At the very peak of his career, General Turapin, the commander of the Separate Operational Assignment Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (formerly named after Dzerzhinsky), filed a resignation report. He passed the test of Chechnya with honor, and ...

Night, July, 1962, in the waters of the Atlantic, cutting the waves, Soviet dry-cargo ships are moving along only one well-known course that they transport? Why are they here, so far away from their native shores? ...

The manifestations of the people's war against Napoleon's Great Army can be seen from the very beginning of the 1812 campaign. Already on the territory of Lithuania and Belarus, the peasants attacked the invaders. These...

Recently in Russia there is a growing interest in the history of the White Movement, the history of Russian emigration, and, in general, the history of the "other" Russia. This is not surprising, especially if ...

After the war, Stalin was facing a new war - against corruption. So it’s not just because of fear of losing power, as some historians suggest, that Stalin began to “tighten the screws” after the Great ...

The fact that Nazi Germany has a large number of different military equipment projects, unrealized and fantastic, has long been the occasion for various conjectures. It is the development of the Germans in ...

On the night of 12 on July 1942, the commander of the South-Western Front, Marshal Semyon Konstantinovich Tymoshenko, received a telegram from the Supreme Command Headquarters (UGRC). The South-Western Front was ...

The expression “While the foot of an infantryman has not stepped onto the ground during the battle, this territory is not considered conquered or liberated from the enemy”. And the most accurate and winged name for the infantry, this ...

I apologize for the next educational program. But - since the anniversary year is - the closer to the date of the Borodino battle, the more we are awaited by sensational historical revelations, the essence of which, as usual, ...

XV century. The centuries-old trade in Europe and the East was interrupted by the powerful Ottoman Empire. Europeans are beginning to search for the sea route to the country of fabulous wealth - semi-mythical India. In 1499, in ...

On the night of July 12-13, 1917, the German army during the First World War for the first time used the poisonous gas mustard (a liquid poisonous substance of skin blistering action). Germans as ...

In the autumn of 1939, when the German army crushed and occupied Panama Poland for several weeks, turning it into a governor-general, a former resident fell into the hands of Soviet intelligence ...

In these January days of 1943, the Red Army finished off the remnants of the Nazi troops surrounded at Stalingrad. It was on the eve of the battle for Stalingrad that the famous order No. 227 from 28 was issued on July 1942 ...

The names of many talented domestic gunsmith designers until recently were covered in mystery. Information on the activities of these people has never gone beyond state enterprises, ...

The Swedish king Gustav I Vaza, who gained power in 1523, at the end of 1540 — the beginning of 1550. headed for war with the Russian state. He tried to organize an anti-Russian coalition within Sweden, ...

The Soviet-Polish 1919 - 1920 war is a black spot on the history of Russian-Polish relations and one of the most unpleasant and contradictory episodes in the history of Russia of the 20 century, for many decades ...

In the summer of 1941, during the attack by fascist Germany on the USSR, many military experts noticed that the German command practically excluded the widespread use of its ...

In early July, 2012, in the hero-city of Sevastopol, held a series of events dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of the heroic death of the surface ship of the destroyer leader Tashkent. He forever remained in the memory ...

On the morning of June 7, 1942 of the year at 4.00 began artillery preparation before the immediate German offensive. The fact that only 600-mm "One" and ...

Petr Ivanovich Bagration was born on July 10 of the year 1765. He came from an ancient kind of Georgian kings. In 1766, the parents of the future general moved to Kizlyar (Russia), where the boy spent his ...

On the night of June 28 (July 9), 1762, when Tsar Peter III was in Oranienbaum, his wife Catherine secretly arrived in the capital and was proclaimed in the barracks of the Izmailovsky regiment ...

The Great Patriotic War claimed millions of lives. Every resident of our country has experienced the horrors of a fascist attack. Millions of Soviet people fought to the deaths against the fascist invaders and died for ...

During perestroika, many different myths and rumors related to the period of the Great Patriotic War were born. One of them is about penal battalions, that some were recruited there ...

War chariots ... They were used in large numbers in the countries of the Ancient World, in particular, the Ancient East - in Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Rome, Greece. Warriors on such chariots were ...