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April 23 of this year may well qualify for the title of "Day that gave a wave of hope." For not every day several ships are laid down at the same time. It is clear that Putin's visit to Severnaya Verf gives such weight to the event, and yes, the hope that everything will not stop after

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The anti-ship complex ensures control of territorial waters and protection of coastal areas at a long distance So, for the transformation of Russia into an economically developed and

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“Let people know what happened in this war. The truth. The way it is … "(One of the few survivors of the 131st Maikop brigade) PREPARATION OF THE YOUNG MAN. Eve of the new year, 1995. Columns of Russian troops crossed the Chechen administrative border, and the forward units occupied

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The Makarov pistol is rightfully called "Kalashnikov" among pistols. This automatic 9mm pistol was designed in 1948 by Nikolai Makarov. Due to the simplicity of its device, the reliability of the proposed design and ease of use, the PM remained in production for more than half a century

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By the beginning of the Russian campaign, three volunteer regiments of foreign citizens had been created in the ranks of the SS, and with the outbreak of hostilities, the number of foreign units began to grow steadily. The participation of foreign legions in the war against the USSR was supposed to show, according to Himmler's plan, a pan-European

Signing of the treaty "Ravenous" peace During the First World War, the Russian army inflicted a number of heavy defeats on the Ottoman Empire. Russian troops occupied a number of regions of Turkey, captured Erzurum (the largest administrative and military center of the eastern part of Turkey), Bitlis and Trebizond. The Russian fleet was preparing

The trial of Patriarch Nikon (SD Miloradovich, 1885) Since the time of the Great Schism, the people and the authorities have irrevocably moved away from each other. There is a gradual loss of living faith, a decline in the authority of the church. Official Orthodoxy is degenerating, shrinking, becoming an appearance. In the final we will get

Tabor (Cossacks). Y. Brandt Istanbul's appetites were not limited to Ukraine. The projects of the times of Ivan the Terrible were revived - to subjugate the entire North Caucasus, capture the Volga region, restore the Astrakhan and Kazan khanates under the protectorate of Turkey. Russia had to pay tribute to Crimea as a successor

V. I. Lenin and K. E. Voroshilov among the delegates of the X Congress of the RCP (b). 1921 Exhaustion of the country World War, Troubles, intervention and mass migration led to the depletion of Russia, its resources, human and material. War communism policy, mobilization policy aimed at confronting enemies

Soldiers of the Buryat-Mongolian regiment of the Asian cavalry division The leaders of the "February" nature, bourgeois-liberal, pro-Western, prevailed completely. Among the exceptions was Baron Roman Fyodorovich von

Tsar Alexander II 140 years ago the Russian Emperor Alexander II the Liberator was killed. The sovereign was killed in a terrorist attack carried out by several members of the Narodnaya Volya organization in St. Petersburg. This was far from the first attempt on the life of a reformer tsar. Interestingly

"Cossacks". I. RepinGo over to the tsarist power of most of the right-bank Cossack regiments Throughout Ukraine, the name of Doroshenko, who brought the Turks, caused a general curse. The Turkish occupation led to massive violence, plunder and the capture of people for sale into slavery. Turkish colonization turned out to be even worse

Painting by Russian artist Alexei Kivshenko: "The entry of Russian troops into Paris in 1814" How Russia was "thanked" for the victory over the French Empire At the same time, 2/3 of the "Great Army" were not French, but various Germans

Red Army soldiers enter TiflisGeorgian "Democracy" The Georgian Democratic Republic was proclaimed in May 1918, after the collapse of the Transcaucasian Republic. The government was headed by the Georgian Mensheviks. Among them were prominent figures who previously played a large role in

Church Council in 1654 (Patriarch Nikon presents new liturgical texts) A.D. Kivshenko, 1880 Nikon proclaimed a global project: "New Jerusalem to be in Moscow!" New Jerusalem will become the world center of Orthodoxy, similar to the Vatican. Nikon himself will become an "Orthodox pope." His

United Partisan Army of the Tambov province In the fall of 1920, when the last strong centers of the White movement - the Wrangel Crimea and Semyonovskaya Chita - were crushed, the Bolsheviks had to strain their forces in the fight against the "green", rebels and bandits. Frunze, in the fight against them, introduced the term "small

The Red Army attacks the Kronstadt fortress on the ice of the Gulf of Finland. March 1921 Maritime Republic After the February Revolution of 1917, the base of the Baltic Fleet became a kind of autonomous republic. Anarchists dominated the ships of the Baltic Fleet and the Kronstadt fortress. Massive

The assassination of Emperor Paul I. French engraving Accusing Russia of "crimes against the state," England is displaying monstrous hypocrisy. Over the past 300 years, England has been Russia's worst enemy. And only by the middle of the 20th century did it share this place with the United States. British stand behind premature death

Modern portrait of the head of the Asian Cavalry Division, Lieutenant General Baron R. F. von Ungern-Sternberg / center Since the beginning of hostilities, he deserved

Drake accepts the surrender of Admiral Pedro de Valdes European predators are increasingly spread across the planet. At the same time, the colonial policy of different countries was quite different. A particularly strong difference was between Catholics and Protestants. Spain When the Spanish conquistadors captured

Battle of Khotyn. Dutch artist J. van HuchtenburgUkraine under the rule of the Ottomans turned into a "wild field". Podolia was directly incorporated into the Turkish Empire. The West Russian population of the region fell into real slavery. The hetman's rate, Chigirin, at this time became a large slave

Arrival of Dmitry the impostor to Kaluga after fleeing from Tushino. The painting by N. Dmitriev-Orenburgsky "The Good Tsar" more and more resembled a formidable autocrat. The boyars and nobles were suspected of betrayal. His "guardsmen" seized the courtiers and executed them. The Polish prisoners were tortured and drowned. Swedish aid

D. Shmarin's painting "Baron Ungern - For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland" 100 years ago, the Asian division under the command of Baron von Ungern defeated the Chinese and took Urga, the capital of Mongolia, by storm. The independence of Outer Mongolia, which was previously occupied by Chinese troops, was restored. The actual

Burning of Archpriest Avvakum. Russian painter Pyotr Myasoedov, 1897 370 years ago, the Great schism of the Russian Church and the people began. Patriarch Nikon led the power struggle against his people. Since the time of the split, the people, the official church and the government have been irrevocably alienated from each other. Alive

Kamyanets-Podolsk fortress Under Turkish rule, the Hetmanate retained internal autonomy, freedom from Turkish taxes and pledged to help the Sultan with his army. For himself personally, Doroshenko bargained for irremovability from the hetman dignity and inheritance in his family. Pro-Turkish stance sparked anger