In the Surovikinsky district of the Volgograd region, search engines pulled the T-34 combat vehicle from the river. The tank will be repaired and sent to the museum, and the history of its crew, who defended Stalingrad, will be restored ....

German law enforcement agencies have begun to study new data on the crimes of the Wehrmacht during the Great Patriotic War, committed in the temporarily occupied territories of the Soviet ...

The Day of Military Glory of Russia - the Day of Lifting the Siege of the City of Leningrad (1944 Year) is celebrated in accordance with the Federal Law No. 13-FZ of March 1995 of March “On the Days of Military Glory (Victory Days) ...

Until the beginning of the nineties of the last century, this person in our country and abroad was known as a children's writer, whose books were published in a huge circulation, 21 million 642 thousand ...

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the Great East Asian War, as it was called in Japan, began. On September 2, 1945, it ended with the signing of the Unconditional Act ...

Starting from the Khrushchev's “thaw”, heartbreaking stories about how Stalin's detachments allegedly fell during the Great Patriotic War firmly entered the so-called “Sixties” folklore ...

On the defense of Stalingrad, a new stage in the history of the detachments began in the summer of 1942, when the Germans broke through to the Volga and the Caucasus. 28 July came the famous order number XXUMX People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR ...

Long-range aviation played a decisive role in the war. In this letter, the ace pilot proposed creating a large air force capable of performing combat missions deep behind enemy lines ...

WAR is just five letters in a word, but how much suffering and grief is associated with it. After all, the word war is grief, tears, broken destinies and death. Since ancient times, there has been no constancy in the world, everyone ...

Karbyshev Dmitry Ivanovich - Lieutenant General of Engineering Troops, ancestral Siberian Cossack, Hero of the Soviet Union. Before the start of the Great Patriotic War, he was on the western border in ...

Recently, there have been many speculations on the topic of who created the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle. Many believe that the famous German gunsmith put his hand to the domestic machine gun ...

Many years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, a military-historical conference was held at the Officers' House in Minsk. A tanker veteran who spoke about the role of tank units in ...

I have a neighbor. Crimean partisan. He left for the mountains in 1943, when he was 16 years old. This document will tell about him better than me. From the stories of Grigory Vasilievich: "In 1942 ...

15 July 1944, Hitler received a telegram from Rommel. Here are excerpts from it: “The situation on the front in Normandy is becoming increasingly difficult. Own losses are so great that the combat effectiveness of divisions ...

The Memorial Society demands that the grave of Stalin, as well as all his associates, be removed from Red Square in Moscow. The fact that if it were not for Stalin - on the site of Red Square there would now be ...

They say nature does not tolerate emptiness. But history is also part of nature, and the “vacuum” that has arisen in the annals of the past is filled with either accurate knowledge, or half-truth, or falsification. Previously experienced ...

I have no doubt that a novel will soon be written about Colonel Kvachkov. Quite a lot of things have come together in Kvachkov that the writer no longer needs artistic imagination to ...

War is a common state of humanity. Russian civilization fought its entire history, from birth to the present day. The Russian people are the people the Warrior, turning into a consumer is killing him. Only...

How many have heard such a phrase: "Volyn massacre"? It was an unprecedented crime committed by Bandera's militants against the Polish population of Volyn and other lands ...

Stalin - the inspirer and organizer of the victory in the Great Patriotic War 9 of May 2010, turned 65 years since the Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War - undoubtedly the very ...

The year of birth of the engineering troops in Russia is considered to be 1701. This year, Peter I, as part of the military reform he was carrying out, signed a decree on the creation of the first engineering school. In eleven ...

Historians have an unspoken rule that, before giving a reliable estimate, certain events must pass at least 15-20 years. However, in the case of the First Chechen War, everything is ...

357 years ago, 8 (in a new 18 style) of January 1654, on the main square of ancient Pereyaslav, "gathered a great multitude of all kinds of bureaucrats of people who committed a long circle." To this collection hetman ...

If you read some foreign historical works dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, you can find in them accusations against the USSR, in the period 1939-1945. In these writings voiced ...