On January 30, 1945, the S-13 submarine, commanded by Alexander Marinesko, sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustlov. According to various sources, then from 4 to 8 thousand people died. Before...

It is now known for certain that during the Second World War, the Anglo-American aircraft deliberately bombed the peaceful German cities. Statistics of the consequences of "air war" leads the following ...

The cause of the catastrophe at Baikonur was determined by one of its eyewitnesses. The history of world cosmonautics is a chain of triumphs and tragedies. And if we find out about victories immediately, then failures remain for decades ...

The war ended. Everyone understood this - both the generals of the Wehrmacht and their opponents. Only one person - Adolf Hitler - against all odds continued to hope for the strength of the German spirit, for the “miracle weapon”, and ...

Andrei Nikolayevich was born on October 29 on 1888 in a large family in the village of Pustomazovo, located on the territory of the modern Kalinin Oblast. His mother, Anna Vasilievna, was ...

The whole biography of Anton Ivanovich Denikin is a track record of a courageous and talented commander. Denikin was born 4 (16) December 1872 of the year in the village of Shpetal Dolny, in the suburb of Wloclawek, ...

Sound waves and their use during hostilities have long attracted the attention of specialists. Even before the start of World War II, artillery battery serif systems were developed ...

From the very beginning of the 30 of the last century, the Japanese authorities hatched hostile plans for the Mongolian People’s Republic (MPR). In 1933-year, General Araki, who is the war minister of Japan, ...

Every nation that took part in the Second World War has its own start date. Residents of our country will remember 22 June 1941, the French - 1940-th year, the Poles - September 1939-th. The Chinese have the same ...

VG Fedorov, an outstanding Russian gunsmith designer, weapon specialist and weapon historian, rightly entered the history of Russian small arms as the “father of automatic weapons”. He was the author ...

Radioactive elements of natural origin are common in nature, they surround us, are in our organisms. Most of them were formed millions of years ago. What they...

The story about the tank PT-76 would be incomplete without mentioning two floating combat vehicles, although not formally related to it constructively, but, nevertheless, continued this trend in the domestic ...

The multipurpose aviation and space system (MAKS) is a two-stage complex consisting of an aircraft carrier (An-225 "Mriya" - more precisely, based on the An-225, the development of a new ...

This year was the anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, the main battle of the war, which we used to call Patriotic. She devoted a lot of educational programs, films and books, among which ...

Today, very few people from the 20 generation, both young and old, will be able to say something intelligible about the legendary Soviet hero, Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev. His name is on hearing, mostly ...

For many centuries, relations between Russia and Poland have been tense, and there are many reasons for this. One of the most important reasons for mutual discontent has always been in line with the territorial claims of each ...

14 August 2012, in Kiev, was a presentation of a series called “500 seconds of truth about Ukraine,” in which the authors tried to debunk the current official interpretation ...

Surprisingly, it was not the Soviet party leadership that officially announced the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, but ... the clergyman, none other than the Patriarchal locum tenens of the Russian ...

Mysterious at first glance discrepancies are connected with Rokossovsky's birthplace. In Soviet historiography, the place of Rokossovsky's birth is the city of Velikie Luki and the source of this information ...

On the southern borders of the large Russian Empire, it has been restless since Central Asia became part of the Russian state. And this was due to the fact that the territories inhabited by wild ...

In the chaotic kaleidoscope of events in Russia that followed the February Revolution, the mutiny of General L. G. Kornilov stands out. Historians still break spears: what assessment is legitimate to those ...

The K-429 submarine was built in the city of Gorky according to the 670 A Scat project. There were 11 submarines of this type. Its length was 104 meters, width almost 10 meters, height - from five ...

More than half a century ago, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States (CIA) began sending high-altitude U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft into the USSR airspace, which were specially equipped ...

In the second half of the XIXth century, Vietnam became a colony of France. The growth of national identity after the First World War led to the creation of the Vietnam Independence League or the ...

The experience of fighting in Vietnam showed that the use of fighter planes with limited maneuverability F-4 "Phantom", armed only with the Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles, proved to be untenable. Even...

In 1970, a presidential election was held in Chile, in which a certain Alvador Allende, a candidate from the Popular Unity bloc, organized by a number of Chilean political parties won ...

Even before the start of World War II, new design bureaus were quickly created in the USSR in 1939, which were given the task of developing projects for promising aircraft that were ...

Attack aircraft of the construction of S. V. Ilyushin became an indispensable attribute of the Great Patriotic War, making a huge contribution to the victory. At the same time the Il-2 attack aircraft is officially the most widespread ...

With a deafening crash, the Iron Curtain collapsed, and a storm of disclosures of Soviet myths rose in the media of independent Russia. The most popular was the theme of the Great Patriotic ...

During the years of the Great Patriotic War, the Yakovlev Design Bureau worked with extraordinary tension, which could be considered normal for such a difficult time. Enormous efforts were designed and implemented in ...

Colonel Erich von Manstein, who during the Second World War, became famous as the commander of large armored formations, in 1935, proposed to create in the structure of the Wehrmacht ...

Sidor Artemovich Kovpak was born on June 7 of the year 1887 in the Ukrainian village of Kotelva in an ordinary peasant family. He had five brothers and four sisters. Since childhood, he helped his parents about the housework ....