16 April 2012 The European Court of Human Rights will deliver the final verdict on the so-called Katyn case. One of the Polish radio stations referring to the plaintiffs lawyer Mr ...

In 1710, Russia not only successfully launched attacks on the Baltic front (see the article - The Baltic campaign 1709-1710), but also attacked the Karelian Isthmus. Russian command ...

Alexander of Macedon (356-323 BC) received an excellent education for his era - from 13 years Aristotle himself was engaged in his education. Alexander was fond of reading the heroic poems of Homer, ...

Sergey Mironovich Kirov (real name - Kostrikov) was born in the family of a forester in Urzhum, Vyatka province (15) 27 in March 1886. Sergey was brought up by his grandmother, because he lost in early childhood ...

The Third Reich lasted only 12 years, collapsing under the blows of the Allied forces. In this case, the winners got really rich trophies, among which were the real wonders of technology that ...

Somehow, it is not customary for us, the Slavs, to speak about a person just good words, when his working life is not over yet, and the existence on our mortal Earth has not stopped. That is our nature. That ...

At the height of the First World War, in April 1916, a new submarine of the Bars-type, the Wolf, entered the Russian Baltic Fleet. To the submarine commander, senior lieutenant ...

The battle of Poltava became a radical change in the Northern War. The Swedish empire, after the death and capture of the main army, was forced on all fronts to move to a strategic defense. "Poltava ...

The cold war period is a global ideological, geopolitical confrontation between the USSR and the USA. It was during this period that the term “agent-mole” appeared in the vocabulary of foreign special services. And it is not ...

One of the little-known pages of military history is the planned landing of Soviet troops on the island of Hokkaido. What led to the cancellation of this already begun operation? The US administration has begun to ...

Relying on the colossal combat experience gained during the Great Patriotic War, at its final stage, the Red Army Intelligence Directorate began to improve service ...

25 June in 11 in the morning two boats set off from the opposite banks of the Neman. They agreed on a special raft. Napoleon told Alexander: “What are we fighting for?” It was a question that he himself ...

24 March 1791, a year after the Second Partition of Poland between Russia and Prussia, the national hero of the Poles, Tadeusz Kosciusko, solemnly announced in Krakow the beginning of the anti-Russian liberation ...

The heroic defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War was led by Vice Admiral Vladimir Alekseevich Kornilov. His closest assistant was Vice Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov, who led ...

Fascist Germany, in addition to beginning the Second World War, is also notorious for its concentration camps, as well as for the horrors that took place there. The horror of the Nazi camp ...

After the failure of the storming of Poltava, the situation for the Swedish army was extremely unfortunate. The Ottoman Empire after the demonstration of the forces of the Russian fleet was not going to help the Swedes in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ...

According to Mikhail Sholokhov, the author of the epic novel "Quiet Don", his favorite character in the book was Grigory Melekhov. The image of this hero, his fate and even his appearance were written off from the real ...

March 22 The first concentration camp in Nazi Germany began to operate in Dachau in 1933. It was the first "experimental ground" in which the system of punishments and other forms was worked out ...

Until now, historians have been arguing not only about the number of warriors who participated on both sides in the April 5 1242 battle, but also about the place of this battle. It’s not at all the fact that the Ice Slaughter happened, how about ...

During the winter of 1708-1709, the Russian and Swedish armies avoided a general engagement. The Russian command tried to wear down the enemy with a "small war" - destroying individual detachments, not giving ...

The beginning of the specialized academic training of shipbuilders in Russia is 7 August 1862. Then a special order was issued by the Marine Ministry. Thus, in Russia it was ...

I clearly remember the day when I first read Bulgakov's “White Guard”. It was 1983 year. Winter. Probably January or February. I was given a book for several days. By a lot of crap. In the Andropov USSR ...

20 — 21 March 1814 was between the army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Allied main army under the command of Austrian field marshal Karl Schwarzenberg at Arsi-sur-Oba. It was...

The Russian philosopher Konstantin Pobedonostsev, seeing in a 1885 year at the exhibition in St. Petersburg, a painting by I. Repin "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan 16 in November 1581 of the year", which later became known ...