12 April, the country and the whole world celebrate the 50 anniversary of manned space flight. This is the greatest event of the 20 century! But not everyone knows at least half the success of this event can be safely ...

In an interview with IA REGNUM, director of the Institute of Historical Research at Lviv University, guest professor at the Central European University in Budapest, senator and head of the history department ...

18 August 1941, the Hitlerites, having thrown tanks and motorized troops into a breakthrough in order to suddenly seize the Dnieper hydroelectric power station and the dam, according to which they calculated to enter the city, broke through the defenses to the west ...

According to the plan of "Barbarossa" the capture of Leningrad was one of the main goals of the German command. The Baltic was supposed to create a German fleet. At the same time, the Soviet fleet in the Baltic States did not ...

The Northern Convoys are one of the episodes of the dead World War II that are well known in our country. In 1971, the book “The rout of the PQ-17 convoy” by the English historian David was translated into Russian ...

Fifty-five years ago, in October 29 1955 in 01 hour 30 minutes 48,5 seconds in Sevastopol Bay there was a strong explosion under the bow of the Black Sea Fleet's flagship battleship ...

Today's Russia in the Caucasus desperately needs modern Ermolovs and Skobelevs, but the problem is not even that they do not exist, but that under the modern system they simply cannot appear ...

And indeed, it’s not coincidental, probably, that it coincided that this speech by Vladimir Putin took place just on the eve of January 12, the birthday of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the great designer ...

After the defeat of the Italian and German divisions in Tunisia by US and British troops in January 1943, the leaders of these countries decided to raise the morale of the personnel ...

September 28 The 1913 of the year was laid down at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. 28 September 1913 was credited to the lists of ships of the Baltic Fleet. 2 June 1913 year launched. 25 July 1915 of the year ...

At 5:50 am on May 20, 1941, Crete shuddered from the explosions of aerial bombs, which became a harbinger of the outbreak of Operation Mercury - the largest airborne operation of the Germans in World War II ...

We are already accustomed to the fact that the future and the distant past, for example, the era of Ancient Egypt or pre-Columbian America, are full of secrets. Current and recent events seem almost obvious. However, something ...

A lot has been written about the war that started 71 a year ago, at the end of November 1939, over the past 10-15 years. The battles were preceded by a complex alignment of political forces in Europe, forcing Stalin to "move" ...

When today, under the pretext of a reassessment of values, to please the new owners, patrons, sponsors, curators, it is easy and defiantly spitting and destroying what was considered holy yesterday ...

28 April 1943 was initiated by the Lviv Governor Vladimir Kubiyovich and the Governor of Galicia, Otto Vechter, and the formation of the division of the Waffen SS “Galicia” began. Now it is called “Galicia”, ...

In December, 1237 - January 1238 of the year, Batu's troops invaded the borders of the Ryazan principality, after the 5-day assault took Ryazan and moved to Vladimir-Suzdal Russia. Fragmentation of the Russians ...

We often hear that the loss ratio of the USSR and Germany with the allies in World War II was 1: 5, 1: 10, or even 1: 14. Then, of course, the conclusion is made about "laying down ...

For the winter campaign of 1942-1943 by the Supreme Command in addition to the planned operation to defeat the fascist group that had broken through to the Volga and the foothills of the Caucasus, it was planned to ...

The story of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Makar Andreevich Babikov, about the military operations of the Pacific Fleet Special Forces detachment, about the Leonovka scouts, who captured the four berths in broad daylight ...

In the first half of April, 1929, the Soviet-Afghan border, near the city of Termez, which is located in Tajikistan, crossed the riders, the number of 2000 people. All the fighters of this ...

6 January 1813 of the year (25 December 1812 of the old style), the emperor of the Russian Empire, Alexander I, issued the Imperial manifesto on the "expulsion of the adversary." In December, 1812, the pitiful remnants of the "Great ...

By the end of 1915, the situation on the Caucasian front was stable, the Russians won the war in several battles, stood on foreign territory in 70 km. from Erzerum. But the Turks regained their ...

The Jewish soldiers of Hitler: the untold story of Nazi racial laws and people of Jewish descent in the German army. Brian Mark Rigg's book (Israeli citizen), claiming to ...

2 January 2011 was 131, the year since the birth of the outstanding gunsmith Vasily Alekseevich Degtyarev (1880-1949). He commissioned our army a number of successful samples ...