How many have heard such a phrase: "Volyn massacre"? It was an unprecedented crime committed by Bandera's militants against the Polish population of Volyn and other lands ...

Stalin - the inspirer and organizer of the victory in the Great Patriotic War 9 of May 2010, turned 65 years since the Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War - undoubtedly the very ...

The year of birth of the engineering troops in Russia is considered to be 1701. This year, Peter I, as part of the military reform he was carrying out, signed a decree on the creation of the first engineering school. In eleven ...

Historians have an unspoken rule that, before giving a reliable estimate, certain events must pass at least 15-20 years. However, in the case of the First Chechen War, everything is ...

357 years ago, 8 (in a new 18 style) of January 1654, on the main square of ancient Pereyaslav, "gathered a great multitude of all kinds of bureaucrats of people who committed a long circle." To this collection hetman ...

If you read some foreign historical works dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, you can find in them accusations against the USSR, in the period 1939-1945. In these writings voiced ...

Operation Rhine Doctrines envisaged the release of the battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prince Eugen into the Atlantic Ocean through the Danish Strait. The main objective of the operation was to reach the sea ...

Without exaggeration, it can be argued that not a single topic related to the Second World War causes such fierce disputes in our country as the significance of the Anglo-American supply to the Soviet ...

12 April, the country and the whole world celebrate the 50 anniversary of manned space flight. This is the greatest event of the 20 century! But not everyone knows at least half the success of this event can be safely ...

In an interview with IA REGNUM, director of the Institute of Historical Research at Lviv University, guest professor at the Central European University in Budapest, senator and head of the history department ...

18 August 1941, the Hitlerites, having thrown tanks and motorized troops into a breakthrough in order to suddenly seize the Dnieper hydroelectric power station and the dam, according to which they calculated to enter the city, broke through the defenses to the west ...

According to the plan of "Barbarossa" the capture of Leningrad was one of the main goals of the German command. The Baltic was supposed to create a German fleet. At the same time, the Soviet fleet in the Baltic States did not ...

The Northern Convoys are one of the episodes of the dead World War II that are well known in our country. In 1971, the book “The rout of the PQ-17 convoy” by the English historian David was translated into Russian ...

Fifty-five years ago, in October 29 1955 in 01 hour 30 minutes 48,5 seconds in Sevastopol Bay there was a strong explosion under the bow of the Black Sea Fleet's flagship battleship ...

Today's Russia in the Caucasus desperately needs modern Ermolovs and Skobelevs, but the problem is not even that they do not exist, but that under the modern system they simply cannot appear ...

And indeed, it’s not coincidental, probably, that it coincided that this speech by Vladimir Putin took place just on the eve of January 12, the birthday of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the great designer ...

After the defeat of the Italian and German divisions in Tunisia by US and British troops in January 1943, the leaders of these countries decided to raise the morale of the personnel ...

September 28 The 1913 of the year was laid down at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. 28 September 1913 was credited to the lists of ships of the Baltic Fleet. 2 June 1913 year launched. 25 July 1915 of the year ...

At 5:50 am on May 20, 1941, Crete shuddered from the explosions of aerial bombs, which became a harbinger of the outbreak of Operation Mercury - the largest airborne operation of the Germans in World War II ...

We are already accustomed to the fact that the future and the distant past, for example, the era of Ancient Egypt or pre-Columbian America, are full of secrets. Current and recent events seem almost obvious. However, something ...

A lot has been written about the war that started 71 a year ago, at the end of November 1939, over the past 10-15 years. The battles were preceded by a complex alignment of political forces in Europe, forcing Stalin to "move" ...

When today, under the pretext of a reassessment of values, to please the new owners, patrons, sponsors, curators, it is easy and defiantly spitting and destroying what was considered holy yesterday ...

28 April 1943 was initiated by the Lviv Governor Vladimir Kubiyovich and the Governor of Galicia, Otto Vechter, and the formation of the division of the Waffen SS “Galicia” began. Now it is called “Galicia”, ...

In December, 1237 - January 1238 of the year, Batu's troops invaded the borders of the Ryazan principality, after the 5-day assault took Ryazan and moved to Vladimir-Suzdal Russia. Fragmentation of the Russians ...