The triumph and tragedy of Otto Ghana. Part I
The news of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused such a shock in Otto Hahn, the discoverer of uranium fission, that his friends had to be on duty around him around the clock, fearing suicide ...
Entertaining geometry
F11F was one of the last fighters, the main weapons of which were guns. Shooting shells were thrown out through special ports and sometimes damaged the fuselage and stabilizers. To ...
The story of one tin. Part two
Often the SD-4 HL bombs are called the German response to PTABs or even their counterpart. In fact, both are far from the truth. Firstly, the first experimental samples of this and many ...
Light and shadows of the Bolivarian revolution
An amazing fate for this country. Here was born and raised the greatest patriot of Latin America - Simon Bolivar, who led the victorious struggle of the peoples of this continent against the Spanish ...
To life - on the "Road of death"
At my house on the wall, as, probably, in the apartments of many Petersburgers, hangs under the glass a large photograph of my parents, Viktor Antonovich and Nadezhda Alexandrovna, from the time "immediately after the war" ...
"Do not dare to touch a woman, if she goes to the front to defend Russia!"
What the World War I saw as soldiers of the Women's Death Battalion Maria Bocharnikova By summer 1917, the Russian army was falling apart before our eyes - some soldiers deserted, others were enthusiastically discussed ...
Battle for Prasnysh
At a time when the 10-I Russian army led unequal battles with the superior forces of the 8 and 10 of the German armies, on the line of the rivers of the Lower Beaver and Narew ended concentration and deployment again ...
Partisans of Eastern Siberia. Peasant Army Kravchenko - Shchetinkina
The period of the Civil War was characterized not only by the confrontation of the Red Army with the “whites", but also by the appearance of numerous rebel armies, which significantly differed in their ideological ...
Cossacks and the October Revolution
After the revolution, on the political scene, besides members of the State Duma and the Provisional Government, parties of socialists of different shades, as well as groups of social democrats, ...
The importance of appointments is determined not only by characterizing documents.
The publication of the weekly Military Industrial Courier №46 for December 10 2014 of War and Peace did not work, part II, the respected author M.M. Hodarenok comes to the conclusion that the Supreme Headquarters ...
Over the valley and on the hills
As Israel and Syria waged a high-tech war in Lebanon, Lebanon, despite having a border with Israel, for a long time remained aloof from the Arab-Israeli wars. To a large extent ...
War for Jenkins Ear
RP recalls the most unusual armed conflicts in the history of mankind. History knows examples of wars and conflicts that were given to the contemporaries and descendants by unusual, and in some cases ...
Under Peter, Westernization became irreversible.
28 January (8 February) 1725 of the year, 290 years ago, died the last Tsar of All Russia and the first emperor of Russia, Peter I Alekseevich. With the reign of Peter begins a new, imperial, period of our ...
Was the USSR going to attack Germany?
At one time, the compositions of V. Suvorov (Victor Rezun) “Icebreaker” and “Day-M” made a lot of noise, where on the basis of some indirect sources he claims that the Soviet attack on Germany was ...
Beginnings began: science and chance
The history of military affairs linked the name of the greatest geometer and mechanic Archimedes, who lived two and a half centuries before our era. Archimedes had to use his scientific knowledge in defending his ...
S.N. Vlasyev. Mortar inventor
In one of the November days, officers of the Japanese army looked at the fragment of an unknown projectile in surprise. Hurricane artillery fire has just ended. All ingenious undermining, which are two ...
In the mirror of Europe
At the dawn of independence, we republished a book by the emigrant historian of the 30s Vladimir Sichinsky "Foreigners about Ukraine" (in the original - "Foreigners about Ukraine"). According to her ...
Six day success
Why the Israeli army managed to win the Six Day War The Six Day War (5 – 10 June 1967) in the Middle East became largely a household name. This term in a wide ...
Stanislav Tarasov. Transcaucasian future through the prism of history
Transcaucasia is one of the most sensitive regions of the world, responding to the slightest change in international and regional conjuncture. Conflict, centrifugal and separatist principles prevail here ...
Women tankers of World War II. Valentina Barkhatov
Among the women who during the Great Patriotic War happened to be in the tank forces was Valentina Barkhatova. Ironically, Valentina managed to make war on the English tank ...
Women tankers of World War II. Alexandra Boyko
The fates and stories of all women tankers who took part in the Great Patriotic War are unusual in their own way. The case of Alexandra Leontyevna Boyko (Morisheva) is also unique. During the war years she ...
The long war "Sudanese Napoleon." Anti-French Wrestling in West Africa
Currently, illegal migration from the underdeveloped countries of Asia and Africa is one of the most important social, economic and political problems of European states. Recently, literally all ...
Kite Bay - Alexandria Kremlin
Prior to the Mongol conquests, Baghdad was the main transit center for the Mediterranean trade with the countries of the Mediterranean and India. After the destruction of Baghdad in 1258 by the Mongols under the leadership of ...
War without boots
What windings are and why the Russian army had to change shoes on the roads of the Great War “The boot of a Russian soldier” - over the centuries of Russian history this expression has become almost an idiom. At different times ...