She was so desperate that she decided to commit suicide on the day of her 15 anniversary, but before that she wrote the last letter to her father. Reading hard, but very worth it ...
In the battles with the Nazi invaders, Soviet soldiers showed examples of military skill. And now, 66 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, one of the most important sections ...
The beginning of the 1720 campaign was characterized by the fact that Sweden almost completely depleted its military potential and became dependent on British diplomacy. London tried to create a wide ...
The romance of the scout profession, presented to the average person in numerous movies, books and songs, is based on stories about illegal residents. It is their work that carries that risk and ...
Probably, none of my recent articles made as much noise as the "Tatar root of the Cossack family." But the point put early. The steppe Turkic origins of the Ukrainian ethnos require further ...
After it became clear that negotiations on the Aland Islands would not be completed by the world and information appeared on the agreements of the former allies with Sweden, St. Petersburg decided to resume the military ...
For its long history, Russia has presented the world with many brilliant people. A worthy place among them is occupied by self-taught inventor Ivan Petrovich Kulibin. His name has long become a household name, so ...
Yugoslavia, being one of the largest European countries, has always been considered a common home for Croats, Serbs and Muslims. But in the 90-ies, she was plunged into a sharp ethnic conflict. 1992 ...
Everyone knows that the USSR went to death for a long time. The reasons can be called a lot - the authoritarian state, monocentric decision-making, the inability of the state to meet the needs of the population, ...
The tragedy in Uglich and today causes heated debates among historians. There are several versions of developments in this obscure period in the life of the Russian state. The last son of Ivan Vasilyevich ...
Penalty battalions of the fronts and individual penal companies began to be created in pursuance of the order of the USSR People's Commissar of Defense No. 227 from July 28 1942 of the year, which became known as the order of Stalin ...
The final stage of the Northern War (1715-1721) was notable for the confusion of political, diplomatic and military events. Peter I was still thinking about how to deliver a decisive blow to the very heart ...
Kandahar is a gloomy city / "Boers" rumble day and night. The words of the soldier's song aptly convey the atmosphere that reigned in the greenery throughout the years of the Afghan war. It was the domain of local "spirits" ...
By the beginning of 1987, the situation on the Iran-Iraq front was reminiscent of previous years. The Iranian command was preparing for a new decisive offensive on the southern front. Iraqis are betting on ...
Anatomy of an invasion After the collapse of the "socialist community" and the peaceful change of the social order in Eastern European countries, and then the collapse of the Soviet Union, a reassessment is taking place ...
17 April is one of the “black” days of Russian history, whose events were interpreted for political and ideological purposes, both in the West and in the Soviet Union. The tragedy on the Lena River on ...
In the summer of 1982, a new phase began in the Iran-Iraq war. The Iranian military-political leadership decides to transfer the war to Iraqi territory. Tehran planned to inflict a decisive ...
President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev “in order to attract public attention to Russian history and the role of Russia in the global historical process” announced 2012 is the Year of Russian history ....
By the beginning of the war, Baghdad in the border zone with the Islamic Republic had concentrated about 140 thousand people, 1,3 thousand tanks (mainly Soviet T-55, T-62 and T-72), 1,7 thousand guns and mortars, 350 ...
Boyko, Ivan Akimovich, a retired colonel. Born 19 March 1924, in the village Podvorki Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district of Kiev region. Member of the fighting in the 1-th Ukrainian Front 3-th ...
15 April is the birthday of the only front-line cosmonaut Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy. The years of the birth of the future hero relate to the most difficult period in the history of the Russian state, ...
The Iran-Iraq war, which lasted from 1980 of the year to 1988, was one of the most difficult and bloody conflicts in modern human history. The relationship between Tehran and Baghdad was ...
He was a doctor at Mauthausen camp. He was called the Doctor Death. He conducted inhuman experiments on living people, made amputations without anesthesia, made various products from tattooed ...
There were many magnificent and strategic descriptions of the battle of Borodinsky, but the details of private actors are hidden; modest Russians are silent and leave the world to judge their valor. Russians ...