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 The combined regiments of the fronts were withdrawn to the Victory Parade, the combined ...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 ...
From the first days of the war, the capital of the USSR began to prepare for defense. The institutions and factories, embassies and ministries were evacuated. To Moscow from Leningrad to organize defense and stop ...
About the fate of the commander Alexander Gorbatov, one of the most talented commanders of the Great Patriotic War, not much is known. Although it was in honor of his army that the first victory salute sounded in the summer ...
In the 1941-42, the main anti-tank weapon of the Soviet army was the 45-millimeter cannon of the 1937 model of the year, called the forty-five soldiers. Later in the army there were famous "Katyushas" ....
The winged infantry, a new branch of the USSR Air Force, was born in 1930 year. The first parachute unit in the history of the world was created in the Leningrad Military District and consisted of 480 ...
It was spring 1943 of the year. Soviet troops captured a bridgehead on the "Little Earth" in the area of Novorossiysk. In the Caucasus, the Red Army is confidently moving forward, preparing for the breakthrough of the Blue Line, a powerful ...