It is known that it was Ivan Fedorovich Aleksandrovsky (artist-photographer and inventor) who created the first Russian torpedo. I.F. Aleksandrovsky was born in 1817 year in the Courland province in the city of Mitava ....
The revolt of the Decembrists became a serious signal to the state that new threats appeared. Soon the Third Division of his own Imperial Majesty's Office was created - in fact the first ...
The incredible design of a submarine with an 305 mm caliber gun designed to destroy enemy surface forces was known as an underwater mortar. This submarine is considered one of the biggest ...
In the period from December 6 1941 to December 16 1941, the operation of the forces of the left wing of the Western Front, which is known as the Tula offensive operation, was carried out. It should be noted that this ...
On December 1, representatives of patriotic parties that did not take part in the elections, and other patriotic social movements put forward Colonel General Leonid Grigorievich Ivashov ...
With normal development, the partisan movement goes through three stages. The first is the stage of defense when the offensive is conducted by the enemy. The second stage is characterized by a dynamic balance of the sides. But only...
The consequences of any large-scale global conflict, even if it occurred about a hundred years ago, have an impact on today's events. And a vivid example of this is the outcome of the First World War ....
It was in Japanese an incredibly exquisite beginning of the war. On December 7, 1941, Japanese aircraft attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor exactly five minutes before the flag was raised. This ...
The history of the Anders Army (or the 2nd Polish Corps) in Russia is not entirely unknown, but is somewhere on the sidelines of the memory of the Great Patriotic War. This formation was created ...
Ancient, like Russia itself, the city-warrior and the city-worker Yelets (the city was first mentioned in the annals in 1146) wrote many glorious pages in its history. He was an important stronghold that ...
Georgy Zhukov - one of the most talented commanders of the XX century. For all the patriots of his homeland, he is a symbol of the resilience and inflexibility of the national spirit, vividly manifested in ...
In the summer of 1918, a twenty-year-old Red Army fighter Konstantin Kukin arrived from Bryansk to the area of the small town of Rechitsa, Gomel Province, together with a group of Bolshevik military personnel. In the territory...
After the defeat of Germany at Stalingrad, Finland began to look for ways out of the war. Back in March, 1943, Germany demanded that the Finns sign a formal commitment to a military alliance with ...
During the Great Patriotic War from July 10 to September 10, the Smolensk battle took place on September 1941, which significantly delayed the German offensive against Moscow. The defense of the city itself ...
For Germany, the situation at the end of 1944 did not look as catastrophic as it did, for example, in the summer of that year. The common ticks threatened by the Allies and the Soviet Union are still ...
"Truly Russian courage" of the Black Sea sailors in the Battle of Sinop. On November 18 (30), 1853, the Battle of Sinop took place, in which the Russian Black Sea Fleet under the command of an admiral ...
After the failure of the October offensive on the capital of the USSR, the German command decided to prepare a new strike by the troops of Army Group Center to encircle and capture Moscow by covering it from the north and ...
The Warsaw Uprising is an anti-fascist military uprising that took place in August-September 1944. In July of this year, the troops of the Soviet Army crossed the Polish border and under its pressure ...
How "famous historian" seeks to prove their case. Doctor of Philology Boris Sokolov made another attempt to “confirm” the numbers of demographic he promoted since 1993 ...
The Red Army counteroffensive near Moscow was the first major offensive in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). By the beginning of December 1941, groups rushing to the capital of the USSR ...
The armored industry of Germany is a developed branch of the military-industrial complex of the country. It is able to provide the production of all types of armored combat vehicles (BBM): tanks, infantry fighting vehicles (BMP), ...
Nowhere and never has the Russian empire fought for as long as in the Caucasus. Although it would seem: what for the Russian generals who were used to winning not only the Turks and Iranians, but also Napoleon, a handful of highlanders? ...
The 115 anniversary of the birth of Georgiy Konstantinovich Zhukov (19 November) has come. And today you can meet such disputes between military and civilian historians - Zhukov: a genius or a villain? ...
An interesting fact is that in the German Empire at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, not only pan-Germanists, representatives of the nobility, the military were supporters of the plan to create "Greater Germany", the leader of the world ...