History 2024, November

Anything you can put your bloody hand on, hold on tight, gentlemen! Wellington Colonel of the British Colonial Army Wars don't start out so easy - there must be reasons for war. In addition to reasons, there must be pretexts: you must explain why you are forced to fight

The KV-1 tank earned contradictory assessments. They rightly criticized it for lack of reliability - the transmission, which could not withstand the loads of a heavy tank, especially often failed. But at the same time, the tank was hardly vulnerable to enemy fire, very tenacious. The shell got stuck in the tower, like a knife thrown into

An inconspicuous little hamsa fish for Novorossiys is not just an inhabitant of the Black Sea, but a real symbol of the city, and most importantly a savior from starvation, truly the second bread. Every year during the fishing season in Novorossiysk, like mushrooms after the rain, anchovy tents appear selling salted fish

There are many legends about the commander of the 394th stationary coastal artillery battery, Andrei Zubkov. But one of them is the most famous in Novorossiysk. One day, the command came to battery 394 with some kind of inspection. In the Novorossiysk naval base, rumors were already in full swing about

In the life of the modern world, since the second half of the twentieth century, the US CIA has played a huge role. Many wars, ethnic conflicts, "orange revolutions" and coups d'etat were planned and carried out with the direct participation of American foreign intelligence. For seventy years

This dramatic event in our history is reminded today of a modest granite obelisk erected near the Blagoveshchensky bridge in St. Petersburg. On it there is a laconic inscription: “Outstanding figures of Russian philosophy set off for forced emigration from this embankment in the fall of 1922

The approaching centenary of the revolution in Russia is a good reason to think once again about why events called "turmoil", "coup", "revolution" periodically occur in history. And the first question: what are the reasons for what happened to Russia in 1917? ? Yes, there are many books in

Since 1991, the myth of the second half of the 1930s as the most "negative" period in the history of the USSR, and possibly the entire history of Russia, has completely dominated, when the "ghoul" Joseph Stalin unleashed a "bloody terror" against a significant part of the population of our country. Even the achievements of those years were interpreted as

Monument "Sons of the Fatherland - Grieving Russia. 1939-1940". Sculptor Oleg Komov In the autumn and winter of 1939-1940, the dramatic events of the Soviet-Finnish war unfolded. I want to tell you about one white spot in its history - the deaths of thousands of Soviet soldiers and officers in the forests

We dedicate another article from the series on the history of coups to South Korea. On March 15, 1960, the presidential elections were held in South Korea. Only one person claimed the highest post in the country: the current head of state, Lee Seung Man, who at that time had already become three times

170 years ago, on April 25, 1846, the Mexican-American War (Mexican War) began. The war began with territorial disputes between Mexico and the United States following the capture of Texas by the United States in 1845. Mexico was defeated and lost vast territories: the United States was given the Upper

Rear Admiral Lazarev's squadron on the roadstead of Constantinople The summer of 1832 crawled into the Topkapi palace with ominous stuffiness and alarm. The owner of these walls has ceased to feel that blissfully serene sense of peace, which helps to relax and concentrate on something distracted, for example, on

What do Ireland and Mexico have in common? A distant island in northwestern Europe, inhabited by descendants of the Celts, and a large Spanish-speaking country in Central America - it would seem, apart from the Catholic religion, which is professed by both the Irish and the Mexicans - practically nothing in common. But every year 12

In the history of World War II, there are many events that simply fell out of public consciousness, although formally there is no ban on their announcement. It will not be a mistake to say that in our mass representation of history there are "forgotten pages of victory", which, with careful

If you ask citizens on the streets what territories the former Russian Empire lost after the revolutions of 1917 and the Civil War, then Poland, Finland or the Baltic states are most often remembered. Less commonly - Bessarabia, annexed by Romania. Transcaucasia, on the other hand, sounds extremely rare, despite the considerable

The history of the Volga-Don region is much richer than it is commonly believed. Yes, the fateful battle of World War II took place here - the Battle of Stalingrad, the drama of the civil war was played out right there, and the history of the local Cossacks, and their struggle for a free life, first with the tsarist, and then with the Soviet

Following the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, Japan regained its independence. However, a number of its territories remained under US control. In particular, the island of Okinawa. In these territories, the American military administration functioned, the US dollar served as the currency (replacing the so-called

Living on the legendary land, it is impossible to stay away from the grandiose events taking place on it. Even if these events happened a long time ago. 72 years ago, on November 19, 1942, a Soviet counteroffensive began in the Stalingrad region. According to the plan of Operation Uranus, the troops

In the translated literature (translated mainly from English) for children and adolescents, which was popular in the 90s, I found an interesting feature. If the British honestly wrote that the world's first nuclear power plant started working in Russia, then the Americans write that “the first industrial reactor started working in 1956 in

There are events that regularly remind of themselves. On March 30, 2015, the 110th anniversary of the birth of the First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee and the City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Alexei Semyonovich Chuyanov will be celebrated on the Volgograd land, whose activities are forever connected with the history of the battle on the banks of the Volga

Exactly 160 years ago, on March 2, 1855, Emperor Alexander II the Liberator ascended the throne, who was destined to carry out transformations comparable to the reforms of Peter I. He got a semi-feudal country that had lost the war, which had to be pulled into a new era. According to his

When we worked on a series of articles about Lend-Lease, periodically there were facts that you simply refuse to believe. A country that is one of the victors of fascism, a country that supplied weapons and equipment to the allies (and good equipment!) To fight Hitler and his army, a country

Wrangelites in Bulgaria Battered, humiliated and bloodless Bulgaria was an ideal candidate for a long internal turmoil. A fairly young, but small and poor state, it went through the First World War. Bulgaria entered there for a banal reason for such actions - the country harbored a grudge against

The fall of the capital After the defeat of the Ethiopian forces on the Northern Front, the Italian army began marching to Addis Ababa. At the same time, the left wing of Badoglio's army was provided with troops that were advancing in the central operational direction from Assab through the Danakl desert (various supplies and water were delivered

The plan of the offensive The general idea of the offensive was to break through the center of the front of the Turkish army in the direction of the village of Kepri-kei. To rivet the attention of the enemy, his reserves, as well as covertly concentrate the troops of the army group to break through the enemy front, the 2nd Turkestan and 1st Caucasian

Campaign of 1808 For the war with Sweden, 24 thousand people were formed. army under the command of General of Infantry FF Buxgewden. The army was small, since at this time the Russian army continued to wage war with the Ottoman Empire. In addition, despite the peace with France and the outwardly friendly

As you know, in the Spanish Civil War, two irreconcilable political and ideological forces clashed: on one side, Republicans - liberals, left-wing socialists, communists and anarchists, on the other - Spanish nationalists - monarchists, phalangists, carlists and traditionalists. Bloody

Start of the Austro-German offensive. Fall of Belgrade During September 1915, in order to mislead the Serbian command, the German artillery fired several times on the Serbian banks of the Danube and Sava. On October 5-6, 1915, the actual artillery preparation began

One of my acquaintances, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, once said: “There is an opinion that Ivanov is the most common surname among Russians. And at the front, to be honest, I most often met the Smirnovs. And even though they all fought in different ways, they were equally valiant. "

Battle of Lepanto. Unknown artist of the end of the 16th century On September 6, 1566, when the Turkish Janissaries went to storm the small town of Siget (later known as Shigetvar) to the sound of their famous drums, Suleiman died on the road between Belgrade and Vienna in his tent at the age of 73

Cavalry played an important role in this operation. In order to facilitate the action of Smirnov's 2nd Army, it was decided to concentrate all the cavalry on its right flank. The 1st Cavalry Corps of Oranovsky (8th and 14th

On October 10, 1731, with the signing of a charter on the voluntary entry of Western Kazakhstan (Younger Zhuz) into the Russian state for many centuries, up to the notorious Belovezhskaya meeting, the unity and commonality of the fate of the Kazakhs with the Russian and other peoples of Russia were determined

On September 11, 1709, the largest battle of the 18th century took place - the Battle of Malplac between the Franco-Bavarian army under the command of the Duke de Villard and the anti-French coalition troops led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy, which was one of the culminating episodes

This striped shirt as a piece of uniform is worn by sailors of many countries, but it was only in Russia that the vest (vest) became a special symbol, a distinctive sign of real men. The beginning of the 18th century, the sailing era. After the clothing inconsistency in the European fleets, a uniform uniform was introduced according to the Dutch model:

Almost a hundred years ago, by a resolution of the Military Council, a four-gun battery was built on the western coast of the Balaklava Bay at Cape Kurona to protect Sevastopol. This southernmost outpost of the city's defensive line was capable of reaching cruisers and battleships up to 20 kilometers away

Regimes like Kiev are stable if there is only one point of view. The heirs of Hitler and Bandera ban books and films, kill journalists and writers. Editions of Russian authors are withdrawn from the shelves of Estonian stores. TV channels stop broadcasting in Latvia and Lithuania. Tomorrow from

May 9, 1992 Germany. The town of Vitstock. Military unit 52029. - Be equal! This was the last Victory Day that Soviet soldiers and officers celebrated on the former territory of the GDR. Military unit 52029 had several months left before being sent home, to the east. They saluted the flag

Federal Law No. 32-FZ of March 13, 1995 defined a special day in the calendar of military holidays and memorable dates - the Day of Military Glory of Russia - the Day of the beginning of the Soviet counteroffensive in the battle of Moscow in 1941. December 5 Red Army on a wide front from Kalinin in the north to Yelets

In the summer of 1944, Soviet troops cleared most of our enemy-occupied territory from the Nazis and fought in the countries of Central and Southeastern Europe. In the areas liberated from German troops, a significant number of small groups remained, created from defeated enemy units and

In the fall of 1944, after the decisive hostilities of the Soviet Army in Karelia and the signing of an armistice agreement with Finland, favorable conditions were created to completely expel enemy troops from the Arctic and liberate Northern Norway. The defeat of the German troops in Karelia sharply worsened them