Documentary cinema at all times was distinguished by great efficacy on the viewer. Based on this situation, some forces tried to use the potential of this kind of art to solve ...

The uprising of Spartacus, which began in the city of Kapuya in 74 BC. e., not only greatly influenced the development of Rome as a state, but also left its mark on the whole world history. Rise of Spartacus ...

Russian emperor Pavel I was brutally strangled and beaten with drunken officers in his own bedroom at night (11) 23 in March 1801, in the Mikhailovsky Castle. The life and death of the Russian Hamlet is exactly that ...

1150 years ago in 862, according to the 12th century Old Russian Chronicle of the Tale of Bygone Years, Rurik and his brothers Sineus and Truvor were called to rule in the north of the Russian land. Rurik invited ...

Although the first human flights date back to 1783 the year when the Marquis of Darland rose into the air in a balloon, but only in the 19 century did the process of creating aircraft gain the greatest acceleration ....

The 1996 summer of the year was the first after the second presidential election, which Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin won. One of the many promises of his company was the end of the Chechen war, for which ...

Events from September 21 to October 4 The 1993 of the year is still a hot topic discussed, often controversial. Today, researchers of the October putsch adhere to the most diverse points ...

"The father of multi-engine aviation" Igor Sikorsky is a talented Russian designer who was forced to leave his homeland during the revolution, because he was recognized as a political traitor. The whole life of this ...

In July last year, a retired colonel Leonid Khabarov, a veteran of the Afghan war, was arrested in Yekaterinburg. The accusation against the veteran shook the public. Honored Military ...

The bloody years of World War II claimed millions of innocent lives. The terrible facts of the genocide of the Jewish people became known to the world community already in the post-war years. The atrocities of the Nazis against ...

One of the most prominent historical figures who participated in the political life of Russia at the turn of the 19-20 centuries - Sergei Yulievich Vitte. An amazing man who made a brilliant career and reached ...

In 1923, the state of the USSR appeared, although its creation was officially announced at the end of December 1922. It replaced the Soviet Russia that existed during the years of the revolution, and became a new one ...

In June 2011, the US Navy Command announced its plans for the future of US Navy destroyers. Prospective destroyers of the Zumwalt type were too expensive for ...

Time does not turn back. However, who can say what would have happened if the trouble had happened again, and the enemy had invaded the territory of our state? Can we hope for such a behavior ...

For the first time, women were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by a decree of November 2, 1938. Pilots Valentina Grizodubova, Polina Osipenko and Marina Raskova were awarded for ...

The arms race is not only a time of insane and rapid accumulation of weapons that are deadly for the planet and its testing, it is also the period of the activities of brilliant designers and engineers ....

Virtually every country in the world is studying the phenomenon of UFOs, even those that seem technically backward. But the results of these studies, as a rule, remain under the heading "Perfectly ...

The film was released allegedly in 1943, during the Second World War, filmed by the Office of Special Services of the USA and the Ministry of Communications. This is an openly propaganda, but very delicate copy ...

One of the most powerful images that the United States has won over the hearts and minds of people all over the planet has become the myth of democracy and freedom. The United States has become a model for all, the "beacon of democracy", having received ...

For some unknown reason, the general public knows almost nothing about the armored trains of the Great Patriotic War. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the main types of technology, ...

In Russia, in 1834, engineer Adjutant General Karl Andreevich Schilder (1785 - 1854) built a submarine at the Aleksandrovsk Foundry (now NPO Proletarskiy Zavod) ...

January 1945. Peenemünde is threatened by Soviet troops. Von Braun leaves the rocket center and takes refuge in an alpine ski resort, where in early May his long-awaited rescuers appear - Americans ....

Events with the participation of secret agents are rarely discussed in society, therefore, interest in their amazing life on the part of ordinary people is always high. Information about such people is very significant for sovereigns, ...

Independent Estonia ... Peaceful sky overhead. High quality of life. Leisurely calm life: friendly passers-by, laughing children. Clean, well maintained streets. Monuments to the heroes ... SS, who fought "for ...