Recently it became known that the Border Guard Service under the FSB will begin creating an ekranoplan production center in Petrozavodsk. The center will be created from scratch at the former Avangard plant, which will ...

On the centenary of the birth of the founder of the DPRK, Kim Il Sung, a solemn military parade was held in Pyongyang. Before his start, the current leader of the country, Kim Jong-un, addressed the people with the words: ...

The life and work of General Kornilov is full of mysteries. A noble officer, an authoritative state figure for a long time was estimated in Soviet history as a man who tried to establish ...

In action movies, we used to see how beautiful ladies in high heels and with a deep cleavage drench the bad guys with packs. In reality, of course, everything is different. They are not dressed in what is profitable ...

150 years ago, on April 15, 1862, a child was born in the Stolypin family, living at that time in Dresden, Germany. The boy was named Peter and soon brought to Russia in the family estate of Srednikovo ....

In the middle of the 20 century, the struggle for hegemony in the bipolar world was quite tough. The Caribbean crisis certainly became the culmination of the confrontation between the two superpowers, however, after it between the USSR and ...

In the Primorsky Territory on the training ground Sergeevka competitions of commanders of artillery batteries are held. The artillery officers have been fighting for the title of the best professional for the past four days ...

The court of history is inexorable, neither powerful leaders nor despicable cowards can escape it. Everyone who, one way or another, is imprinted on the pages of the chronicle of human existence, will receive a fair ...

Anton Ivanovich Denikin - a noble officer who remained loyal to Tsarist Russia, or the leader of an unbridled gang of marauders? Today, there are adherents of both that and this point of view. Rate ...

What the fleet means for Sevastopol is hardly necessary to say. The city, which was built by A.V. Suvorov on the shores of Akhtiar Bay as a base for Russian warships, already, by definition, forever ...

Tamerlane (1336-1405) - the Turk-Mongol conqueror, whose victories, characterized by acts of inhuman cruelty, made him the master of much of Western Asia. Tamerlan or Timur (Timur-Lang, ...

In India, an exhibition of weapons is taking place, where you can see a lot of interesting and original ones. A promising armored personnel carrier from TATA, on the chassis and hull - one to one coincides with one of the South African ...

Genghis Khan (1167-1227) was the founder of the Mongolian nation and the founder of one of the most extensive empires the world has ever seen. Temujin (Temujin) - this is the name of Genghis Khan, given to him by ...

SMERSH military counterintelligence, which was established in the Soviet Union in 1943, is still on many lips. Only after 70 years, the vulture was removed from many operations carried out by counterintelligence ...

American and South Korean marines held joint exercises on disembarkation in Pohang. Despite the fact that South Korea is theoretically in a state of war with North Korea from the very 1953 ...

Salah al-Din Yusuf Ibn Ayub (in short from Arabic “Honor of Faith”), (1138 - 1193), in the European tradition - Saladin - Sultan of Egypt. Saladin's historical identity is a symbol ...

The role of aviation, especially helicopter in the conduct of hostilities in the mountains is difficult to overestimate. Small and maneuverable vehicles, equipped with impressive weapons, affectionately referred to in the army ...

The fate of Western Ukraine was decided in the dramatic conditions of the beginning of the Second World War. In September, 1939, the Red Army troops entered the territory of Western Ukrainian lands in order to ...

Guy Julius Caesar - the greatest commander and statesman of all times and peoples, whose name has become a common noun. Caesar was born on July 12 102 BC. Being a representative of the old ...

The Argun gorge is one of the largest in the Caucasus gorges, formed by the breakthrough of the turbulent waters of Argun. Today it is planned to place a ski resort here, and more recently this ...

One of the heavy pages of the history of the Russian Federation reflects the events of January 1995 of the year on the territory of the Chechen Republic in its capital, Grozny. Plan to storm the capital, which focused ...

Appeared on russianplanes.net a fresh photo session of the Su-4 bomber Su-34, located in the Lipetsk XNUMX-th State Center for the training of aviation personnel and military tests ...

In 247 BC in the family of a talented Carthaginian commander and statesman Hamilcar Barca, a son was born, known to the whole world as Hannibal Barca. Like any educated ...

31 March is the day of death of the Grand Duke of Vladimir, the cunning, cruel and intelligent politician Ivan Kalita. The period of his rule is estimated ambiguously. Some researchers believe this prince great ...