Working as a youth policy coordinator for the government of the Rostov Region, I found in the archives the military history of the Azov citizen Krestovnikov Alexander Ivanovich, who served in the 46th Army as the main ...

About his captain Asmolov, a front-line railwayman, political instructor and political leader, his great-granddaughter tells ...

Soviet tank ace Vladimir Petrovich Khazov was introduced to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union for the battles near Olkhovatka in June 1942. In these battles, a tank company of Khazov was hit and burned 31 tanks ...

What relics of the war are kept in the families of Lipetsk residents? What was done 75 years ago? The action "Front Relic" ...

September 16, 1943 Novorossiysk was liberated from the Germans. For young captain-lieutenant Vasily Botylev, this victory cost the lives of many friends and his own blood ...

By what criteria is the status “City of Military Glory” assigned? Why did the choice fall on certain settlements? ...

One family, spouses Elena Zeveleva and Alexander Sapsay. Two fathers, Zevelev and Sapsai, and two paths through the war ...

The assault on Novorossiysk became a triumph of the Little Earth saga of Vasily Botylev. By this time, Botylev was perceived by the Marines as the heir to Major Kunikov ...

Six stars and three heroes. The story of one shot ...

Vasily Botylev in the post-war Novorossiysk was a legend. The commander, who several times caused fire on himself, is one of the first persons in the low-land landing ...

In memory of the Greek anti-fascist politician Manolis Glezos ...

The family that went through the war. Private story ...

Thousands of great names of those who defended the flaming Lesser Earth are now forgotten. Sometimes it is especially a shame for those who, by their nature, should not have been in this hell. One of them was Maria Pedenko ...

To this day, attempts are being made to revise the assessment of the historical battle, to present it not as an example of military art, but almost as a failure ....

Comprehensive measures undertaken in 1942 were extremely effective. Fighting with the invasion of the Nazi horde, the USSR showed low rates of infectious diseases ...

In the 97th year of his life, the great Soviet and Russian front-line writer Yuri Bondarev died. People’s writer and patriot, not afraid to condemn Gorbachev’s “disaster” ...

Summer of 1942. Soviet troops leave Krasnodar. The memories of those who failed to evacuate. The events of those war years were forever engraved in their memory ...

The first months of the war. Soviet troops are defeated, over and over again falling into the "boilers" organized by the Germans ...

June 22, 1941 the war began. The words of the younger brother Vasily, who served in the 92nd border regiment of the NKVD, became clear. In a letter from his brother, which came a week before the start ...

Little-known fragments of the outbreak of war in Moldova. Heroes and alarmists. Two Romanian shells, which served as an impetus for the study ...

Grandmother Maroussia did not like to remember the war. Almost two years of occupation with humiliation, hunger and an eternal fear of death or being sent to work in Germany ... I don’t know how it turned out that I ...

To the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. An interesting fact about the name of one woman ...

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Lebedev was introduced to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union for success in the battles during Operation Uranus. The brave tanker was particularly distinguished in the battles against the 1st Romanian tank ...

The image of the people's avenger, on whose account more than forty military operations, including the destruction of twelve echelons, the defeat of the Peskovsky and Sporovsky garrisons ...