The SVR handed over to the well-known Russian military historian Theodor Gladkov the declassified archives of the legendary Soviet agent Willy Lehmann. Back in March 1941, he said that in Abwehr in urgent ...
The film is about the famous Soviet intelligence officer, who in 1938 year, being a resident in Spain, has disappeared. Only in 1953, after Stalin’s death, did the world learn that 15 had lived in the United States for years who ...
From May 31 to June 1, in the training center of the internal troops “Volovshchina” near Minsk, they were tested for the right to wear the Krapovogo beret, which, according to the tradition established since Soviet times ...
In the fall of 1949, an unusual helicopter took off in Moscow. A unique technical solution, which all leading aircraft designers of the world unsuccessfully fought during the first half of the twentieth century, ...
The history of the rotor-wing machine creation united the fates of two great designers Alexei Cheremukhin and Igor Sikorsky. In August, 1932, the pilot and designer Alexey Cheremukhin, exceeded the global ...
The fierce competition to get an order from the Wehrmacht to supply the army with a heavy army motorcycle between leading German companies led to the emergence of advanced models of motorcycles and ...
The film tells about academician M.K. Yangele, who created outstanding examples of military missile technology. In the Soviet Union, he was one of the most secret people in the country, the founder of a unique school ...
In the early morning of June 22, 1941, the German invasion of the USSR began. On the same day, Italy declared war on the USSR (Italian troops began hostilities on July 20, 1941) and Romania, on June 23 - Slovakia, ...
In 2013, the first planes of the installation batch are scheduled to be delivered to the Lipetsk Center for Combat Use and Retraining of the flight personnel of the Russian Air Force, and in 2015 it is planned to begin deliveries ...
In the mid-seventies, the United States Central Intelligence Agency began to receive reports that the Russians had begun to develop an anti-ship winged super-rocket ....
This film shows new weapons developed by the Israeli military concern "RAFAEL" for more effective penetration into enemy fortified points. And also for destruction ...
In the winter of 1928, a reading of the play by M.A. Bulgakov's "Running". K.S. Stanislavsky accepted the play very well, it was included in the repertoire, and the roles began to be assigned. But...
Having fought almost 800 kilometers, in the summer of 1944, the units of the Red Army began in Poland on the banks of the Vistula. They managed to capture and hold on the west bank of the river Pulavsky, Magnushevsky and ...
The parade dedicated to the 65 anniversary of the Victory this year was not only distinguished by the presence of foreign military delegations on Red Square. The continuity of generations was emphasized, for example, by the fact that almost ...
On June 24, 1945, the first parade dedicated to the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War took place in Moscow on Red Square. The combined regiments of the fronts were withdrawn to the Victory Parade, the combined ...
October 16 1944, the Red Army crossed the USSR border and set foot on German territory. Along the East Prussia, soldiers and officers of the engineering troops, shoulder to shoulder with the infantry and tankmen ...
At the beginning of April 1945, the Red Army was on the threshold of Berlin. In a straight line to the capital of Germany remained sixty kilometers. But everyone - from simple soldiers to commanders - understood that to pass this ...
By the summer of 1942, German troops reached the foothills of the Main Caucasian ridge. Rangers of the "Edelweiss" division burst through the passes into the Transcaucasus. Here, in the mountains, among glaciers, rocks and ...