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 ...

By mid-October 1914, a positional front was established on almost the entire Western Front. In connection with the seizure of Antwerp, the German command had new goals - to seize the coast ...

During the Great Patriotic War, women not only sat at the arms of tanks, but also occupied commander posts in tank forces. Evgenia Kostrikova became one of the tank officers. Eugenia ...

Everyone knows that the first ram was made by captain P. N. Nesterov in the distant 1914 year. Many people know that the world's first night ram was carried out on October 27 on Soviet 1941 ...

100 years ago, 9 (22) December 1914, the Sarykamysh battle began. The Turkish commander-in-chief Enver-Pasha, a student of the German military school and a big fan of the German doctrine, planned ...

2014 marked the 230th anniversary of the founding in 1784 by the pioneer merchant Grigory Shelikhov of the first Russian permanent settlement in Northwest America on Kodiak Island. In 1789 ...

The Arab rebellion - the difficult path to difficult freedom The Arab rebellion of the 1916-1918 years was one of the epochal episodes of the Great War outside the European theater of operations, which completed the collapse ...

For a long time the signature stamp "Perfectly Secret" lay at the work of PSU KGB of the USSR. Especially at the work of the First Main Directorate of Foreign Intelligence of the USSR against the United States of America. Doctor of Historical Sciences,...

Forty years ago, in October 1974, an experimental launch of the Minuteman-5 ICBM was carried out in the United States from the military transport aircraft C-1A. It was the first ever launch of a rocket of this class with ...

In October 2014, a seemingly minor incident occurred on the Algerian-Moroccan border: several Moroccan citizens were injured by the fire of Algerian border guards. However, the reaction ...

95 years ago, in December 1919, the existence of the North-Western White Army of Yudenich ended. Her combat path was not very simple. In 1917-18 The Baltic States and the Pskov province were occupied by the Germans ....

In the Russian emigration of the 1930-s, the attitude towards JV Stalin was, on the whole, negative, which is quite logical. All the same - the leader of the Bolshevik Communists, from whom the diverse opponents fled ...

The Brusilov Breakthrough is a heroic beginning, missed opportunities and the bloody finale The Brusilovsky Breakthrough is perhaps one of the few well-known historical symbols of the Great War, about which ...

After the battles on Marne and Ene, the space of approximately 200 km between the positions on Ene and the sea remained unoccupied. In the remaining sectors, from Enes to Switzerland, the front stabilized. French ...

The sea spaces adjacent to South Africa and Madagascar are very far from the main theaters of operations of the Second World War. Events taking place in this area of ​​the globe in ...

Long-standing cultural and historical ties connect Russia and Ethiopia. It would seem how far away from us this East African country is! However, Russia and Ethiopia have many common moments in history ....

The intelligence agencies of the Soviet state in order to work in the countries of the East needed not just people devoted to the revolution, parties, etc., but highly qualified specialists with knowledge ...

Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky was born 21 June 1910, on the farm Zagorje, located near the village of Selco (now Smolensk region). The surrounding area, according to the very ...

After the battle of Marne, the German troops retreated to the north and 12 of September 1914 took up defensive positions along the rivers En and Vel. French and British troops reached the line on September 13 and launched an offensive ....

Exactly twenty-five years ago, on December 25 of 1989, the president of the Socialist Republic of Romania (CPP) Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena Ceausescu were executed. Man, twenty four years old ...