At the beginning of April 1945, the Red Army was on the threshold of Berlin. In a straight line to the capital of Germany remained sixty kilometers. But everyone - from simple soldiers to commanders - understood that to pass this ...

By the summer of 1942, German troops reached the foothills of the Main Caucasian ridge. Rangers of the "Edelweiss" division burst through the passes into the Transcaucasus. Here, in the mountains, among glaciers, rocks and ...

Journey to the Korengal Valley with Marco di Lauro ...

From the first days of the war, the capital of the USSR began to prepare for defense. The institutions and factories, embassies and ministries were evacuated. To Moscow from Leningrad to organize defense and stop ...

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 ...

In the 1941-42, the main anti-tank weapon of the Soviet army was the 45-millimeter cannon of the 1937 model of the year, called the forty-five soldiers. Later in the army there were famous "Katyushas" ....

The winged infantry, a new branch of the USSR Air Force, was born in 1930 year. The first parachute unit in the history of the world was created in the Leningrad Military District and consisted of 480 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the war, only fighter pilots could compare with tankmen in popularity. The beautiful form, the formidable fighting machine tank, with its speed, power and impenetrable armor, created an aura ...

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 ...

There is a place in the mountains of northern Iraq where the 3 tanks are still standing there. These tanks fought on the side of Saddam. They were hit by Kurds during the first Iraqi war. At that time, the main forces ...

For the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Channel One begins showing the documentary cycle "The Great War", which will tell about the most significant events and battles ....