In the midst of the First World War, in the deepest rear of the Russian Empire, the largest national uprising took place on June 25 of June 1916, Nicholas II signed a decree on the mobilization of the male "foreign" ...

Contradictions between elites that were never resolved, the impending change of power in Russia, led to the second Chechen war. The official history of the fighting is described in many sources and with ...

After the death of Stalin, Mao Zedong could become an equivalent “leader of all peoples” figure in the world communist movement and countries of the socialist camp. Which, accordingly, increased the international role and ...

6 (18) February 2015 marks 120 years since the birth of one of the legendary Marshals, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, People’s Commissar of Defense of the USSR of the first days of the Great Patriotic War –...

The hostile attitude of the Austrian Empire was one of the main foreign policy factors that led Russia to defeat in the Eastern (Crimean) War. Although in the prewar period in St. Petersburg ...

There were interesting pages in the history of the penetration of Europeans into Asian countries: for example, the centuries-old domination of the "white Rajas" - an entire dynasty of English origin reigning in the northern part ...

What is happening now with the history of the Great Patriotic War, all these defiantly impudent speculations about “Soviet aggression against Ukraine and Germany”, “Ukrainian liberation of Auschwitz ...

At the end of 1942, the Bulgarians, preoccupied with the supply of weapons from Germany to Turkey (a total of Turks were supplied by 56 Pzkpfw. III Ausf. J and 15 Pzkpfw. IV Ausf. G), their traditional enemy, ...

160 years ago, 5 (17) February 1855, the Russian troops in the Crimea tried to take Yevpatoria by storm. Since the landing of the Allied Army on the Peninsula, the location of the enemy forces in this city has caused ...

The geography of ethnic groups likes to throw up amazing surprises. Moreover, scientists who are engaged in archeology and research of nationalities, recognize that it is impossible to comprehend this science at the maximum ...

Today is the round anniversary of the tragedy, which the Nazis once called the "Mühlfiertel hare hunt". On the night of February 2 to 3, 1945, the prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp were raised from ...

Throughout the winter and spring of the 43 year, numerous field and front-line tests of a new modification of the attack aircraft, Henschel-129 B-2, were carried out. Designers, pilots and technical services carried out ...

29 July 2015 marks the birth of 115 since the birth of Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonravov, the pioneer of rocket and space technology, one of the closest associates of the Chief Designer of the rocket ...

For the first time the Bulgarians got acquainted with a new type of military equipment - tanks, in 1917, when a group of officers visiting the Germany was shown captured allied tanks. However, 17 ...

For 8 days of the Crimean Conference (February 4-11, 1945), the leaders of the allied powers of the anti-Hitler coalition agreed on zones of control and influence in the post-war world. They redrawn the state borders in Europe ...

Radical Albanian nationalists organized riots in Pristina, unprecedented for the "independent" Kosovo, giving a real battle to the police. Despite the efforts of the EU, not all Kosovars agreed ...

How Japanese gunsmiths helped stop the German offensive and ensure the protection of Lenin During the First World War, yesterday became one of the main allies of Russia, after England and France ...

70 years ago, 4 February 1945, in the Livadia (White) Palace in Yalta, in the Crimea, opened the second meeting of the leaders of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition - the USSR, the USA and England. Joseph Stalin, Franklin ...

Since the mid-1920's. Anarchists, like representatives of other political parties and organizations, lost the opportunity to legally act on the territory of the Soviet Union. Many domestic ...

Let's go back to Berlin, to Ghana. This work was the culmination of his scientific work. Next - silence, a departure from science. Why? One can only guess. Germany was changing, and not to notice it was ...

Valery Chkalov was born on the banks of the Volga in the village of Vasilev, seventy-five kilometers from Nizhny Novgorod. The whole life of the fellow villagers and his family was connected with the great Russian river. His great grandfather and grandfather ...

Today Goa is one of the most popular Indian resorts. Someone comes here for the sake of a banal beach holiday, someone is more interested in getting in touch with the culture of India, albeit in its "tourist" ...

Since its opening in 1920, the eastern branch has gained strength in terms of education and disciplinary. In 1922, the eastern branch was expanded and became known as the eastern division. By order of the RVSR ...

How the Don Cossacks fought the Ottoman Empire on the banks of the Danube The Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812 remains a little-known event in Russian history. The reason for this is clear: ...