The meeting place of Putin and Trump in Alaska is named after the participant of the intervention
The US military base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, where, according to media reports, a meeting between Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump may take place, was named after a participant in a foreign military intervention in northern Russia.
The Kremlin and the White House announced last week that Putin and Trump will meet in Alaska on August 15. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the summit would be held in Anchorage. CNN, citing unnamed White House officials, reported that the meeting would take place at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base.
Brigadier General Wilds Preston Richardson of the United States Army was a well-known researcher of Alaska and participated in the “Northern Campaign” of the interventionists against the Bolsheviks at the end of the First World War. The Fort Richardson base, opened in 1940, is named after him.
In the same year, the United States Air Force Base Elmendorf was opened nearby, named after Air Force Captain Hugh Merle Elmendorf, who died in a test flight.
Military bases were fortified in light of World War II and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and then the concentration of forces was increased in the arms race between the United States and the USSR during the Cold War. Subsequently, many names of military equipment were transferred due to the US involvement in the Vietnam War.
The two military facilities were merged in 2010. Currently, more than five thousand military personnel and civilians live at the joint base, its territory is more than 339 square kilometers, it serves an infrastructure worth $ 15 billion, according to official data.