "O incoronata di viole, divina, dolce e ridente Saffo", and six months later - the execution "Requiem in memory of Giordano Bruno".

Written specifically for III Winter Surikov Arts Festival oratorio "I am Surikov, Russian Cossack".

M acedonian singer born April 28, 1980. Gained fame far beyond the borders of her country thanks to two performances at song contests and 2007.

M musical career Carolina started in 1991 with participation in the popular in the country competition "Makfest 91" where the young singer sang a song "Mom let me go", which later became a hit and gave the name to the debut album of the singer, released in 1992. Karolina often participates in the main music festival in Macedonia - Skopje Fest. AT 1994 she debuted on it with the song "Who will tell you", and in 1998 took 4th place with composition "Stolen Nights".

AT adult album Karolina Gocheva "I have a song" saw the light in 2000. It contained several hits "Love Me", "Despite Everything" and "Anxiety" which she performed in a duet with Toshe Proeskim. To build on the album's success, Caroline re-participated in Festival "Skopje-Fest" on which the song "For us" took 2nd place.

In 2002 second adult album released Karolina Gocheva "Why do dreams end". This year Caroline became popular in the countries of the former Yugoslavia thanks to the performance at festival "Suncane Skale" in Montenegro with a song "Tell me". AT 2002 Gocheva won Skopje-Fest 2002 with composition "It's up to us". This victory made it possible Carolina go to Tallinn to represent your country in a song contest Eurovision 2002. Here she became the 19th among 24 participants. At the competition 2007 the Macedonian finished 14th, improving her result.

In 2010 Karolina Gocheva released the ninth album "I'm falling under the sky", and in 2012 the singer's CD was released "Play songs".

BUT American actress and singer Jenna Noel Ashkowitz was born April 28, 1986 in Seoul (South Korea). At three months, she was adopted by Americans of Polish-Italian and Irish-English descent. She grew up in East Meadow, New York.

Jenna raised in the Catholic faith and attended Parkway Elementary School and Holy Trinity Diocesan High School, a Catholic school in Hicksville, Long Island, known for its strong theater education.

She began her career at the age of three with participation in the Sesame Street program. Actively worked on the theater stage, playing in productions such as Les Misérables, The King and I, The Laramie Project and Spring Awakening.

W The actress became famous for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang in the popular musical television series "Chorus" which started in 2009 and continues to the present.

Significant events in the world of music - DAYS OF MEMORY

R Russian composer was born August 16, 1761. At the age of 6 he was sent to the Educational School at the Imperial Academy of Arts, then he studied at the academy itself, where he mastered playing the harpsichord, music theory and composition. AT 1782 Fomina sent to Bologna to improve his musical skills, where he was elected a member of the Bologna Philharmonic Academy.

In 1786 Fomin returned to St. Petersburg, where he wrote his first opera "Novgorod hero Vasily Boeslavich" to a libretto by Empress Catherine II. The opera in five acts, completed by the composer unusually quickly (within one month) in the same year, was already staged at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg. Details of subsequent biography Fomina before 1797 little known. He failed to occupy a prominent place in the imperial court. AT 1788 Fomin wrote one of his most famous operas - "Americans" to a 19-year-old libretto Ivan Krylov. The directorate of the imperial theaters did not accept it for staging, and only in 1800 this opera saw the stage. Another famous essay Fomina- melodrama "Orpheus and Eurydice" to the text of the playwright Yakova Knyazhina (1791 ). AT 1797 Fomin was hired as a tutor at court theaters, where he helped singers learn opera parts.

- one of the first professional Russian composers, whose work had a significant impact on the further development of Russian opera. Heritage Fomina, however, remained little known until the middle of the 20th century, when some of his operas were staged in theaters in Moscow and Leningrad. Many of the composer's manuscripts have been lost. He died April 28, 1800.

BUT American jazz bassist, band member Modern Jazz Quartet was born April 30, 1923. He began playing the violin at the age of 8, and also sang at city concerts. He was drafted into the army 1944 . Deciding to take up music after the war, he bought a double bass and entered the Granoff Music School in Philadelphia.

AT soon he was already playing in the jazz clubs of the city with leading musicians. AT 1948 in Chicago Hit recorded with his brother on the album Milt Jackson as members Howard McGee sextet. After moving to New York in late 1940s Percy and Jimmy Heath found a job in Dizzy Gillespie's band. Around the same time he was also a member Joe Morris bands together with Johnny Griffin.

AT rather members Gillespie's big band, already well-known enough, decided to create a permanent group, forming Modern Jazz Quartet. When Brown left the team to join his wife's group -, Hit replaced him, and the band officially began performing and recording in 1952. MJQ played regularly until they broke up in 1974 . The next year and his brothers created Heath Brothers with pianist Stanley Cowell. In this team Percy began to play the cello, and when the quartet broke up, for some time he worked with by Sarah Vaughn.

Early 1980s Modern Jazz Quartet reunited for a tour of Japan, and only in 1997 ended the history of one of the best quartets in the history of jazz. This time it's forever. Some time later Percy revived with brothers Heath Brothers. Together they recorded two albums: "As We Were Saying" (1997 ) and "Jazz Family" (1998 ).

FROM released his first album as a conductor on the Daddy Jazz label in 2003 when he was 80 years old. Album titled "A Love Song" received rave reviews.

Significant events in the world of music - SIGNIFICANT DATES

April 28, 1968 in New York on Broadway, the premiere of the famous musical "Hair" took place, the film version of which in 1979 directed by Milos Forman.

April 28, 2007 Valery Kipelov took part in the band's anniversary concert "Master" "XX years". Later, this performance was included in the DVD of the same name.

Updated: April 13, 2019 by: Elena

Published on 28.04.18 00:52

Today, April 28, 2018, we also celebrate World Day for Safety at Work, International Day of the Veterinarian, Chemical Safety Day and other events.

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April 28, 2018 is the national holiday of Pudov Day. The Church today remembers the apostle from 70 Puda.

Pud lived in the 1st century in Rome. He worked as a high-ranking official in the Roman Senate. His house, like his soul, has always been open to believing Christians. In addition to ordinary people, he was lucky to host the chief apostles. Later, a church was made from the dwelling and called "Pastoral". According to legend, her intcbatch visited by the apostle Paul. Also, the apostle Peter performed church rites in it when he came to Rome.

Pud was a disciple and follower of the Apostle Paul. Together with him he went to preach the word of God. He was chosen among the 70 apostles who were sent to tell about the imminent coming of Jesus Christ.

During the persecution of Christians under Emperor Nero, Puda was captured and taken to a Roman court. He was repeatedly offered to renounce the Christian faith, but the apostle refused. He meekly accepted death at the hands of the executioner.

According to signs, if by night it gets noticeably colder - by clear days.

If the sky is clear during the day, and clouds have run up at night, then the weather will deteriorate - there will be precipitation.

World Day for Safety at Work is celebrated on April 28. Since 1989, the United States and Canada have hosted the "Dead Employees Memorial Day" event. It was initiated by the trade unions. The event was dedicated to workers who died or were injured on the job. In 2003, the International Labor Organization (ILO) established World Day for Safety at Work

International Day of the Veterinarian

International Veterinary Day is celebrated every year on the last Saturday of April. In 2018, it falls on April 28th. The event was established by the World Veterinary Association (WVA) in 2000. The purpose of the holiday is to draw public attention to the health of animals, the importance of timely treatment of diseases.

Chemical Safety Day

Chemical Safety Day is celebrated every year on April 28th. The first holiday was celebrated in 1997. The initiator was the public environmental organization Union "For Chemical Safety". The reason was an accident in 1974 in Chuvashia. On April 28, a fire broke out at the Novocheboksarsky plant, which produced chemical weapons. Tons of poisonous substances got into the air. Only a miracle and the heroism of the workers prevented the catastrophe and did not allow it to take on a global character.

Alexander, Anastasia, Andrey, Aristarkh, Vasilisa, Victor, Kondrat, Leonid, Lukyan, Sevastyan, Trofim, Fedor.

• 1563 - The printing house of the first printers Ivan Fedorov and Pyotr Mstislavets began to work in Moscow.
• 1914 Air conditioner patented in the US.
• 1925 - Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the SRFSR "On the registration of citizens in urban settlements" was issued.
• 1938 - Professor Lev Landau was arrested in Moscow on charges of espionage.
• 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl embarked on a journey on the Kon-Tiki raft.
• 2001 - the first space tourist flew into space.

• James Monroe 1758 - 5th President of the United States.
• Alexander Ostuzhev 1874 - Russian actor.
• Vladimir Kappel 1883 - Russian military leader.
• Kurt Gödel 1906 - Austrian logician.
• Donatas Banionis 1924 - Soviet and Lithuanian film and theater actor.
• Yuri Volintsev 1932 - Soviet film and theater actor.
• Saddam Hussein 1937 - Iraqi statesman and politician.
• Irina Asmus 1941 - Soviet actress, clown.
• Terry Pratchett 1948 - English writer.
• Penélope Cruz 1974 - Spanish film actress and model.

After an accident on set, documentary maker Jeremy Salinger suffers from severe depression. To be away from everything and everyone, he travels with his family to his wife's homeland, to South Tyrol, a quiet corner of wonderful alpine nature. While walking with his daughter through the Bletterbach Reserve Gorge, famous for its petrified fossil monsters, Jeremy accidentally hears a snippet of a strange conversation. What happened on Bletterbach in 1985, and what does Jeremy's wife have to do with this long history? He feels that he is obliged to unravel the mystery of Bletterbach, and only this goal keeps his dying mind afloat ... For the first time in Russian!

A series: Stars of the world detective

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The following excerpt from the book The Essence of Evil (Luca D "Andrea, 2016) provided by our book partner - the company LitRes.

Welshboden greeted me with the soothing smell of burning wood and tobacco. Werner poured me a glass of herbal grappa and I offered him a cigarette.

“A storm over the Siebenhoch,” I reminded him. If you don't change your mind about telling.

“The last thing you need to know before I start talking about the massacre. Self-initiating thunderstorms are impossible to predict. Even today, with all the electronic hell at our disposal, all we know is that it's going to rain and a decent thunderstorm will break out. How terrible the storm will be, there is no way to know. So they went on a hike.

- Evie, Kurt and Marcus.

All three were experienced climbers, especially Kurt. Trust me, he wasn't one to look for danger, but even a light rain didn't frighten him. Besides, when they left Siebenhoch, the rain had not yet begun. Here, Jeremy, I must be very clear: no one could have known what kind of storm was coming. Self-initiating thunderstorms are unpredictable.

- What time did they leave?

“We never knew for sure. Most likely dark. Let's say around five in the morning. Only tourists give themselves time to sleep, going for a walk in the mountains. Werner paused. “The Visitor Center hadn't been built in '85 yet, Blatterbach was a wild place. Have you noticed that there are now two routes laid there?

“And woe to those who deviate from the marked path,” I recalled Ilze's parting words.

“Well, in those days there were no reliable routes on Blatterbach. Only old hunting trails, barely noticeable among the thickets of ferns, and clearings laid by woodcutters, who, however, did not lead far. It makes no sense to cut down the forest below, in the depths of the gorge: how do you order the logs to be lifted up? The stream is not wide enough to float them downstream, and there were no roads that trucks or jeeps could pass through.

In the depths of the gorge.

- It started to rain at about ten in the morning. A thunderstorm is like a thunderstorm, there is little lightning. The fact that she foreshadowed a hurricane ready to break out, no one understood. In April, thunderstorms often occur in our area, and we at the Rescue Service prepared for a long and boring watch. We played cards all day, and it grew darker outside. At about five in the evening my partner came, and I decided to return home. As soon as I got there, I heard the storm change.

– Did you hear?

“I felt like I was under bombardment. The downpour drummed with such force that I was afraid that the windshield would break, and the thunder rolls ... deafening - to put it mildly. Anneliese…” There was a slight sadness in his voice. Is she still afraid of thunderstorms?

Yes, and quite strongly.

I didn't add that Anneliese had found a surefire cure for this phobia: sex. It is unlikely that a father would like to receive information of this kind about his daughter.

- I ate, took a nap in front of the TV until the electricity went out at about half past ten. This did not alarm me, a common thing in such and such a thunderstorm. I lit candles all over the house and looked out the window. You know, Jeremy, I don't believe in these supernatural things. Ghosts, vampires, zombies. I don't want you to think that I had a premonition. No, I wouldn't say that, but...

He didn't finish the sentence.

“I was nervous, very nervous. Thunderstorms never scared me. They even like me. All this power that hits the ground makes you feel like, I don't know, like you're in the grip of something great that surpasses you many times over. And it's a wonderful feeling. But that evening, the lightning drove me crazy. I couldn't sit still. To calm down, I began to check the equipment. Not the one I used when flying on a call by helicopter, but an old backpack that was used for hiking. As I fastened the last buckle, there was a knock at the door. Hannes, Günther and Max.

– Max Kroen? I was amazed. - Sheriff?

“Head of the Forest Corps,” Werner corrected me. – Do you know him?

Let's just say we exchanged a few words.

- And what did he look like to you?

I pondered for the right words to describe him.

- A kind uncle who dresses up as Santa Claus. But woe to him who angers him.

Werner slapped his knees in approval.

“You know how, Jeremy. Kind uncle, who is better not to anger. Did you piss him off?

- I was very close to it.

- He's a real man. Hard. Must be, at least when wearing a uniform. But if you had a chance to exchange a few words with him when he was not on duty, you would see a man who is intelligent, sensible and very entertaining.

What was he doing in 1985?

- He served in the Forest Corps as a simple ranger. The boss then was Commander Gubner, who died four years later, just before the Berlin Wall came down. In March, he had his first heart attack, and Max, still just a boy, had to shoulder all the work. And here he comes to me, his face is very young, his eyes are like those of a beaten dog. Soaked through in the rain. He can't find a place for himself from excitement. Hannes and Günther are with him. I knew both of them, and the sight of them did not bode well. He let the whole company in, offered to drink a drop to warm up. They refused. I know it sounds funny, but the fact that they refused to drink really scared me.

- Why?

- Max was still young and in the absence of Commander Gubner felt the burden of responsibility, especially in such weather. But Hannes and Gunther weren't jerks. Often we received unexpected calls in the middle of the night, this was not new to us. Lumberjacks who did not return home before dark, missing children, shepherds who fell into a ravine, all that sort of thing. Hannes and Günther have seen everything. Especially Hannes.

I finally made the connection.

- Hannes. Hannes Schaltzmann, I muttered. "Kurt's father?"

- He is.

I closed my eyes, trying to process what I heard. I tried to imagine what Hannes Schaltzmann must have experienced when he discovered his son's body. He leaned back in his chair, the heat from the fireplace burning his sides.

– And besides, Gunther never refused a shot. Especially from my special stock. By the way, why don't we have a drink?

He didn't wait for an answer.

He got up and brought a bottle. Stacks clinked.

- Special stock. Grappa made according to a century-old recipe of the House of Myres. Probably, once my ancestors were rich, but since then only excellent recipes have remained. But I'm not really complaining.

Why did you think they were rich?

- Because of the surname. Mayr. It means "prosperous". Many German surnames mean something, most often professions. Mayr in the local dialect Mayer, a landowner. Schneider is a tailor. Fisher is a fisherman. Muller is a miller. Does your last name mean anything?

“I'm American,” I said, a little softer than Bruce Willis. Our last names don't mean anything.

Werner corked the bottle and handed me a glass.

- Grappa infused with pepper. Produced, bottled and tested here by Werner Mayr.

“Old stories,” I said.

“For the old stories,” Werner nodded, “which are better left in the past.”

Liquid fire. The flames rushed through his veins and went out, and the heat was replaced by a soft warmth in his chest; the tongue tingled pleasantly.

Werner cleared his throat, pulled a cigarette out of my pack, and continued his story.

It was Hannes who raised the alarm. He spent the whole day outside the village, on work, and when he returned, he learned from his wife Helena that Kurt and his friends had decided to have a picnic on Blatterbach. We took a tent, which means we planned an overnight stay. Hannes wasn't worried at first. Although they had not spoken since Kurt moved to Innsbruck, Hannes knew that his son knew his business. He worked for the Rescue Service, and while that's not true, we rescuers consider ourselves to be some sort of mountain elite. In any case, we are not like many, we are able to see, and therefore, to foresee danger.

“But then the bad weather intensified, turned into a spontaneous thunderstorm, and Hannes became worried ...

“Not right away,” Werner said. These storms don't last long. They frighten, that the truth is true, but last a maximum of three hours. Everything's under control. But this thunderstorm did not weaken, on the contrary, it gained strength with every minute.

And then Hannes sounded the alarm.

And again I was wrong.

– Nix. Hannes left the house and went to the barracks of the Forest Corps: he wanted to talk with Max. The electricity went out, the telephone didn't work, but there was a short-wave radio transmitter at the headquarters of the Forestry Corps for emergencies. Hannes wanted to contact the Civil Defense in Bolzano, see if there was any cause for concern. Max was not there, and Hannes went to the guy's house, but he did not find him there either. That evening they celebrated the birthday of the girl who later became his wife, Verena. Hannes broke into the celebration like a raven, a harbinger of trouble. He apologized for the intrusion and explained to Max that he needed a shortwave radio transmitter. They returned to the barracks and tried to contact Bolzano.

– Did you try?

- Too many lightning bolts. There was so much interference, it was like sticking your head in a washing machine. Nothing like this has ever happened. They got scared. And only then decided to organize a rescue expedition. On the way we called for Gunther and all came to me together. And I already prepared the equipment, as if waiting for them. Werner shook his head. - Premonition? I don't know myself. I just do not know.

“It was about midnight,” he went on a little less confidently, “when we set off in the Rescue Service Campagnole. We left the village, but were forced to stop twice. For the first time, to move a tree downed by a storm; in the second, because the road was washed out, we had to hitch a jeep to a rock and thus try to drag it through the pit.

Was the situation that bad?

- Worse than ever.

Werner stood up and took a map out of his desk drawer.

“This is where the dirt road ended, which led to Bletterbach,” Werner moved his finger back a few centimeters, “and we only managed to get to this place.

I counted.

“Three kilometers left?”

“But it was about the son of a comrade.

“So no talking. We set off. Stones fell from everywhere, I heard them whistle. The road turned into a stream of mud, every step threatened to dislocate or fracture. Not to mention the blockages of trees and stones.

His rough finger pointed to a curve on the map indicating a drop in altitude, almost in the very center of Blatterbach, slightly offset to the east.

They were here, but we didn't know it.

Did the path lead there?

Werner grimaced.

- Something like. They went all the way here,” he pointed to the map, “somewhere before this place. Then they turned to the west, all the while keeping a course to the north, and deviated once more during the ascent. Right here.

“Do you understand why they veered off course?”

“The path must have become impassable by four o'clock in the afternoon, and Kurt thought that if you turned west, you could pass through the rock, even if it was crumbling and more fragile than the one on which the path had been laid.

Why did he change his mind?

“I suppose, but it's just speculation, that he wanted to get to the caves first, right here, see?

- In the old days, Siebenhoch was called Siebenholen, which means "seven caves." He probably hoped to find a dry spot and wait there. Only with the advent of darkness, realizing that this thunderstorm was special, did he understand: there would be no way for them to reach there, it was better to rise one mark, deviating to the east. Do you see here and here? These are small lowlands, they must have been flooded, so the only way up lay here. Here, in the clearing, we found them. They set up a tent under a ledge of rock, close to the mountain, so that the wind would not blow it away. He paused while I calculated how many kilometers they had to wander in the rain. Kurt knew his stuff. Was circumspect.

- When did you find them?

“The next day,” Werner replied dryly.

- The next day? I asked, turning pale.

It is incredible that four men, trained, dexterous, born in the mountains, took so long to cover the distance between two points that seemed to be very close on the map.

I thought so, because I was an ordinary city dweller with a poor imagination.

If only I had made the effort to visualize the downpour, the mud, the lightning, all the hell that Werner was trying to tell me about, I wouldn't have been so astounded. Besides, I was strong in hindsight, and this drove so many to the grave. I knew that Kurt and his friends were at this point only because Werner said so, but on the night of April 28-29, the rescue team had no idea about this.

- It was a bad night. Long-long. I repeat: I kept telling myself that it would be better for us to return.

But you didn't come back.

I waited for Werner to find the thread of the story again.

“The lanterns didn’t really help us, but at least they let us make sure that no one fell into some crevice. It was enough to count the glowing white dots. Somewhere around three in the morning, a huge stone fell right on Gunther, breaking through his helmet. Gunther tossed him away, cursed, and continued his search as if nothing had happened. Realizing that it was completely useless, we screamed until we were hoarse. At about five in the morning they allowed themselves to make a halt, for half an hour, no more.

He again indicated the route on the map.

We made the wrong choice. They took the right direction, to the northwest, but they thought that Kurt decided to go above the borders of the forest.

- Why?

“There was less chance of them being hit by a landslide. Of course, Kurt wouldn't go down into the gorge, where he would get stuck between the mud and the overflowing stream: that would be suicide.

“Kurt headed northwest…

Yes, but at a lower altitude than we are. In addition, he turned east, and we went straight. But in this roar, in the dark, when the stones flew everywhere like shrapnel, we could pass by the poor guys without even noticing. It's sad, but it's true.

When did you decide to turn east?

We didn't decide anything, we got lost.

I goggled my eyes.

– Lost? You?

- We're exhausted. At seven o'clock in the morning it was dark, as if at midnight. And we turned not to the left, but to the right. And they found that they had reached the bottom of the canyon when Max was almost swept away by the current. It was only because Gunther had such a quick reaction that he survived. Then we realized that we would never find Evie, Kurt and Marcus and that we had to get out of here, otherwise we would all perish in this hole.

Werner showed the long curve that the rescue team took out of the canyon.

We stopped at noon. The finger pointed to a point to the east of the ravine, and I was quick to note that from there, in a straight line, it was less than a kilometer to the place where they found the bodies of all three. - There was no more strength. My ankle hurt, everyone was hungry. We rested for about an hour. Visibility did not exceed two meters. The thing is rubbish. We were dying of fear, although we would never admit it out loud. We have not yet seen such a thunderstorm. It seemed as if Nature herself was rebelling against us. You see, Jeremy, usually the mountains... The mountains don't care about you. They are neither good nor evil. They are beyond the bounds of these nonsense that mortals amuse themselves with. They have been standing here for millions of years and will stand for who knows how long. You are nothing to them. But that day we all experienced the same feeling. Blatterbach rebelled against us. He wanted to kill us. Werner leaned back in his chair and pushed the map away. I think I need to take a break before continuing.

Werner wanted to smoke one of my Marlboros on the porch, under the awning. We stood and watched the snow fall, silently, each immersed in our own thoughts. Finally, as if sentenced to torture, he signaled me to return to the house.

It's time to end the story.

“By three in the afternoon, it seemed to us that the worst was behind us. This, of course, was a mistake, but it became brighter, and we perked up. Resumed the search. And an hour later they found them. Hannes was the first to notice what was left of the tent. A piece of red cloth clinging to a branch and fluttering in the wind.

Werner waved his hand to show what it looked like.

- The clearing where they set up camp was a few meters from us, behind a chestnut tree that blocked my view. All I could see was how this fragment of a tent was twisting in the wind ... - Werner shook his head. This patch, red on black and green, looked like that cat from Alice in Wonderland.

- Cheshire?

“It seemed as if Blatterbach himself was laughing at us. The air around us was filled with evil. I felt it the same way as the smell of the marsh that hit my nose. Only the sense of smell had nothing to do with it. You felt it with your whole skin, with your whole being. Something like electric current. Can you imagine?

Still no.

Werner looked at my scar.

– We moved on. Hannes in front, Max and Günther behind him, I was trying to keep up with everyone with my bruised ankle. Then I heard a scream. I have never heard a more terrible scream. The hair on my head stood on end. Shouted Hannes. We froze in place. Gunther in front of me, Max in front of Gunther. I tried to take a step, but my legs would not obey. In our mountains they say: "cast-iron legs." This happens during a panic attack or when too much lactic acid builds up in the muscles. So, my legs became cast iron.

- The idea is clear.

“But at that moment I didn’t feel fear. Although one of my best friends was shouting, for whom I would risk my life, knowing that he would do the same for me, my first impulse was to run away. Then…

Beast, I thought.

– What happened next?

- Max rushed at Hannes, grabbed him by the arms, threw him into the mud. Saved his life. There and then I thought that Max had panicked too: I just didn't get it. The clearing was about four and a half meters in diameter. A rock towered above it, on its top - what was left of the spruce. On our side, as I have already said, a chestnut tree grew, which closed the stage from us, and on the other side, a row of fir trees at the edge of the abyss. If not for Max's quick reaction, Hannes would have rushed there. He wanted to kill himself, but Max prevented him.

- My God.

“I grabbed Hannes and Gunther gave him a couple of slaps. He was out of his mind. I hugged Hannes as tightly as I could. And cried. I cried for a long time. Wept for Hannes, who kept screaming, screaming, rolling his eyes. Wept for what I saw. Or did not see: hugging Hannes, holding him on the edge of the abyss, I closed my eyes, screwed them tightly shut. But the little that I managed to see was imprinted in my head with exceptional clarity. I don't know how long we stood like that. Then I let Hannes go. We laid him under a chestnut tree, covered him from the rain with a cape, and ...

- The cloth of the tent was cut with something sharp. Some kind of blade. Patchwork lay everywhere. And they were, too…everywhere. Kurt is in the middle of the clearing, eyes open, looking up at the sky. They look at the clouds, but the expression on the face is by no means serene, I can assure you. He was missing both arms. One lay half a meter from the torso, the other in the undergrowth. There was a deep wound here. Werner tapped his chest. - A clean wound. Inflicted with an ax or a large knife, as the carabinieri said.

- With an ax?

“Evie had both legs cut off at the knee.

I felt bile rising up my esophagus.

- The right arm was broken: apparently, Evie was trying to defend herself. And the head was missing.

I involuntarily jumped up and rushed to the toilet. I vomited, but it didn't get any better.

Werner met me with a steaming cup of chamomile tea in his right hand. I drank gratefully. I lit up. I wanted to get rid of the awful taste.

- Tell me exactly?

– Did you find her? Evie's head.

- No, neither we nor the carabinieri found her. I will say more: the carabinieri found much less than what the four of us saw. A lot of things were washed away by the rain, and also, - here he lowered his voice, as if apologizing, - you know, the animals ...

And Marcus?

- It's the same with him. Only he lay a little closer to the descent. While running away, he fell and hurt his head. Deep wounds on the leg, on the shoulder, but the fall killed him.

- My God…

“On that day, the twenty-eighth of April, God looked the other way.

– What did you do?

- All this horror made us forget about time, and the storm came with even greater force. At seven o'clock in the evening.

- In four hours? Have you been there for four hours?

“He crawled in, Jeremy,” Werner whispered. - This horror crawled inside and did not want to come out. I do not want to make myself look like a weakling, but what we saw was saturated with such unnatural evil, yes, precisely evil, that the light of reason left us. Do you know that I often thought about this in later years? I think Max, Günther, Hannes and I all left a piece of our soul on Blatterbach that day. That day and the night that followed.

I almost suffocated.

“Are you saying that you stayed there for the night?”

- The ledge of the rock served as an excellent shelter, the rock around was eroded, swam like hot wax, but the clearing held on. Lightning flashed one after another, a miracle that none of us were incinerated. We had nothing else to do.

But the corpses...

“We covered them with our waterproof capes. They crushed the fabric with heavy stones and tried to collect the things of the poor guys so that they would not be blown away by the wind and washed away by rain. We knew that we were at the scene of a crime, and we were aware that the more items we saved, the more likely it was that the carabinieri would catch those who committed such a heinous atrocity. But the real reason we stayed there is the simplest. If we had moved, we would have died. The mountains have their own laws: whether you like it or not, it's true. Werner pointed his index finger at me. - In certain circumstances, exceptional circumstances, and those circumstances were more than exceptional, one thing is important ...

- Survive.

Werner rubbed his temple.

We spent the whole night there, huddled close to each other. Hannes prayed and howled, Günther scolded, and I tried to pacify both of them. In the morning, barely a little clear, we set off. Hannes could not stand on his feet, even if the Lord himself commanded him, my ankle was sore, so Max and Günther took turns dragging him. But Gunther wasn't quite right either. Do you remember when a stone hit his helmet?

He didn't finish.

This was not required.

We got to the truck. They put Hannes in the cabin and returned to the village. I took a shower and slept for ten hours straight. When I woke up, Herta didn't ask me anything. Cooked my favorite dish and I ate it. Only then did I realize what we had gone through, and I burst into tears in a way that I had not even cried at the funeral of my parents.

- You didn't call the police?

– The telephone did not work in Siebenhoch, there was no electricity. Shortwave radio transmitter? Couldn't get over the interference. It took the Civil Defense units two days to get through to us on scrapers. No one had the slightest idea of ​​what had happened on Blatterbach. Everyone knew that people accustomed to emergencies lived in Siebenhoch, so help was first sent to the villages located below, more populous and less adapted to difficulties than we are. The Carabinieri arrived on the 4th of May as the storm subsided. An investigation was carried out, but the killer was never found. In the end, both the Carabinieri and the Ministry of the Interior came to the conclusion that the guys were simply unlucky: they ran into the wrong person at the wrong time.

- And it's all? I asked in confusion.

Werner spread his hands.

- It's all. I hope the bastard died somewhere on Blatterbach. I hope after he butchered the poor kids, the mountains swallowed him up, and every time the flood overflows, I hope he brings a piece of the son of a bitch to the surface. But this is just hope.

- In Siebenhoch itself, no investigation was carried out?

- What do you mean? Werner asked, lighting a match and bringing it to the end of his cigarette.

“Someone from the village could have killed them. It seems obvious to me.

- You've got an imagination.

- Why?

“You are forgetting what a Siebenhoch is. Siebenhoch is a small community. Do you think that no one thought of what you just said? It was the first thing we thought of. But if someone had followed the guys on Blatterbach, we would have known about it. You trust me. Because everyone here knows everything about everyone. Every minute. In addition, to reach a clearing in such a thunderstorm, go down to Bletterbach, kill and return back, and in such a way that no one suspected anything ... no, this is impossible.

- However…

Werner stopped me:

- You promised.

I blinked.

- The history of the massacre is all here. She's finished. Don't let yourself be devoured, Jeremy. Don't let this story devour you as it devoured others.

- Whom - others? Like Hannes?

“Like me, Jeremy.

We were silent for a long time.

“Each of us experienced it in our own way. The whole village was agitated, although some...

“Some are smaller than others,” I whispered, remembering the comments Werner had passed on to me about the deaths of Evie and Kurt, which, after Anneliese’s misfortune in Alois’s shop, seemed more plausible to me than when I first heard them.

- We saw. We felt this… evil. And I made up my mind.

– Leave?

“I've been thinking about this for a long time. Didn't I tell you that I went to Cles to work in a printing house?

“You said you did it for Anneliese.

“She had a right to a father who didn't risk his own skin every day. But I kept silent about the fact that I simply could not stay here anymore. I saw how the inhabitants of Siebenhöh return to normal life, and did not accept it. Power lines were repaired, telephone communications were restored, roads were patched up, explosions were made in some places to artificially cause landslides. People didn't want to remember, and the Blatterbach massacre was soon forgotten. I saw all this and did not get tired of repeating to myself that it was unfair.

“You said I shouldn't let this story eat me as it has eaten others. Who else?

“A few hours after our return, when Siebenhoch was still cut off from the world, Hannes put the muzzle of a hunting rifle to Helena's head and fired, killing her on the spot. We found him catatonic, with a gun in his hands, next to his wife's corpse. He was arrested and placed in Pergin, in a hospital, where he stayed until the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven. He is buried here, next to his son and wife. People in Siebenhoch can be ruthless and talk too much, but everyone understood what happened to the Schaltzmann family. It wasn't Hannes who killed Helena, it was the bastard who killed Kurt, Evie, and Marcus. Gunther is also buried here. Sometimes I bring flowers to his grave, realizing that if the Gunther I knew had revived, he would have been mortally offended. I can hear him say… “Flowers? Bring me a beer, du Arschloch!”

- How did he die?

“Günther had never given up drinking before, and after Blatterbach he drank completely. Drunk, buzoteril. Max often had to put him in the barracks at night so that he would not mutilate someone. Drunk, he talked endlessly about the massacre. Obsession. He got it into his head that he had to find the killer. All this was told to me later, I was no longer living in Siebenhoch. In 1989 Gunther crashed his car. Was drunk as an insole. Died on the spot. It was better that way, he had suffered enough already. Do you know why I bring flowers to his grave? Because I feel guilty. Maybe if I stayed, Gunther would have someone to pour out his soul to. But I left. Others didn't know. They couldn't understand. They didn't see.

Max stayed.

- Right. But Max was also devoured by Bletterbach. He married Verena, the girl who celebrated her birthday then, took the place of Commander Gubner and works selflessly at his post. - Werner rapped out, looking into my eyes: - Too selflessly. This is his way of redeeming himself. Become the protector of the Siebenhoch, blow the brains out of strangers and tourists, because...

“Because only a person who came from outside could kill Evie and her friends.

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DEVELOPMENTS

1563 - Pioneers Ivan Fedorov and Pyotr Mstislavets began printing the first book.

1914 Air conditioner patented in the United States.

1920 - Azerbaijan SSR was formed.

1955 - Construction of the Baikonur cosmodrome began. 1956 - By decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces, the special settlement regime was lifted from the deported peoples.

1963 - the Vnukovo-2 air terminal was put into operation.

1968 - Leonid Gaidai's comedy "The Diamond Hand" was released, in which Yuri Nikulin, Anatoly Papanov, Andrei Mironov, Nonna Mordyukova, Nina Grebeshkova, Svetlana Svetlichnaya played the main roles.

2001 - Dennis Anthony Tito, the first space tourist, flew.

April 28 events that took place in the world, in different years Source: http://calendareveryday.ru/index.php?id=12/4/28 calendareveryday.ru

1563 - Pioneers Ivan Fedorov and Pyotr Mstislavets began printing the first dated Russian book in Moscow - on the day Ivan the Terrible visited the new printing house (April 19, O.S.). Previously, there was an anonymous printing press in Moscow that published at least four books since 1553.

1566 - Start of construction of the Vologda Kremlin on the orders of Ivan the Terrible.

1599 - The English Parliament approved a common prayer book for the Anglican Church.

1621 - Ukrainian Orthodox priests wrote "Protestation", in which they substantiated the legitimacy of the restoration of the Orthodox hierarchy.

1686 - Isaac Newton presented the first volume of his monumental work The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy to the Royal Society.

1784 - Inventors B. Lonoy and J. Bienvenue in France demonstrated the first officially recognized self-propelled helicopter model.

1788 - Maryland becomes the 7th state of the United States.

1799 - The capture of Milan by Russian troops.

1847 - The British sailing ship Exmouth was shipwrecked en route from Londonderry to Quebec. 248 people died.

1848 - Writer Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin was exiled to Vyatka province.

1879 - The Constituent Assembly in the city of Tarnovo adopted the Constitution of Bulgaria. 1908 - The World Esperanto Association (UEA) is founded.

1914 - An air conditioner is patented in the United States.

1920 - Formation of the Azerbaijan SSR.

1930 - For the first time in US history, emigration exceeded immigration. This was due to the economic crisis and strict restrictions on entry into the country.

1937 - In the USSR, the Council of People's Commissars adopted a decision on the 3rd five-year plan.

1939 - Adolf Hitler's announcement of the denunciation of the 1934 Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact and the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement.

- Early in the morning, the TsKB-30 "Moskva" aircraft, piloted by V.K. Kokkinaki and M. Kh. Gordienko, took off from the Shchelkovsky airfield near Moscow. Thus began a one-day non-stop flight from Moscow to the United States at a distance of 8,000 km at an average speed of 348 km/h.

1945 - American troops occupy the city of Augsburg without a fight.

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed.

1947 - The Polish authorities launched Operation Vistula to deport Ukrainians from Lemkivshchyna and Kholmshchyna to Western Poland.

- Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five comrades set sail on a balsa raft from the western coast of South America to Tahiti. The raft was named after the legendary Inca god Kon-Tiki. The voyage lasted three and a half months, during which the sailors covered a distance of 5,000 nautical miles, thereby confirming the likelihood of Heyerdahl's hypothesis that Native Americans could colonize Polynesia.

1956 - By decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces, the special settlement regime was lifted from the deported peoples.

1963 - The Vnukovo-2 air terminal was put into operation.

1967 - American boxer Cassius Clay (future Muhammad Ali) (Cassius Marcellus Clay - Muhammad Ali) is deprived of the right to participate in fights due to his refusal to serve in the US Army.

1969 - Voluntary resignation of Charles de Gaulle from the presidency of France.

1973 - Omsk State University was founded.

1978 - The Bolshoi Theater hosted the premiere of Yevgeny Svetlanov's one-act ballet "Kalina Krasnaya" based on the film story of the same name by Vasily Shukshin.

1982 - Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR was published on awarding Novosibirsk with the Order of Lenin for the great services of the city's workers in the revolutionary movement, their contribution to the fight against the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War and the successes achieved in economic and cultural construction.

1988 - M. Gorbachev, at a meeting with the Russian patriarch, announced the return of the church's religious buildings.

1990 - The title of Marshal of the Soviet Union was awarded for the last time: it was awarded to Dmitry Yazov, who participated in the State Emergency Committee a year later.

1991 - The first meeting of the Masonic Lodge ("Northern Star") was held in the USSR.

1997 - A terrorist act was committed in Pyatigorsk.

2000 - Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia signed an agreement on the construction of an oil pipeline to transport Caspian oil bypassing Russia.

2001 - Flight of the first space tourist Dennis Tito.

2003 - Kyrgyzstan is recognized as the most corrupt country among the seven poorest countries of the CIS. Such information is provided in a joint report by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Asian Bank. Source: http://calendareveryday.ru/index.php?id=12/4/28 calendareveryday.ru

One Day Events

April 28, 1877 The official opening of the Stamford Bridge football stadium in Fulham, London took place. The stadium has a capacity of 41,798 spectators and is the ninth largest football stadium in England. Stamford Bridge has been the home ground of Chelsea Football Club since 1905.

April 28, 1883 in the family of a lawyer was born the German physicist Max Planck, one of the founders of quantum theory, a foreign corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the German and Austrian Academies of Sciences, as well as scientific societies and academies in England, Denmark, Ireland, Finland, Greece, the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, the Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States. He died on October 4, 1947. Only his first and last name and the numerical value of Planck's constant are engraved on his tombstone.

April 28, 1898 The first two ambulance stations were opened in Moscow. A little earlier, such rescuers appeared in Vienna, Berlin and London. The first Moscow ambulances, first of all, rescued drunk people who were unconscious on the street.

April 28, 1903 The great genius Josiah Willard Gibbs, an American theoretical physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, died. Born February 11, 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of a professor at Yale University.

April 28, 1937 Iraqi statesman Saddam Hussein was born in the city of Tikrit in northern Iraq. His birth name is Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti. The boy was raised by his uncle, a very devout Sunni Muslim. President of Iraq (1979-2003), General Secretary of the Iraqi branch of the Ba'ath Party, Marshal (1979); overthrown in April 2003 by US-British invasion. Executed by an Iraqi court on December 30, 2006.

April 28, 1939 born Evgeny Olegovich Adamov - Russian statesman, doctor of technical sciences, professor; Minister for Atomic Energy from 1998 to 2001.

April 28, 1939, speaking in the Reichstag, Hitler announced the annulment of the German-Polish declaration of 1934 on friendship and non-aggression.

April 28, 1948 Terry Pratchett was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, an English writer, author of over 70 books. Known primarily for the satirical fantasy cycle "Flat World". The total circulation of his books amounted to about 50 million copies. He died on March 12, 2015 in the UK, at the age of 67 from Alzheimer's disease.

April 28, 1953 Vasily Iosifovich Stalin was arrested. “As you know, Joseph Stalin died in March, and only a month and a half later, on April 28, his son Vasily Stalin was arrested. He was accused of exceeding his official powers, embezzling large amounts of money and was sent to the Vladimir prison.” (Razzakov F.I. Dossier on the stars. Their love are talking about them. - M.: CJSC Publishing House EKSMO-Press, 1999, p. 621).

April 28, 1956 A decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was issued on the removal of the regime of special settlements from the deported peoples.

April 28, 1957 The World Federation of Twin Cities was formed. Twin Cities Day is celebrated on the last Sunday in April.

April 28, 1961 Decree of the President of Czechoslovakia on awarding Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin the "Hero of Socialist Labor of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic" was issued.

April 28, 1969 Leonid Gaidai's comedy "The Diamond Arm" was released.

April 28, 1973 born Ukrainian TV presenter and journalist Oksana Mikhailovna Marchenko.

April 28, 1974 Penelope Cruz Sanchez, the most famous Spanish actress and model in Hollywood, was born in the working-class district of Madrid, the capital of Spain. She became the first Spaniard to win an Oscar for her supporting role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

April 28, 1978 Roman Lazarevich Karmen (real name Kornman) died in Moscow - a Russian filmmaker, director and cameraman of documentary films, People's Artist of the USSR (1966), Hero of Socialist Labor (1976), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960), Stalin Prize (1942, 1947, 1952), USSR State Prize (1975). Born November 29 (November 16, O.S.) 1906 in Odessa.

April 28, 1978 Muhammad Daoud (Sardar Ali Muhammad Lamari bin Muhammad Aziz Daoud Khan) was killed in Kabul - an Afghan statesman, president since February 1977. He came to power as a result of a bloodless coup, during which his cousin Zahir Shah was overthrown, and Afghanistan became a republic. From 1973 to February 1977 head of state and prime minister. His government carried out social and economic reforms. April 27, 1978 was overthrown and the next day killed in a military coup prepared by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Born July 18, 1909 (according to other sources, 1908) in Kabul.

April 28, 1980 in Moscow, in the famous television family of Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov and Svetlana Anatolyevna Maslyakova (nee Semyonova), Alexander Alexandrovich Maslyakov Jr. was born - Russian TV presenter, host of the KVN Premier League, general director of TTO AMIK LLC » .

April 28, 1986 at poet, musician and singer Yuri Eduardovich Loza and his wife Svetlana Valentinovna Loza a son was born Oleg. Graduated from the Gnessin School (2001-2005), conductor and choral department, opera singer, baritone. He studied at the Moscow State Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky and LI them. Gorky, worked in the modeling agency Vyacheslav Zaitsev as an assistant director (2003-2007).

April 28, 2007 By decree of the government of the Russian Federation, the Triumph (S-400, originally S-300PM3, air defense UV index - 40R6, according to the codification of the US Defense Ministry and NATO - SA-21 Growler, literally "Growler") was adopted - a Russian anti-aircraft missile system large and medium-range, anti-aircraft missile system (SAM). Designed to destroy all modern and promising means of aerospace attack.

April 28, 2009 Ekaterina Sergeevna Maksimova, Russian ballet dancer and teacher, died in Moscow; People's Artist of the USSR (1973), laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1981), State Prize of Russia (1984, 1991), soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre. Maternal granddaughter of philosopher Gustav Gustavovich Shpet. She was born on February 1, 1939 in the same place.

April 28, 2012 in the concert hall "Crocus City Hall" in Moscow, Nyusha's first big show "Choose your miracle!" During the concert, the singer presented three new songs: two solo songs - “Recollection”, the video was directed by Alexei Golubev, “Association” and a duet with her father Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Shurochkin (“You Are My Life”).

April 28, 2014 In front of the stairs of the Parliament building in Cape Town, President Jacob Zuma, in the presence of Frederick de Klerk, unveiled a bronze bust of Nelson Mandela on a granite plinth 2.28 meters high.

April 28, 2014 The EU Council blacklisted an additional 10 Russian citizens and five leaders of the resistance forces in eastern Ukraine, bringing the total to 48. All persons on the lists are banned from entering the territory of the European Union for six months, and their assets in European banks are subject to freezing. The United States on the same day expanded its blacklists, adding seven names and the names of 17 Russian companies controlled by people from Vladimir Putin's inner circle. . Following the US and the EU, Canada has expanded the package of sanctions against Russia and its black list. At the same time, Japan announced anti-Russian sanctions, including 23 Russians on its black list. A. R. Rotenberg also got into the "Canadian List".

April 28, 2015 A Progress M-27M truck was launched on a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which failed to dock with the International Space Station at the scheduled time. Inadequate telemetry, incorrect launch of the apparatus into orbit by the Soyuz-2.1a rocket and its uncontrolled rotation around its axis are called as the causes of malfunctions that interfere with the fulfillment of the tasks of Progress.

April 28, 2015 in Moscow, at the age of 53, Batyrkhan Kamalovich Shukenov, a Kazakhstani and Russian pop singer, composer, poet, musician, saxophonist, ex-soloist of the A-Studio group, died of a heart attack. He was born on May 18, 1962 in the city of Kyzyl Orda, in Kazakhstan.

April 28, 2016(until May 1, 2016) Sochi will host the third in the history of the Russian Grand Prix of the world championship in circuit racing in the Formula 1 car class.

- 1827 Decree of Emperor Nicholas I on the establishment of the Gendarme Corps.

- 1891. A sample of a three-line (7.62 mm) rifle invented by the Russian gunsmith S. I. Mosin was approved. With minor upgrades, it was in service with the Russian and Soviet armies for more than 60 years.

This rifle had a mass with a bayonet of 4.5 kg, a combat rate of fire of 10-12 shots / minute, a magazine capacity of 5 rounds, an aiming range of up to 2000 m. In 1907, a carbine was created on the basis of the Mosin rifle.

- 1915 formation in Russia of the first special battery for the defense of a strategically important object from an air attack. On the basis of the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief No. 277, a separate battery was formed for the defense of the Imperial Residence from aeronautic vehicles under the command of Lieutenant Colonel V. Maltsev, which was the first special military formation of air defense of the country's facilities, which included both mobile and fixed anti-aircraft guns and lighting equipment.

- 1919 The beginning of the counteroffensive of the Southern Group of Forces of the Eastern Front under the command of M.V. Frunze against Kolchak and the defeat of the White Guard troops of Kolchak.

- 1939. At 4 hours 19 minutes, the TsKB-30 (DB-3b) "Moscow" aircraft took off from the Shchelkovsky airfield with a crew of V.K. Kokkinaki and M. Kh. Gordienko on board. On the same day, he landed in the Western Hemisphere on about. Miskau (USA). The path of 8 thousand km along the orthodromic arc across the Atlantic Ocean was covered in 22 hours 56 minutes. For this flight, the pilots were awarded the Order of Lenin and the medal "For Courage".

- 1942 Birthday of the Guards in the Railway Troops. For the courage and heroism shown in the battles against the Nazi invaders, the 28th separate railway brigade under the command of N. V. Borisov was transformed into the 1st guards separate brigade.

- 1942. By order of the NKVD No. 00852, the Main Directorate of the Internal Troops of the NKVD (I. S. Sheredega) was again organized, and in its composition, the Directorate of the NKVD Troops for the Protection of the Rear of the Red Army (A. M. Leontiev).

- 1961 Pilot G. K. Mosolov on a MiG-21F aircraft with additional rocket engines set an absolute world flight altitude record (34.714 meters) when taking off from the ground.

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BIRTHDAYS

Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt- German writer of church hymns of the Baroque era.
Dates of life: April 28, 1652 - August 11, 1712.

Marco Porturatsky(Mark Poltoratsky) - Russian and Ukrainian singer (baritone),
Dates of life: April 28, 1729 - April 24, 1795.

Ludwig Schitte is a Danish composer and pianist.
Dates of life: April 28, 1848 - November 10, 1909.

Harold Registan(real surname Ureklyan) - Soviet poet, author of lyrics for more than 400 songs.
Dates of life: April 28, 1924 - November 04, 1999.

Ginette Renault is a French-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter.
Date of birth: April 28, 1946.

Anatoly Lemysh- Russian singer-songwriter.

Willy Colon- Puerto Rican musician, salsa performer.
Date of birth: April 28, 1950.

Eddie Jobson- English virtuoso keyboardist and violinist.
Date of birth: April 28, 1955.

Jimmy Barnes(James Dixon Swan) is an Australian rock musician and songwriter.
Date of birth: April 28, 1956.

Irina Shvedova- Soviet singer, best known for the songs "White Waltz" ("Afghan Waltz") and "America the Razluchnitsa".
Date of birth: April 28, 1959.

John Morris Rankin is a Canadian musician.
Dates of life: April 28, 1959 - January 16, 2000.

Anna Oksa(Ilirian Hoxha) is an Italian singer of Albanian origin.
Date of birth: April 28, 1961.

Noriyuki Iwadare is a Japanese video game music composer.
Date of birth: April 28, 1964.

Jorge Andres Bosso is an Argentine musician and composer.
Date of birth: April 28, 1966.

Scott Mitchell Putesky(Scott Mitchell Putesky) is an American musician, co-founder and guitarist of the band Marilyn Manson. Was known under a pseudonym Daisy Berkowitz(Daisy Berkowitz).
Dates of life: April 28, 1968 - October 22, 2017.

Howard Paul Donald- pianist, member of the English pop rock band Take That.
Date of birth: April 28, 1970.

Joseph Bruce is an American rapper, producer, wrestler and actor. Best known as Violent J from Insane Clown Posse (ICP).
Date of birth: April 28, 1972.

Dmitry Osipov- Russian musician, bassist of the band Crocodile T. X.
Date of birth: April 28, 1975.

Karolina Gocheva- Macedonian singer, participant of the song contest and 2007 years.
Date of birth: April 28, 1980.

George Nozuka(George Koichi Nozuka) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

Jenna Noel Ashkowitz is an American actress and singer.
Date of birth: April 28, 1986.

Christabel Borg(Christabelle Borg), better known as Christabelle, is a Maltese singer and member.
Date of birth: April 28, 1992.

DAYS OF MEMORY

Evstigney Fomin- Russian composer.
Dates of life: August 16, 1761 - April 28, 1800.

Ivan Bilibin- Russian composer and violinist.
Dates of life: June 27, 1818 - April 28, 1892.

Henryk Meltzer-Szczawinsky(Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński) is a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and music teacher.
Dates of life: September 21, 1869 - April 28, 1928.

Odysseus Dimitriadi- Soviet and Georgian conductor and teacher.
Dates of life: July 07, 1908 - April 28, 2005.

Esa Pakarinen(Felix Esaias Pakarinen) is a Finnish actor, comedian, singer, harmonist and composer.
Dates of life: February 09, 1911 - April 28, 1989.

Ken Curtis is an American actor and singer.
Dates of life: July 02, 1916 - April 28, 1991.

Percy Heath American jazz bassist, member of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Dates of life: April 30, 1923 - April 28, 2005.

Tom Donahue- American radio DJ
Dates of life: May 21, 1928 - April 28, 1975.

Tommy Newsom American saxophonist and bandleader.
Dates of life: February 25, 1929 - April 28, 2007.

B. W. Stevenson- American country singer
Dates of life: October 05, 1949 - April 28, 1988.

DEVELOPMENTS

1968 The musical "Hair" premiered on Broadway.

2007 - Valery Kipelov took part in the anniversary concert of the group "Master" "XX Years".

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