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The Special callsign was operated by the QRU club members from Obninsk on the occasion of the celebrating of the victory in the Great Patriotic War in 1945. The birthplace of Marshal G. K. Zhukov is the village Strelkovka, in Kalugzaskaya oblast.

    Georgij Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Great Russian military leader and statesman of the 20th century, Marshal of the Soviet Union. He was born in 1896 in a poor country family in Strelkovka village near the city of Maloyaroslavets of Kaluga province. Zhukov began his military career in 1915 during the WWI as a non-commissioned officer and was decorated with the famous Russian order of "Georgievskij Krest" twice. Since the Great October Socialist Revolution in 1917 he worked his way up from platoon leader to army group commander and under his leadership in 1939 Russian and Mongolian troops brought utter defeat of the Japanese Army near the river Khalkin-Gol. He showed himself especially worth during the WWII. In 1941 he became a chief of the General Staff of the USSR and commanded the west battlefront during Moscow defense. Since the August 1942 he already was a deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief and carried out the coordination of the battle of Stalingrad, Leningrad, Kursk and the river Dnepr. On behalf of the General Staff of the USSR he accepted the unconditional surrender of the German Nazi's on the 8th of May 1945, then he was a chief of military administration and chief commander of Soviet troops in Germany until 1946. After WWII, G.K.Zhukov took up responsible posts in leadership of the Soviet Army, and was awarded with the highest award of the Soviet Union - the Hero of the Soviet Union four times in 1939, 1944, 1945, and 1956. He was also decorated with highest military award - order of "Pobeda" two times. Back in 1994 the president of the Russian Federation decreed two new awards - the Order and the Medal of Marshal Zhukov.

For more detailed information visit http://www.zhukov.org