Vladimir Vinnichevsky and Arkady Neyland are two juvenile offenders who were sentenced to death. The execution of the second was contrary to the Constitution of the USSR ...

The 14-i reserve division had, in addition to both the anti-tank platoons of the 14-nd field artillery regiment and two batteries of the 40-th and 16-th reserve infantry regiments, only 1-m and 3-m divisions ...

7 October 2010 of the Year Crosby-Garrett helmet was auctioned by Christie for a fantastic amount of 2,3 £ million to an anonymous buyer by telephone. Who sold? ...

Saxon diplomat Georg Gelbig, in 1787, with Catherine II went on a trip to the Crimea. Upon his return, he wrote an article about villages that were painted on boards: Potemkin villages ...

21 March 1891 was born A.V. Gorbatov. The man who will later go through three wars and will be the commandant of Berlin. The man about whom the film "The General" will be shot ....

Concluding the conversation about the specifics of the positional defense, we note that the positional war brought back another relic of the Middle Ages - stone throwers ...

The problem of identifying their own and others on the battlefield has always been acute. In the era of chain mail in Europe, people entered the battlefields, dressed from head to toe in identical gray-red armor. How to distinguish? ...

In their memoirs, the Hitlerite commanders wrote about the “General Frost,” and sometimes they called him “General Zima” ...

Calling Anatoly Vasilyevich Lyapidevsky the first Hero of the Soviet Union is somewhat wrong. Still, the feat was a collective ...

The young fighter of the Bosnian Serb army Spomenko Gostich did not live to 15 years. 20 March 1993, he was killed by Bosnian Muslims. But the Serbs remember the boy who became the son of the regiment ...

Georgy Ternovsky, a man with a "reactive" initiative, was an enthusiast of the use of rocket systems in the navy. This influenced his appointment to the Directorate of Arms and Supply of Navy Ammunition ...

One of the main fronts of the Civil War was the confrontation of power and peasantry. The peasantry opposed any government at all. The peasants created the project of the people's liberty ...

Britain and Russia are doomed to confrontation. Why?...

Do we know that the Russian army experienced the first chemical attack of the enemy a dozen years before we were aware of the facts related to the history of the First World War - in December 1904, during ...

The main task of the Soviet periodical press in the years of the Great Patriotic War: to raise the morale of the citizens of the USSR, to instill in the minds of people hope for a quick victory ...

Kornilov fulfilled his initial task (to bring the army to Ekaterinodar). But he could not seize the capital of the Kuban. 31 March 1918, he died ...

Next year will be fifty years of events on the island of Damansky. Former of our island, and now the territory of China ...

"Sultana". The explosion of a steam boiler claimed the lives of more than 1700 people. On his deathbed, the saboteur reported that the explosion of the “Sultana” was supposed to be his work. Is it true?...

Vasily Yakovlevich Chichagov is a significant figure in the rich history of the Russian fleet. The service life of this admiral and explorer came in the XVIII century - stormy and significant. This time was rich ...

80 years ago, in March 1938, Austria became part of “Greater Germany”. The accession took place without a single shot and with the full support of the Austrians ...

When the Russian cruisers were preparing to go to the rendezvous at the Vinkov bank, the armored cruiser Roon, the minelayer Albatross and the five destroyers left the Neifarvasser ...

We continue to talk about the specifics of the offensive in a positional war on the Russian front of the First World War. Often the situation was such that the force of systematic enemy fire ...

Did people play sports in the middle ages? Engaged! Challenging in humans in the blood. And besides, it was necessary to constantly prepare for wars ....

At the height of the great battle on the banks of the Volga, which was pivotal in World War II, the Soviet troops carried out another offensive, which also ended with the encirclement of the German troops ...