The story of how the Ottoman Empire abandoned the printing press for three hundred years has long been a textbook example of technological backwardness...

Ilya Ehrenburg's articles were very emotional, one might say, "fire-igniting" and inspiring to great deeds...

The silhouettes of 15 tanks, 15 state-of-the-art vehicles, were barely visible in the pre-dawn twilight. Behind them lay a night march, and ahead...

If we turn to the history of the Spanish Civil War, we can find examples there of courageous performance of military and civic duty, and not only on the part of good Republicans...

After Soviet air defenses finally managed to shoot down the U-2, Soviet airspace ceased to be a "passageway for foreign reconnaissance aircraft"...

The Battle of Rakovar significantly surpasses both the Battle of the Neva and the Battle on the Ice in scale, yet for some reason few people in our country know about it.

What should a truly modern museum of ancient armor and weapons be like, and what should it look like to provide maximum convenience for its visitors? Today, we'll explore just that...

Having reached the Yalu River, the Americans could easily appreciate the Russian proverb (though it was hardly known to them) about "entry is a ruble, exit is two": returning back to Hamhung turned out to be much...

A. Zheleznyakov in 1918-1919: "The Guard is Tired," battles in Bessarabia and near Tsaritsyn, underground work in Odessa, the article's hero's last battle, posthumous glory....

1055 years since the heroic defense of Dorostol by the troops of the great Russian prince Svyatoslav Igorevich...

Israel and the United States' actions to destroy Iran's military and political leadership are contrary to their own interests. Why? This article will discuss this, including in the context of the former...

If you look at Switzerland in the circumstances of World War II, without hindsight, moralizing, and post-war PR, it becomes clear that they were simply very lucky...

A. Zheleznyakov: the beginning of a revolutionary career, a sailor and anarchist, his arrest and adventurous escape from Kresty, the storming of the Winter Palace, a "business trip to Moscow," the defense of Petrograd...

915 years ago, Russian troops defeated the Polovtsians at the Salnitsa River. The Polovtsians, contrary to the myths of Western historians, were neither Turkic nor Mongoloid. The Polovtsians had light eyes and fair hair...

General MacArthur's plan called for an offensive toward the Yalu River with the 8th Army in the west of the peninsula, the South Korean Corps along the east coast, and the US 10th Corps in the center....

In the annals of world industrial history, events are rarely encountered that can so clearly divide a technological era into “before” and “after”...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York now has a whole gallery dedicated to Bashford Dean, and the description of the armor in the museum's collection includes the donor's name. It makes sense that at least some of this...

In response to US and Israeli aggression, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, threatening shipping and disrupting global trade. This is reminiscent of the so-called "Tanker War" of 1984–1988.

The essay describes the preparation of conscripts for service in the USSR Airborne Forces (VDV)—specifically, their training in parachutist courses at DOSAAF.

Mikhail Muravyov. One of the founders of the Red Army, commander and commander-in-chief, who led the mutiny in Simbirsk...

Books about the Spanish Civil War...

Hitler called Switzerland "a pimple on the face of Europe" and that "all the rubbish of the small nations still existing in Europe must be liquidated," thus expressing his deep contempt for this...

Mikhail Muravyov: a peasant's son who became a captain in the Tsarist army, a lieutenant colonel in the army of the Provisional Government, and one of the founders of the Red Army.

370 years ago, the Russian Tsardom began a war with Sweden in order to regain the lands lost during the Time of Troubles and access to the Baltic Sea....