70 years ago, 12 January 1945, the Vistula-Oder strategic offensive operation began. In the course of this operation, the troops of the 1 of the Belorussian Front under the command of Marshal of the Soviet Union ...

Alexandra G. Samusenko - Soviet tanker, communications officer, guard captain. Took part in the Finnish War 1939-1940, on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War - from 22 June 1941, ....

By the end of 1916, economic hardship in Russia was exacerbated, there was a shortage of food, shoes and clothing in the country and the army. The origins of this economic crisis go to 1914 year. Because of war...

Exactly 45 years ago, on 13 on January 1970, the act of signing the surrender of the self-proclaimed state of Biafra ended the bloody civil war in Nigeria - one of the first major ...

240 years ago, 10 (21) January 1775, Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev was executed in Moscow on Bolotnaya Square. Calling himself "emperor Peter III," the Don Cossack raised the Yaik Cossacks to revolt. Soon...

Practically every scout from the platoon of lieutenant Sergey Shpakovsky received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Perhaps this is the only case of mass awards to the highest award of the country during ...

In the XVI-XVIII centuries. attempts to create their own colonial empires were made by a number of "secondary" countries of Europe, which did not play a significant role in the great geographical discoveries and subsequent ...

Among modern young people around the world, the image of a person about whom they know very little is extremely popular. His image is more likely a protest of youthful maximalism than a real desire ...

The events of 2014-2015 constantly overlap with the events of 1917-1921 on the same long-suffering territory of New Russia. Civil wars are similar to each other anywhere in the world. Civilians ...

People born and living in Russia must jointly take care of its prosperity and well-being, and most importantly - about peace in the country, regardless of their political beliefs and specific ...

The Caucasian front differed from the fronts of the Western theater of the Great War in that it did not know defeat. At any time of the year, not a trench positional war was fought here, as in other places, but active combat was going on ...

Amazing finds can be found in archival collections. One of them is a unique photograph of the engineer A.N. Tupolev, designer of metal TSARI snowmobiles, passed in the 1927 run of the year 2240 ...

By the beginning of Operation Battleship, the forces involved in it totaled more than 50 vessels: transport, military, and auxiliary. All of them were divided into two convoys. 25 April 1942 of the year from Durban ...

For Afghan warriors, the New Year is a special holiday. December 29 - anniversary of the Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The war, which for many years has been called international duty, is long over for us, but ... ...

Mikhail Nikiforovich Efimov. The first Russian certified pilot At the beginning of the twentieth century, the name of the pilot Mikhail Efimov gained wide popularity. The world admired each new achievement of the talented pilot ...

21 January 2014 marks the 313 years since Peter I issued the decree on the establishment of the first military engineering school in Russia. Historians consider this day the beginning of organizing the training of military engineers ...

Haters of the Soviet past that demolish V.I. For some reason, they forget to Lenin that Ukraine itself, within the borders of the 2013 of the year, is a product of Lenin's national policy, supplemented by ...

The names of the famous marshals and generals, who became the immediate smiths of the Great Victory, are known to many. Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Konev, Malinovsky ... There is hardly anyone in Russia who does not know these ...

In 1942, pilot Nikolai Kildishev did not return from a combat mission. Mother received a funeral, mourned her younger son. But then a miracle happened - a letter arrived. In light brown, worn from ...

Lev Landau was born on the shores of the Caspian Sea in the oil capital of the Russian Empire, Baku. In the middle of the nineteenth century, in the nearby settlement of Bibi Heybat, the first was drilled ...

Colonial possessions in the West Indies have always been of strategic importance to the British Empire. Firstly, they made it possible to control the military-political situation and trade in the Caribbean; ...

Oceania is perhaps the most forgotten and little-known corner of the world, consisting of many islands, and extremely colorful in ethnic, linguistic and even racial terms. Outside...

We have already talked about the close ties between Russia and Ethiopia that have been established since the end of the 19th century. During the modernization of the Ethiopian state under Emperor Menelik II, Russian military advisers ...

"Turkish Napoleon" Enver Pasha, encouraged by some success of the Turkish army at the beginning of the Caucasian campaign, conceived a broad offensive operation on the Caucasian front in the winter, with the aim of surrounding ...