The history of our civilization is dotted with bloody wars and tragedies. People do not know how to live in the world on one small planet, lost in the cold space. War is increasingly becoming a tool ...

Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub - the renowned ace pilot of World War II, the most productive fighter pilot in Allied aviation (64 personal victories). Three times the hero of the Soviet Union. Participated in...

How many heroic deeds committed by our ancestors during the Great Patriotic War. Soviet women and even very young girls took part in the fight against the enemy on a par with men. Behind...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first Soviet nuclear submarine "Leninsky Komsomol" experienced a tremendous triumph, as well as a great tragedy, during its combat service. Moreover, this tragedy did not become widespread ...

The history of the Great Patriotic War keeps many secrets, one of which today considers the destruction of the Belarusian village of Khatyn. Modern youth is not interested in the past of their own country, not ...

For three years, Belarus was under the yoke of the enemy. The occupants looted the territory of the republic: cities were ravaged, more than a million buildings in the countryside were burned, 7 thousand were turned into ruins ....

In the village of Satino - Russkoye there is a cross on the grave of a fighter who died at the hands of Chechen thugs. The inscription on the cross is engraved: “Here lies the Russian soldier Yevgeny Rodionov, who defended the Fatherland and ...