Gunmaker master - Vasily Petrovich Gryazev
Vasily Petrovich Gryazev is an outstanding Soviet and Russian designer of automatic and small arms, a scientist who for many years held the post of chief designer of the Tula Design ...
Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich - the last Soviet marshal
Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov was born on November 8. 1924 was a Soviet military and political leader. Is the last (by the date of assignment of military rank) Marshal of the Soviet Union, received this ...
Volunteers near Moscow during the Great Patriotic War
Frames of pre-war newsreel show us completely happy and carefree faces of Muscovites. The guys, dressed with barely perceptible metropolitan foppishness, laughing girls with ice cream in their hands, forever ...
This strange and terrible war
TWO RUSSIAN officers - Yuri Lobanov and Vladislav Glebov, like hundreds of other company, platoon, combatants, did not make a career in the Chechen war. Not gained by and large and fame. Uncountable ...
Difficult country children
..August 1968 on the southwestern tip of the Crimean peninsula did not get tired of pleasing the excellent weather. On one of these days, in Sevastopol, a city that was the main base of the Black Sea Fleet and ...
There are no random people here.
Almost everyone has heard about the special forces, but very few people know for sure what the special forces mask is hiding behind them. Blood, sweat, pain, self-overcoming ... But people only see ...
Battle for the sky
After the end of the Second World War, the Armed Forces of the USSR surpassed all the other armies of the world in number, number of tanks, artillery and many other parameters. However, the USSR had one, ...
What do we know about Chelyuskin?
Several decades ago, practically every schoolboy knew about the Chelyuskin expedition and the tragedy that had happened to it. But few even from the adult population could answer precisely ...
Klim Voroshilov: a car for war
In accordance with the decree of the USSR Defense Committee at the end of 1938, the design of a new heavy tank began at SKB-2 of the Kirov Plant in Leningrad (chief designer J. Kotin) ...
"Trilinek" for a hunter in uniform
At the beginning of 1917, GAU gave the Obukhov Plant a Hertz outfit. But extremely limited financial capabilities and the resource base of the state hardly even covered the needs of the fleet and ...
The fate of "Almaz"
Almost forty years have passed since the Soviet military space station Almaz was put into operation in a manned mode. True, it should immediately be noted that what is running in ...
Arkady G. Shipunov - famous Tula gunsmith
Arkady Georgievich Shipunov was born on November 7, 1927 in the city of Livny in the Oryol province. This is an outstanding Soviet weapons designer, creator of an automatic rifle ...
Psychotronic weapons: development and application
Psychotronics are commonly referred to as science, which studies the mechanisms of informational connections, the regulation and management of the psyche, physiology and energy of a person. This science is based on the statement that the basis ...
Intercontinental rocket complex "Topol-M"
The MRK CH (strategic intercontinental missile complex assigned) Topol-M (SS-X-27, Sickle according to NATO classification) with the PC-12М2 rocket (RT-2ПМ2, 15Ж65) is the result of ...
First muslim
The Soviet forces, introduced to assist in the 1979 year in "friendly" Afghanistan, consisted of one unique, well-prepared special unit consisting solely of ...
Underground boats: secret development
Practically from the very beginning of his existence, man wanted to go up to heaven, then go down into the earth, and even reach the center of the planet. However, all these dreams were embodied only in fantastic ...
Rocket Project "Dal": Unknown Facts
After the tests of the first Soviet anti-aircraft missile system S-25 (in which the B-300 missiles created in OKB-301 were used) were successfully tested, in the middle of the last century ...
320 years ago was born the Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna
7 February Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna was born on 1693. She was the daughter of Tsar Ivan V (brother and co-ruler of Tsar Peter I) from Queen Praskovya Fyodorovna (Saltykova). In 1710, Peter ...
Unknown tragedies: fire on K-19
The world found out about some terrible events that took place on the first nuclear underwater missile carrier K-19 thanks to a film shot in Hollywood under the loud title “K-19 leaving widows” (in the Russian ...
Fire bank
Reflecting on the history of sea wars, one can come to a very curious conclusion. Despite the constant development of ship armament and the improvement of naval combat tactics, in the vast ...
Penalty, as it is, and not as show
Once there was an argument about the merits of the “Penalty Battalion” film, which I didn’t like, I read and heard something about such parts and divisions. Therefore, much was implausible there. But it appeared ...
Your prosperity, judges, depends on the prosperity of our state.
On December 5, 1934, the "Law on the Transfer of Judicial Power to the Reich" ("Gesetz zur Überleitung der Rechtspflege auf das Reich") entered into force in Germany, with the German text you can ...
Who brought Hitler to power
80 years ago, Adolf Hitler took over as German chancellor. 30 January 1933, the German President Hindenburg appointed Hitler head of government instead of Kurt von Schleicher. Hitler at this time ...
BI-1- First Soviet
Experimental, the first interceptor fighter with the LRE - liquid-jet (rocket) engine. The designers of the BI aircraft are engineers Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak and Alexey Mikhailovich Isaev —...