In October, the 1942 of the year, a rocket built in Nazi Germany, rose to a height that can be attributed to space. The place of its launch is an army test site and research ...

The two Balkan wars (1912 - 1913) can rightfully be called the prologue of the First World War. Roles were identified, some ideas and new methods of warfare were tested. Believed to be ...

At the beginning of 1944, the Red Army began the liberation of the western regions of Ukraine, on whose territory numerous centers of nationalist ...

In October of this year, the Polish court will begin hearings in the case of the German newspaper Die Welt. A few years ago, in one of its articles, the authors used the phrase "Polish concentration camp" ....

After the Battle of Smolensk (for more details in the article VO: Battle of Smolensk 4-6 (16-18) August 1812), the Russian army left the city, having crossed on the night of August 18 on the right bank of the Dnieper River ....

Much has been said about Michael Illarionovich Kutuzov. Most describe Kutuzov as a kind of medieval Roland, a knight without fear and reproach who saved Russia from the bloodthirsty Napoleonic ...

Of the two outstanding anniversaries falling on 2012 year - the bicentenary of the victory over Napoleon and the four centuries of the end of the troubles of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries - preference is given in the media to the first ....

Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, the administrative and religious center of the south of the country. During the war, the city center was in the hands of the official authorities during the day, at night it passed under ...

He became a scout at the age of fourteen. And in the incomplete sixteen on the personal recommendation of the chairman of the Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky was enrolled as a cadet in the Kremlin Red School ...

Alexander Vasilyevich Sidorov - military writer, graduated from the Perm Aviation and Technical School and the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Professor NE Zhukovsky, served in the aviation division ...

Today is a solemn day in the regiment - Part Day. On this day, our regiment was formed and he was given its main symbol - the battle flag. It is usually located in the headquarters of the regiment, where it is stored in a glass ...

In the army I had a small notebook where I wrote down some of my observations, made sketches. Then, after demobilization, relying on some records, I wrote several stories about my ...

In 1888, Russia received the “bait” of the first French loan. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia in 1882 - 1895 Nikolai Karlovich Girs was personally committed to the line of preserving the imperial union ...

Probably the most famous catastrophe at sea for many is considered the death of the British ocean liner Titanic, which sank in the icy waters of the Atlantic in April 1912. About this tragedy was ...

The conscript soldier doesn’t have much joy, so as not to cherish them. The main whales, on which soldier's joy rests, can be called a dream, letters from relatives and "fighting friends", delicious ...

The world entered the 20 century with great hopes, indeed the progress of science and technology promised a lot. People believed that enlightenment and science would give them a peaceful age, where there would not be protracted and bloody ...

This is a true story about a unique tank battle that took place in the Leningrad Region under the Gatchina 20 August 1941. The story of the heroic defenders of Leningrad. In July, 1941, on the banks ...

From the history of wars it is known that the battles of the First World War, which took place on the Western Front, were conducted, as a rule, until the warring parties were completely exhausted. In the morning, full-blooded divisions, corps and ...

It is difficult to understand the causes of the First World War and the subsequent World War II, if there are no answers to a number of important questions. Was a big pan-European war going? If prepared, then by whom, and ...

... The only Russian general was captured on the glorious and bloody day of Borodin. And he did not surrender, but was taken against his will - because of an absurd accident. French bayonet blow ...

Regarding the question posed in the title, there are two opposing points of view: the supporters of the first believe that the Russian worker eked out a miserable existence, while the supporters of the second ...

Many probably remember the end of the Soviet Union - the attempt to sign a new Union treaty, the coup, the collapse of the Union and its departure from the historical arena. In the meantime, when the USSR broke the point ...

Today's date is a symbol of the victory of the Indian people over the British colonialists. 15 August 1947 was the national flag of India hoisted over Red Fort in Delhi. The history of the struggle of India for ...

After a successful march on Russia in May 1571, the Crimean Tatars continued to put pressure on Moscow. In mid-June, the Crimean ambassadors arrived at Ivan the Terrible and threatening him with a new invasion, ...