This small castle was located west of Lake Peipsi, northwest of St. George's. Yuryevsky voivode Katyrev-Rostovsky learned about the enemy's plans from the captured "tongues", so the garrison of Lais ...

Among the outstanding Soviet intelligence officers during the Great Patriotic War, the name of Alexander Svyatogorov is rightly listed. A brave Soviet intelligence officer managed to take part in the elimination of a military ...

How the Western countries' operations against Iraq began, including the perjury of the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, Naira al-Sabah, in Prague they prefer not to remember ...

During the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact was considered the main military-political bloc uniting the socialist countries ...

The heroism and courage of the defenders of Sevastopol and the flight of the command in the last days of the defense ...

Cossacks: origin, two historical centers, Donets and Cossacks ...

Everything that you, dear readers of "VO", will see here, is used on a completely legal basis and without violating anyone's copyright! ...

We have a source of information, it is quite reliable. These are Egyptian frescoes depicting the Semites in long, beautiful robes, often of striped fabric, similar to the Egyptian Kalasiris ...

Russia's unnecessary war with Japan gave rise to a chain of new negative consequences that dragged the Russian state into a new trap of 1914 ...

In early April 1945, on the Dutch island of Texel, a bloody uprising of Georgian soldiers of the 822nd Infantry Battalion of the Wehrmacht against their German comrades began ...

Our opponents in the Great Patriotic War highly appreciated Soviet weapons and military equipment ...

Was it worth saving Austria several times? After all, the collapse of the Habsburg empire was beneficial to our state. We could support Hungary's aspirations for independence and fetter Austria ...

The rebels took over Beijing and laid siege to the embassy quarter, where its personnel, including women, had to fight for their lives with arms in hand. What are the norms of international law, when the slogan of the day: ...

The Battle of Grengam was the last significant battle of the Northern War, which lasted more than 20 years. The Swedish kingdom, which has lost all hope of success, exhausted and exhausted, ...

Let's try to understand the question of which formations our intelligence took for the tank and motorized divisions of the Wehrmacht by June 1, 1941 ...

Over the past centuries, England has been the most dangerous enemy of Russia. She did more harm to Russia than Napoleon and Hitler. In the XX and XXI centuries. England shares this place with the USA, which has continued and developed ...

Cavalry units appeared in European countries, many of which proved to be so good that they soon turned from national to international ...

The collapse of the USSR was prepared by "democrats" and nationalists. After the glasnost program (revolution of consciousness), the "reform" of the authorities and administration began. Each stage was justified in the course of perestroika ...

Campaigns to confiscate gold and jewelry to the USSR Industrialization Fund ...

In intelligence reports there were numerous references to the presence of German infantry divisions at the border (which the German command did not particularly hide). And what did the scouts report about the connections ...

Let's start our acquaintance with the mass types of cavalry - the enemies of cuirassiers. Different countries, different times ...

By the end of the reign of Paul I, the Russian cavalry had thirteen cuirassier regiments in its composition. But by 1803 their number had been reduced to six ...

On July 23, 1920, the Lvov operation began. After stubborn and bloody battles, Soviet troops were unable to take Lvov. This is due to the mistakes of the Soviet command, which overestimated its ...

Saxony took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812. The allied cavalry also included a heavy brigade of cuirassiers. Many experts believe that this was the best heavy cavalry ...

"Perestroika" was a creeping counter-revolution. The elimination of Soviet civilization and the state, the victory of the "white" liberal-bourgeois pro-Western project in Russia-USSR ...

Today computers play a huge role in our daily life, and they are widely used by the military. The first computers for military purposes appeared in our country back in the late 1950s ...

Called to defend the country of Soviets, the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army was tried to be put on wheels from the moment of its birth ...

250 years ago, a Russian commander defeated the Turkish army on the Cahul River. The losses of the Turkish army, according to various estimates, ranged from 12 to 20 thousand people killed, drowned, wounded and captured ...