About the book by A. I. Denikin "Essays on Russian Troubles" There are stages in the history of countries that can be proud of, there are stages that can be regretted. The events that took place in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, -...

It is necessary that the past does not interfere with the future of Lviv - these are streets named after the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and “Heroes of the UPA”, houses with bas-reliefs of figures, which in 1941 — 1944 years ...

133 a year ago, 28 November Art. style (December 11 style) 1877, the victory of Russian weapons ended the siege of the fortress of Pleven. Fighting for this fortress, which the Turkish troops under the command of the marshal ...

Actually, the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to Afghanistan on December 6 would not have attracted much attention. It seems that such visits "without an announcement" of the first persons of the states whose military contingents ...

"... Here is a fascist poster from the Second World War ... Doesn't resemble anything? .." Instantly resembles documentary photographs of fascist executions. I watched a lot of archival "trophy" German photos and ...

I write down the words of my 90-year-old grandmother Alexandra Samoilenko. We sit in the kitchen in her apartment in Lviv, drink tea and talk about life. We say that a person should keep his ...

It is known that the squadron of Vice-Admiral Z.P. Rozhdestvensky was discovered by the Japanese with the help of a balloon raised from one of the ships of the Japanese squadron. This was one of the main causes of the death of the Russian ...

The name of the Russian traveler and naturalist N.M. Przhevalsky who made an invaluable contribution to the study of the geography of Central Asia is known to every educated person. However, few people know ...

Quietly, the great empire of the USSR was erased and erased from the map. It happened under the tacit agreement of the mass of the lower classes and the rapid repainting of the tops. Probably so always great states collapsed or as ...

7 December will mark 69 years from the day when Japanese troops attacked the American naval base at Pearl Narbor. In connection with this event, several conspiracy theories have appeared ...

69 years ago, 5 December 1941 of the year, the Soviet forces launched a counteroffensive near Moscow. This was the beginning of the first strategic offensive of our army in the Great Patriotic War, its first ...

Peter's coup is one of the decisive moments in the formation of negative myths about Russia. Not because with him and after him, Russia is increasingly turning towards the West. The fact is that before Peter is ...

December 4 we must pay tribute to the soldiers of the Red Army, who were tortured, humiliated, executed, and also deliberately killed by hunger and disease in Polish captivity in 1921 – 1922 ...

In South Korea, there was an important event related to the military history of Russia. During the November visit of President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev to this country, the flag was handed to him in a solemn atmosphere ...

During the First World War, fierce battles were fought between the Russian and German fleets in the Baltic. To the credit of the Russian flag of St. Andrew over the entire three-year period of 1914-1917 to the Kaiser ...

The history of the Second World War is multifaceted, many books, articles, memoirs and memoirs have been written on this topic. But for a long time, under the influence of ideology, these topics were covered mainly from the political, ...

In the 1917 year, taking advantage of the general turmoil, the Senate of Suomi led the "parade of sovereignties" and thereby lit the fuck of the civil war in the Country of thousands of lakes. Despite such an abundance of water, ...

One of the founders of the Russian school of martial arts is considered Vasily Sergeevich Oschepkov. It was this man who took the first steps to popularize judo in Russia, and was also one ...

Congo is considered one of the richest countries on the planet. The population also closes the poverty list. There is even such a wish in the Congo to the enemy: "so that you live in gold" ... We all use mobile ...

On a sunny day of July 3, on July 1941, the city of Minsk, already a week as captured by the fascists, slowly entered the Soviet tank. Single passers-by, already intimidated by the Germans, were hastily huddling close to their homes — by ...

Probably his name is the most famous Russian name in the world: Kalashnikov. Presumably, from 60 to 80 millions of “Kalashnikovs” - no one knows the exact figure - are in circulation ....

In the winter of 1918, he saved the Baltic Fleet. He brought out of the ports of Revel and Helsingfors 236 warships, including 6 battleships, 5 cruisers and 54 destroyer, from under the nose of the rapidly advancing Germans ...

25 March 1984, a sensational message spread around the world - a Soviet nuclear submarine surfaced in the center of the US Navy carrier strike group and ... ... rammed the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. Developments...

The outbreak of the Cold War and the arms race contributed to the rapid development of rocketry in the USSR. If at the beginning of 50, we still continued to release the P-1 rocket, in essence ...