In 1941-42, the Soviet army's primary anti-tank weapon was the 45-mm gun, model 1937, nicknamed the "forty-five" by soldiers. Later, the famous Katyusha rocket launchers appeared in the army...

In the winter of 1928, a reading of M.A. Bulgakov's play "The Flight" was held at the Moscow Art Theater. Konstantin Stanislavsky received the play very well, it was added to the repertoire, and the casting process began.

Walter Krupinski (197 downed aircraft), Eric Hartman (352 downed aircraft), Gerhar Barghord (302 downed aircraft, and 301 Soviet) - German assy, ​​everyone had a fight with the Hero of the Soviet Union ...

Attack aircraft are heavily armored aircraft, armed with powerful cannons, machine guns, bombs and rockets...

This episode is dedicated to the history of the development and combat use of the submarine fleet of the USSR and Russia...

The world entered World War II with a wide variety of small arms. The main types of these weapons, according to modern classification, had already been developed by that time...

In the 21st century, in countries with skyscrapers and super-profits from oil, there is a legal system that turns millions of people into the property of their employers - and this is not called slavery, but...

The Winged Infantry, a new branch of the Soviet Air Force, was born back in 1930...

From the first days of the war, the capital of the USSR began preparing for defense. Offices and factories, embassies and ministries were evacuated...

It was spring 1943 of the year. Soviet troops captured a bridgehead on the "Little Earth" in the area of ​​Novorossiysk. In the Caucasus, the Red Army is confidently moving forward, preparing for the breakthrough of the Blue Line, a powerful ...

Today's video lecture explains in detail what uranium is and why it is so important to the world...

The film "We Built Aircraft Carrying Ships", according to one of the authors of the film, Valery Babich, is a story about how Nikolaev and shipbuilding came into being, how this industry developed ...

In June 1944, the Red Army was preparing for the battle for Belarus. At night the troops advanced to the lines of the future offensive. Together with the tanks, cavalry corps marched forward. Despite the fact that in ...

In July 1942, the general was captured. The enemy immediately realized the value of such a figure. The persuasion, promises, and psychological pressure began. Vlasov broke. He made a deal with those who were trying to destroy him...

Nikolai Kiselev was a Red Army commander who escaped from captivity and found himself in occupied territory in 1941.

On March 31, 1904, the battleship Petropavlovsk, the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, exploded and sank in the outer roadstead of Port Arthur...

It seemed like the new development was on the verge of madness...

About the fate of the commander Alexander Gorbatov, one of the most talented commanders of the Great Patriotic War, not much is known. Although it was in honor of his army that the first victory salute sounded in the summer ...

The elegant parade uniform and the formidable combat unit—the tank, with its speed, power, and invulnerable armor—created an image of courage and invincibility. But the outbreak of war meant...

It was they, ordinary infantrymen and scouts, sappers and gunners, cavalrymen and tankmen, marines and North Seamen, mountain arrows and airborne troops, fighter and assault pilots ...

An MGIMO professor stated that he is irritated by ill-considered decisions...

This luxurious and once considered safe city in the UAE is now regularly attacked by Iranian drones and missiles...

Much of what was filmed then is impossible to even imagine today in the SVO zone...

Most of the sailors from the mutinous crew of the battleship Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky were sentenced to arrest, while some were acquitted.