Cossacks in the service of the Chinese emperor
Six years ago, a Chinese delegation arrived in Blagoveshchensk bordering on the People's Republic of China. Despite the typical appearance of Azites and the lack of knowledge of the Russian language, the Chinese said that they were direct descendants ...
Insignia ranks of the Russian Army. XIX-XX century
Shoulder straps of the XIX-XX centuries (1854-1917) Officers and generals. The appearance of galloon shoulder straps with insignia of rank on the uniforms of officers and generals of the Russian Army is associated with the introduction on April 29, 1854 ...
Death at the pier
In the base of the Polar 50 years ago there was a tragedy. Up to now, her circumstances were classified. In the Ekaterininskaya harbor of the base of the Polar 11 January, 1962 exploded and sank ...
Allies or allies?
The role of Western supplies during the Great Patriotic War is traditionally hushed up in Russian society. So, in the enchanting book by N. A. Voznesensky "The military economy of the USSR in the period ...
Special assignment
Seventy years ago, in August of 1941, when the battles for Leningrad and Odessa were in full swing, when there were fierce battles for Kiev and Smolensk, and the German aviation made several massed ...
"Heroic Landing" Allies in Normandy
"Many battles claim the role of the main battle of World War II. Someone thinks that this is the battle of Moscow, in which the Nazi troops suffered their first defeat. Others believe that ...
Legendary scout Gevork Vartanyan dies
On the first working day of January, the life path of the legendary scout Gevorg Andreevich Vartanyan was cut short. An experienced intelligence officer, awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, died in one of the chambers ...
Russian Alaska
In childhood and adolescence, many were read in the novels of Amar, Mine-Read and Cooper. It is a pity that in Russia there were no writers who could describe the development of new territories so romantically. There is,...
How to kill the "heart of America"
The history of Latin America has a lot of dark stories, one of the most terrible and bloody is the murder of an entire country, the “heart of America” (Paraguay). This murder has gone down in history as Paraguay ...
White spots of the battle at Prokhorovka station
In the Soviet official historiography, this battle is given not only the loud title of the greatest tank battle that took place during World War II, it is also called one of the largest in all ...
USA. The beginning of the twentieth century
A selection of photographs by various authors. USA. The beginning of the twentieth century ....
The collapse of the USSR: millions of lives in exchange for "freedom and independence"
It is customary to speak of the collapse of the USSR as a bloodless, relatively peaceful event. According to the independence singers throughout the CIS, there is no need to regret a single minute about the collapse of the USSR, since what happened in ...
Project AZORIAN
... Under cover of darkness in the early morning of February 24, 1968, the diesel-electric submarine "K-129", hull number "574", left Krasheninnikov Bay and headed for the Pacific Ocean, to ...
The black myth of the "savagery" of pre-Christian Russia
The pre-Christian history of Russia is often shown in dark color, our ancestors in it are “wild” barbarians, living in animal skins by hunting and fishing in primitive forests and swamps. The only light ...
Death trials
9 On April 1960, an American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft launched from an airfield located in Pakistan near the city of Peshawar. Gaining a height of about 20 kilometers, he crossed ...
The history of the royal title in Russia
October 18 The members of the Synod of 1721 "had a secret reasoning." Having considered the “affairs”, “works” and “leaderships” of his royal majesty in connection with the “eternal world” concluded with Sweden after the North ...
Operation Minnsmith, secrets and riddles
About Operation Minsmith, which took place during World War II, there are few reliable facts. However, in the majority of textbooks, various reference books and encyclopedias that cover the history of espionage, it ...
Brothers
Dimka and Leshka Mineev, stretching their arms at the seams, stopped at attention and were afraid to move. Even blinked cautiously. The test lasted as many 30 endless minutes - all at home, in the kitchen, where ...
North vs South: the myth of the war for the freedom of slaves
The most important event in the history of the United States is the war of the North and the South of 1861 — 1865, the Civil War. In Russia, little is known about this event, for the majority it was “war for the sake of cancellation ...
When their destroy their
In 2004, in June, they celebrated the anniversary of the landing of allied troops on the territory of Western Europe (World War II) - the British and Americans, as well as the opening of the second front. And a little ...
Life for the Tsar
Even a cursory glance at the quality of protection of the top officials of the Russian state in recent history and the level of security of some representatives of the House of Romanovs will lead to the conclusion that ...
Soviet agent ripped off the US "Bindweed" operation
The fight of intelligence and counterintelligence in Russia and the United States does not stop for a minute. About one of the perfectly prepared and implemented operations of listening to the submarine cable communication networks of the Soviet Navy ...
Jews and the creation of the Third Reich
Usually, when people talk about Adolf Hitler's coming to power, they recall his outstanding oratorical gift, charisma, political will and intuition, the difficult economic situation in ...