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 ...
In the 1714 campaign of the year, the Russian Baltic Fleet faced great tasks - the Aland Islands were chosen as the main operational direction. The plans of the Russian command for 1714 (due to ...
Exactly 68 years ago, one of the battles of the Great Patriotic War broke out in our land - the Odessa offensive operation. This battle is not well known in military history. It rarely ...
During the major Soviet offensive in the winter of 1941-1942, the purpose of which was to defeat the German Army Group Center, the troops of the Kalinin Front under the command of General Ivan Konev ...
Russia and Austria in the 18 century more collaborated than feuded. There was a common enemy - the Ottoman Empire. In the Seven Years' War (1756 — 1763) Russia and Austria were allies in the fight against expansionist ...
12 April 1796 was divisional general Napoleon Bonaparte at the battle of Montenotte, scoring his first major battle victory. At that time, the future French emperor was 27 years old. Italian ...
One of the most controversial figures of the late Soviet history remains the figure of Dmitry Yazov. Modern historians even now cannot unequivocally approach the assessment of this famous politician and military ...
8 April of this year, died Hero of the Soviet Union, the most experienced test pilot Peter Maximovich Ostapenko. A memorial service for a well-known and respected person, the Hero of the USSR, an honored pilot must ...