Zeravshan campaign 1868 g (From the history of the conquest of Turkestan)
After the unsuccessful Crimean War 1853-1856. The Russian government was forced to temporarily change the vector of its foreign policy from Western (Europe) and South-Western (Balkans) to Eastern and ...
Mr Serdyukov - who is he?
The current Minister of Defense is of course an ambiguous figure, one can even say that during his leadership A.E. Serdyukov became an odious figure for his department and the country as a whole. For what ...
Another forgotten feat
There was a kind of symbolic act, which drew a line under the First World War, - the Federal Republic of Germany transferred the last tranche to 70 million dollars in repayment of reparations, set by Versailles ...
Torpedo for "I.Stalina"
The tragic fate of the “Joseph Stalin” turbo electric boat that had been blown up and abandoned in a minefield had been silent for forty-eight years. A few publications usually ended with the message: ships ...
Mayan army
Many researchers often wonder: why in Latin America is such a large role of the army, if in recent decades there have not been major military conflicts? In order to sort out ...
From sin to root, why the Russians did not go on a crusade
First, some Russian thugs in KP-I participated and were mentioned by non-Russians. Secondly, let's remember what happened in Russia in 1096 year. 13 April 1093, the Grand Duke Vsevolod died ...
Moscow trams in the battles for Soviet power
This, already relatively late photograph shows, obviously, not the first version of an armored vehicle built by Zamoskvoretsk trams during the battles for power in Moscow during the Revolution ...
Defeat
In the Red Army, photographing against the background of the enemy's bat equipment was not common. Just because of the smaller number of cameras in the hands of the soldiers and the population. Plus the difficulty with developing and ...
Wehrmacht stoned
9 November 1939 of the year Dear parents, brothers and sisters, I serve in Poland, it is difficult here and I ask you to understand me when I will write only every 2-4 of the day, today I write only to ...
From "sea soldiers" to "black death"
This year, the next, already 305, in a row, the anniversary will be celebrated by one of the most famous branches of the troops of the domestic Armed Forces - the marines. The epochs changed, the state changed ...
Henkel He 1079B / I and B / II
The appearance of this car is just fascinating, no wonder it is now often compared with modern American stealth machines. The designers of this aircraft were Siegfried Gunter and Eichner Hochbach. By the way ...
Lost wins - 2. findings
According to the memoirs of Guderian, Middeldorf, Mellenthin, Manstein and Tippelskirch 1) Hitler interfered with us. Hitler was a fool. The German soldier was driving. The German commander was like the Great Frederick, but without ...
Hand-to-hand fight. Soviet history
In the young Soviet Union, hand-to-hand fighting developed in a special way. This direction coincided with the vector of development of the country. In the rejected "legacy of autocracy," national fistfight and schools remained ...
Why didn't the fascists seize Moscow?
In one of the programs V. Pozner claimed that in 1941 Russian roads prevented the Germans from taking Moscow. Of course, Posner is not the first to try to belittle the heroism of the Soviet ...
War, which could not be
It's no secret that the weapons of the Second World War were forged by joint efforts. The Soviet Union and Germany helped each other arm, and the industrialization of the USSR, necessary for a large ...
Height conqueror
MAY 25 1889 was born in the family of Ivan Alekseevich Sikorsky, a professor of psychology at Kiev University, who was born the fifth child - a son, who was named Igor. The Sikorsky family was not just known in ...
Without any slogans on certain death
A new story about the feat of "The Immortal Garrison" At the end of last September, on NTV, during prime time (on 19.30), more than a one-hour documentary and publicism was shown ...
Shubu for service
Today, soldiers and officers who have manifested themselves in the military service are usually celebrated with state awards - titles, orders, medals, and a little less often - nominal weapons. And what encouraged the warriors in Russia ...
For what Stalin removed from the post of "Marshal of Victory" Zhukov (documents)
On the pages of our site a frequent topic is the theme of the Great Patriotic War ..... special disputes flare up around the evaluation of the actions of the military leadership of the Soviet army, especially around one of ...
The last fortress of the Russian Empire
She could not resist the onslaught of the enemy, because she didn’t meet modern requirements at all. One of the reasons for Russia's defeat in the First World War was the catastrophically fast surrender in 1915 ...
As a Russian officer beat Napoleon himself
The fate of this man is amazing. Handsome, heartbreaker and mot, but at the same time the bravest officer, a brilliant intelligence officer, the commander of a partisan detachment, and by the end of his life - the most luminous prince and supreme ...
Revising Russian History ('The National Interest', USA)
This year, one of the main themes of the Valdai Club was the reconciliation of views on Russian history of the twentieth century, or rather, on its terrible period between the revolution in 1917 and the death of Stalin in 1953 ...
Death squads, elite Russian volunteer units in 1917 year
Anyone who is interested in the topic of the First World War or the formation of the Russian army often faced with very troubled times of splitting the Russian army of the 1917 period of the year. Especially the so-called ...
Frick - Himmler (Very interesting document)
A report by the Reichsmistr of the Interior, Dr. Frick and the Reichsführer SS, and the head of the German police, Himmler, to the German imperial government on the subversive work of the Soviet Union against ...