In accordance with the decree of the USSR Defense Committee at the end of 1938, the design of a new heavy tank began at SKB-2 of the Kirov Plant in Leningrad (chief designer J. Kotin) ...

At the beginning of 1917, GAU gave the Obukhov Plant a Hertz outfit. But extremely limited financial capabilities and the resource base of the state hardly even covered the needs of the fleet and ...

Almost forty years have passed since the Soviet military space station Almaz was put into operation in a manned mode. True, it should immediately be noted that what is running in ...

My visit to the Irkutsk Aviation Plant was related to the transfer of the 22 on November 2012 by the Irkut Corporation to the first two Su-30SM multi-role fighters for the Russian Air Force ....

The Aero India 2013 International Aviation and Space Exhibition took place on February 6-10 at Yelahanka Air Force Base (Bangalore, Karnataka, India). In the work of the ninth salon took part over 400 ...

Arkady Georgievich Shipunov was born on November 7, 1927 in the city of Livny in the Oryol province. This is an outstanding Soviet weapons designer, creator of an automatic rifle ...

Psychotronics are commonly referred to as science, which studies the mechanisms of informational connections, the regulation and management of the psyche, physiology and energy of a person. This science is based on the statement that the basis ...

In December, 2012 held the long-awaited signing of a contract for the supply to India of 42 more aircraft kits of Su-30MKI multi-functional super-maneuverable fighters, which will be manufactured ...

The MRK CH (strategic intercontinental missile complex assigned) Topol-M (SS-X-27, Sickle according to NATO classification) with the PC-12М2 rocket (RT-2ПМ2, 15Ж65) is the result of ...

During the war years, fighter aircraft became one of the main arms of the air defense forces and the main means of dealing with enemy aircraft on the distant approaches to cover objects ....

I was lucky to remove the second batch of new Su-35С, which are distilled from the plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Akhtubinsky GLITS. To us they sat down to refuel and lingered on the weather, because on them as on ...

The Soviet forces, introduced to assist in the 1979 year in "friendly" Afghanistan, consisted of one unique, well-prepared special unit consisting solely of ...

Practically from the very beginning of his existence, man wanted to go up to heaven, then go down into the earth, and even reach the center of the planet. However, all these dreams were embodied only in fantastic ...

The workhouse in Moscow was established in 1837 for the purpose of occupying the poor with work and for earning money to people voluntarily applying to it for help. Until 1893, the Workhouse was run by ...

On Saturday, February 2, festive events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad took place in Klimovsk, near Moscow, on the territory of FSUE TsNIITOCHMASH. Employees of the enterprise and ...

Pre-revolutionary Russia in the photos. Life and life of the Siberian peasantry ...

After the tests of the first Soviet anti-aircraft missile system S-25 (in which the B-300 missiles created in OKB-301 were used) were successfully tested, in the middle of the last century ...

Don album of Ivan Vasilyevich Boldyrev ...

The 155 mm howitzer M-109 is shown on the pictures. It happens in Germany. There are no landfills remote from settlements there, even in the former territory of East Germany. Therefore, in order not to disturb ...

7 February Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna was born on 1693. She was the daughter of Tsar Ivan V (brother and co-ruler of Tsar Peter I) from Queen Praskovya Fyodorovna (Saltykova). In 1710, Peter ...

World War I. Expeditionary Corps of the Russian Army in France ...

The world found out about some terrible events that took place on the first nuclear underwater missile carrier K-19 thanks to a film shot in Hollywood under the loud title “K-19 leaving widows” (in the Russian ...

Local residents noticed suspicious passengers in the area of ​​the village of Ali-Yurt, wandering through the forest. Either the bandits came to set up a base closer to the locality (so as not to run far for food ...

We all know and love photos of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. Color shots of Tsarist Russia are a unique property. But there is another classic equal to him in size. This is Maxim Dmitriev. In contrast, he ...