How Kornilov stormed Ekaterinodar
27 — March 31 1918, the army of Kornilov stormed Ekaterinodar. It was the first major field battle of the Civil War in Russia and the last battle of General Kornilov ...
How they buried the Chernobyl divers who saved Europe
About the feat of the three engineers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, nicknamed "Chernobyl divers", and their further fate ...
Fiends on the Black Sea. Little-known crimes of the Nazis in the area of Novorossiysk. Part of 7
Major General Ion Nikitchenko and Colonel Alexander Volchkov represented the accusation from the USSR at the Nuremberg Tribunal. These people have done a very difficult job ...
Vladivostok - the main Russian fortress in the Far East
Vladivostok is an important Russian city and port in the Far East. It was founded in 1860 year, as a military post "Vladivostok", in 1880 year received city status. Throughout his time ...
Wroclaw City, bronze gnomes and diorama of the battle of Raczawica (part 2)
On the subsequent events that followed these, the historian N.I. Kostomarov. in his monograph "The Last Years of the Commonwealth" says: "Ygelstrom sent against rebellious ...
Romania in the WWI. Unfulfilled opportunities
From the very beginning of the war, the Entente and the central powers sought to draw Romania into its side. Interest in it was determined by the fact that the Romanians could put the army in 600 000 people ...
Alexander Matrosov. Part of 3. On the identity and nationality of the hero
Continuing the theme of the exploit of Alexander Matrosov, I want to touch on the theme of the hero's nationality, which is ailing for some critics. And also slightly push the curtain over the secret of Alexander's origin ...
The case of General Slashchev
The great success of Soviet intelligence in the beginning of 1920's was the return to Russia of a major figure of white emigration, General Slashchev ....
In the wilds of barbed wire. H.2
We continue to talk about positional defense on the Russian front of the First World War and its elements. Its most important element was machine guns ...
Wroclaw City, bronze gnomes and diorama of the battle of Raczawica (part 1)
An interesting thing is our life. For example, you come somewhere and you think that you will know one thing, and you will know something completely different, and even something that you would never know otherwise ...
How Manstein saved the German army from the Caucasian "cauldron"
During the offensive, Soviet troops advanced 300 – 450 km, liberated most of the Rostov region. However, the German command, skillfully maneuvering and controlling troops, creating ...
US archival materials on how Gorbachev was promised "non-expansion" of NATO
In March 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev became the president of the USSR. The article tells about the materials published by the American National Defense Archives related to "guarantees" about ...
"Port Arthur Syndrome" or fraternization in Japanese
"The Japanese, now imbued with full respect for our soldier, very often, without arms, get out of the trenches and serve a pen" ...
Locks of Perigord, one after the other ... (part three)
So we finally got to the castle of the opponents of the lords of Castelnau, the castle of Beynac. The place where he stands is a high limestone rock about a hundred meters in height, clearly speaks of his ...
Bloody Battle of the Ice Campaign
15 — March 17 The 1918 of the Year The Volunteer Army defeated the red troops at Vyselki stations and Korenovskaya during a bloody battle ....
"Midge" which became a mosquito for the Nazis: the feat of SKA-065
25 March marks the 75 anniversary of the legendary feat of the small hunter SKA-065 type MO-4. On that day, a small (sometimes “sea”) hunter, who was often called a “midge” in his own way, turned into ...
According to the covenant of Heinrich the Navigator. Path to India: Cabral Expedition
The goal to reach India - a country rich and colorful, outside of all European standards at that time - was set by Prince Enrique the Navigator as the most important task of foreign and domestic policy ...
Gotland bout 19 June 1915 g. Part of 2
So, at the meeting with Commander-in-Chief V.A. Kanina after a five-hour debate 17 June 1915 was made a fundamental decision about the raid on Memel ....
How England gave Hitler Austria
13 March 1938, Hitler triumphantly entered Vienna, he was greeted with applause and flowers. On the same day, the law “On the reunification of Austria with the German Empire” was published ....
Alexander Matrosov. Part of 2. Anatomy of the feat
The second part, dedicated to the exploit of Alexander Matrosov, is devoted precisely to the analysis of what was happening on the battlefield in the Pskov region. With some insights from our day ....
The historian who seized machine guns
It is always wonderful when theory is combined with practice. In the history of the Russian army there is a man who not only wrote fundamental historical works, but also accomplished feats on the battlefield ...
Poisoned feather. Paradoxes of the Soviet press of the era of the Great Patriotic War ... (1)
Everyone knows that 22 June 1941 was a turning point in the life of our country. The Great Patriotic War began, and the Soviet media immediately began to carry out the relevant military ...
As the United States did not give the USSR to join NATO
As the Soviet Union almost became a member of the North Atlantic alliance and why the West stubbornly opposed these attempts ....
Alexander Matrosov. Part of 1. Gods are not overthrown from pedestals
The past century has brought us many saints, even if not in the very common understanding of this term. It was decided to overthrow them from their pedestals, to wipe them out of history. How fair and necessary at all - in ...