At the end of May 1941, the I.F. Kuznetsov reported to the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army about the completion of the formation of anti-tank brigades and the VDK district. At the same time, the district commander noted with bitterness that ...

90 years ago, on January 30, 1922, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) banned the publication of messages about mass cannibalism and corpse-eating in the starving regions of the country. Vlast columnist Yevgeny Zhirnov ...

Russia was the birthplace of not only air, but tank ram. And it was actively used during the Great Patriotic War. The world's first tank ram was committed by Simon Kuzmich Osadchy (1904 - 13 ...

2 February 1920 was signed in the Estonian city of Tartu (Russian Yuriev) by the Tartu Peace Treaty between the RSFSR and Estonia. The agreement was signed after the period of the war (from November 28 1918 of the year 3 ...

By the end of February 1980, the 40 Army had been in Afghanistan for two months and controlled all major cities, nine major airfields, more than 20 provincial centers. Most...

Before the beginning of the First World War, the great powers paid great attention to their Navy, there was the implementation of large-scale naval programs. Therefore, when the war began, the leading countries ...

For almost five centuries, Turkey was the number one enemy of Muscovy and the Russian Empire. From 1568 to 1918, these countries conducted 13 major wars, of which only two were Prut campaign 1710 – 1711 ...

At the time of the entry of Russian troops in Ingria and Estland, there were few Swedish troops in the region. In addition to 2, the thousand garrison defending Narva was a Swedish corps - up to 8 thousand soldiers, under the command ...

There are few historical documents about this interesting person. Only in passing is it mentioned about Mikhail Nikolayevich Lermontov in the writings of his famous namesake and a distant relative. Most...

The study of the materials of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA) made it possible to open another little-known, but very interesting page in the history of the Lopasnensky region (now ...

The Great Northern War began with the invasion of Russia's allies into Swedish possessions. At the beginning of 1700, the 7-strong Saxon army, led by Elector August II, invaded ...

This year the country will celebrate the 67th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. But even so many years after the end of that terrible war, its history is full of blank spots. One of these ...

In the second half of the 17th century, Russia experienced an economic upswing. This became a prerequisite for the creation of a powerful army and navy. But by the beginning of the war with Sweden, Russia did not have a single military ...

On the eve of the war with Russia, Denmark and Saxony, the Swedish empire (the kingdom of Sweden and its possessions were called in the period from 1561 year - after the conquest of Estonia, to 1721 year) was one of the great ...

For thirty years of service I had to serve, fly, study and just be familiar with hundreds of military pilots, but Timur Avtandilovich Apakidze, with all due respect to the others, stood out from all ...

A bayonet is one of the types of close combat, during which the bayonet is used as a piercing-cutting object, and the butt is used as a strike object. The same kind of bayonet battle ...

At the beginning of the XVII century during the Time of Troubles, the Swedes seized the largest cities of Novgorod land - Ivangorod, Yam and Koporye. In the Stolbovsky world 1617, Russia lost the coast of the Gulf of Finland. AT...

The capture of Azov was only the first step on a difficult and long road. The war with the Ottoman Empire continued. The fleet and army of Turkey, the Crimean horde continued to pose a significant threat to the southern ...

At the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, naval fleets began to play an increasing role. It was difficult to maintain the status of a great power, not having ships and ships. Sea and ocean expanses were already cut through ...

In the prewar period, the Soviet leadership paid great attention to strengthening the country's defense capability. This was due to the intensification of the aggressive intentions of fascist Germany, the aggressive military ...

It should be noted that in the sources of the early Middle Ages, you can see two regions that are associated with "Rus", "Dew", "Rus". This is the region of the southern state center of the Slavs - Don, Dnepr and ...

By the standards of human life, many years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. For several decades, the states that were part of the Soviet bloc, developed together, connected ...

I have long wanted to describe my experience of joint service with this category of military personnel. Disputes about whether they are needed or not do not subside. They were called residents of manholes recruited into the army at ...

21 January 1954, the nuclear submarine "Nautilus" ("Nautilus") was launched. It was the first submarine with a nuclear reactor, allowing months to be in the autonomous navigation without ...