In the book “Honor I Have” by V. Pikul, a Russian officer defined for himself the most important thing in life - to have the honor to serve the Fatherland and to fulfill his duty to the Fatherland to the end. Without exaggeration, you can ...

The Holy Blessed Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy, unlike his great-grandfather Alexander Nevsky, did not enjoy such indisputable authority as his ancestor among historians and artists ....

Since the beginning of the Second World War, when fascist Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the systematic destruction of the Soviet population began. As a rule, to perform tasks of this kind ...

During the First World War, many types of weapons showed and proved their importance. For example, tanks demanded a revision of the positional war doctrine, and submarines became a real ...

For more than a hundred years, military motorists have been carrying out combat missions to transport manpower, ammunition and other military equipment. 29 May 1910, the composition of the Engineers of the Russian Empire was ...

Preparations for large-scale battles between fascist Germany and the Soviet Union were accompanied by a global confrontation on the "invisible front." In many respects from who will be in it ...

The award system of the Soviet Army is represented as of 1988 year. It differs from the previous ones only in that it includes awards that appeared after the 1970 of the year and is somewhat modified ...

Little known to a wide circle of the public, Robert Bartini was not only an outstanding scientist and aircraft designer, but also one of the secret inspirers of the Soviet space program ...

Not only ships and submarines of the Soviet fleet, but also combat aircraft took part in the naval battles of the Great Patriotic War. Soviet naval aviation has made a tangible contribution to ...

12 August marks the anniversary of the death of the nuclear submarine Kursk, which perished in the Barents Sea in 2000. It was one of the newest and most reliable underwater ...

The manned launch of the Soyuz-1 spacecraft, the first of the Soyuz series, took place on April 23, 1967. There was only one cosmonaut on board the three-seater ship - Vladimir ...

On May 6, 1942, it was decided to hold a football match at the Dynamo stadium in besieged Leningrad. Two months after the start of the Great Patriotic War, in August 1941 ...

By the beginning of the XI century, the struggle of Russia against the Polovtsy lasted almost half a century. During this time, the Polovtsy almost did not know the failures. The first truly serious defeat was caused by the Polovtsi 3 April 1103 ...

(According to the Military Historical Report on the military operations of the DCBF Air Force in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945, part three, 1946 year) The first year of the war (22.06.1941 - 21.06.1942): ...

Few people know that there were not one or two raids on Berlin. One of the most difficult and remarkable, in terms of organization and execution, of the operations of the first period of the war was the operation of applying ...

Prophetic Oleg, perhaps, is one of the most mysterious rulers of Russia. Sage on the throne, prince-sorcerer, priest of Perun. He successfully continued the Case started by Rurik-Falcon. Oleg united ...

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky - a legendary figure. In his biography, a lot of mysteries, and fate is filled with sharp turns. The biography of the great Soviet commander is corrected, as ...

15 November 1988 of the year took place the launch of the space shuttle "Buran". This event occurred in the Soviet Union. After the launch of the universal space rocket ...

Slutsk uprising is perhaps the most controversial issue in the formation of the Soviet state. There are diametrically opposed historical assessments of the 1920 events of the year on the territory ...

Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin was born in 1913 year in Novonikolayevsk (Novosibirsk) in a family of poor settlers. Already with 14 years he begins his working career. Dreams of heaven brought Alexander into ...

Russian citizens have heard quite a lot about German Nazism, but in reality they know little about the ideology of the Third Reich. In the minds of people a hodgepodge of images of Soviet-Russian films, ...

In 1220, Prince Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich and Princess Theodosia Igorevna had a son, Alexander. The first mentions of the heir to the prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich in Novgorod belong to the 1228 year ....

In the first post-war decade, a bilateral system of international relations was established in the world. This is the time when the global confrontation between the two superpowers, the United States, was launched ...

1 January 1959 was brought to power in Cuba by revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. The victory of the Cuban socialists could not but alarm Washington, American commercial and industrial corporations and ...