Finns, like the Swedes and Norwegians, are natural skiers. Deep snow cover, lack of roads, a rare population, the freezing of rivers, lakes and swamps invariably drew the attention of the Finns to skiing ...

An independent state called the Republic of South Sudan appeared on the world map recently. He is only a little over three years old. Officially, the sovereignty of this country was proclaimed 9 July ...

In the first months of the war, a certain pattern of actions took shape in the Russian army. The Germans were treated with caution, the Austrians were considered a weaker opponent. Austria-Hungary ...

In general, the War of the North and the South allowed the elite of the North to solve several basic tasks: 1) to bend the South under themselves, having received the possibility of further expansion of the “American Empire”. Already at the end of the century the USA, ...

In Italian sources devoted to the Second World War, almost the most heroic battle and an example of the high morale of the Italian army is called "an attack in the steppes near Izbushensky." In the morning 24 ...

On Memorial Day of the Unknown Soldier, we stand near the place where several thousand prisoners of war of the Soviet Army were shot and tortured. An amazing person brought us here. And it seemed to me (this ...

Irina Nikolaevna Levchenko - Soviet officer, guard lieutenant colonel, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1965), the first woman in the USSR to be awarded a medal ...

Romania in World War I is the capricious bride of the “Russian bear”. One of the main geopolitical intrigues of the first half of the Great War was the search for Romania’s place in it. At the beginning of the 20th century, this ...

In the famous novel by Vasily Grossman “Life and Fate” there are too many fantasies on a military theme. We often complain about how we won a war like the 1941-1945, and the novel ...

Among the events of world history that are most familiar to the Russian reader, the American Civil War (War of the North and South, the War between the States, the War of Independence of the South, the War of Secession) takes ...

Soldiers of the Japanese army: myths and reality Americans were afraid of them like fire. When Japanese planes appeared in the sky above the sea, the decks of aircraft carriers seemed to die out. All hope was on anti-aircraft gunners, but ...

Kotlyarevsky decided to crush the enemy's army with an unexpected blow, not allowing him to use his numerical advantage. October 18 before the march on the enemy, General Kotlyarevsky ...

November 1941. This was the first baptism. The first killed, the first wounded, the first abandoned helmets, horses without riders, cartridges in the ditches along the highway. Soldiers who have escaped from the environment, diving reptiles, automatic ...

During the Great Patriotic War, the defenders of the country were mainly associated with military medical institutions (61% nursing staff), communications units (80%) and road ...

While the Chinese were building their Great Wall of China, Russian military engineers erected a whole system of fortifications along the borders of the Russian state, called the "Big Zasechnaya ...

21 January 2015 marks one hundred and thirty years since the birth of Umberto Nobile, the airship's designer and explorer. Nobile was never just a desk worker - he himself designed ...

The assistant to the garrison duty officer, Lieutenant Imaev, was driving through the city as a senior of the Ural army vehicle to get food for the garrison guard in one of the military units of the garrison. Mood...

In his childhood, a gypsy woman told him that he would be lucky. It was really like this: the pilot-attack aircraft Sergey Andreevich Dolinsky was never injured or contused. But he learns about this much ...

Versatile knowledge allowed Kondratenko to organize the defense of the fortress in such a way that Port Arthur was able to repel the assault 4. As contemporaries noted, General Kondatenko did as much as he did not ...

In May, 1810, 30-thous. Abbas-Mirza's army invaded Nakhichevan. The Persians planned to enter Georgia through Karabakh. However, a small detachment Kotlyarevskogo stopped the enemy. With just about 300-400 ...

After World War I, many fortified areas and defense lines were built in Europe. In France - the Maginot line, in Germany - the Siegfried line against France and the Panther-Wotan line against very ...

The US military has never been particularly "politically correct." If there was an opportunity to arrange a provocation, they always went to it. However, more than thirty years ago, Soviet sailors repelled ...

All employees of Soviet diplomatic, trade and other missions accredited in the United States, sooner or later, long or briefly, are in the operational development of counterintelligence ...

Adherents of alternative history claim that if 100 years ago Russia took the Black Sea straits, the results of the First World War would be different, and the Second World War would probably go along ...