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The Eierland lighthouse after restoration and how it looked after the end of the fighting Lyricist: Andreas Wilhelmus. Translation: Slug_BDMP. In early April 1945, a bloody began on the Dutch island of Texel
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Oath of volunteers of the 13th mountain division "Khanjar". In the foreground 37-mm anti-tank gun 37 (t) (Czechoslovak Skoda 37, arr. 1937) End of the essay on the history of the "Bosnian-Muslim" 13th SS Mountain Division "Khanjar". The first part: "13th SS Mountain Division" Khanjar ". Birth
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Few people know what about. Russian with its famous batteries and forts had several names. One of its first names was in honor of the military governor of the Primorsky region Kazakevich P.V. In memory of the geographical discoveries of Russian sailors in the Pacific Ocean, Governor General of Eastern Siberia
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By the day of the Border Guard, I want to tell you about two cases, or stories, as you like. I myself was born, raised and live in one of the settlements of the Far East, one side of which smoothly passes and rests against … SIS. The system of engineering structures, for those who do not know. These are the rows of prickly
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This book should be in every home; every student should read it. This is a terribly convincing book; sorry, it was released in scanty circulation. However, its reprint under the author's title is now being sold. "I saw what a person cannot see … He cannot … I saw how at night I went
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Continuing the series of articles about the "shell version" as the reason for the defeat of the Russian fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, in this article we will compare the effect of Russian and Japanese shells on those parts of ships that were protected by armor: the side in the waterline area (belt), gun turrets, casemates , conning towers and
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A week ago I was here in passing noticed that the thesis about the alleged inability of pre-communist Russia to the rapid and successful development of the defense industry and about the absence in Russia until 1917 of large investment funds allocated for defense, is refuted as a successful implementation
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"Admiral Nakhimov" (from 26.12.1922 - "Chervona Ukraine", from 6.2.1950 - "STZh-4", from 30.10.1950 - "TsL-53") Laid down on October 18, 1913 at the Russud plant. March 18, 1914 included in the lists of the Black Sea Fleet. Launched on October 25, 1915 Construction was suspended in March 1918 In January 1920, during the evacuation of whites from
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The effect of Russian shells on unarmored parts of armored ships Sources for the analysis of hits on Japanese ships will be damage schemes from "Top Secret History", analytical materials by Arseny Danilov, V. Ya. Krestyaninov's monograph "Tsushima battle" and article
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We continue to study the "shell version". In the third article of the series, we will look at the unpleasant features of the shells that manifested themselves during the war. In Japanese, these are tears in the barrel at the time of the shot. For the Russians, this is an abnormally high percentage of non-breaks when hitting a target. Consider first
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Tsushima fires became a mysterious phenomenon for the reason that, firstly, nothing similar was observed in other battles of the Russo-Japanese War, and secondly, British and French tests of projectiles equipped with picric acid did not reveal their ability to initiate fires. same
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The reason for the new aggravation of Russian-Kazan relations was the "dishonesty and shame" committed by Khan Safa-Girey (ruled 1524-1531, 1536-1549) to the Russian ambassador Andrei Pilyemov in the spring of 1530. The chronicler did not specify what the insult was. This incident overwhelmed Moscow's patience, and
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How the peninsula was annexed to the Russian Empire under Catherine II "Like a Crimean tsar came to our land …" The first raid of the Crimean Tatars for slaves on the lands of Moscow Russia took place in 1507. Before that, the lands of Muscovy and the Crimean Khanate divided the Russian and Ukrainian territories of the Great
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Galileo Galilei (1564 -1642) is considered the father of modern experimental science. He pioneered dynamics as the exact science of motion. With the help of a telescope, he demonstrated the validity of Copernicus's thesis about the movement of the Earth, which was denied by Aristotelian scientists and Roman Catholic
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1. The size of the medieval armies that participated in a particular battle, it is quite problematic to find out. This is due to the lack of accurate documents. Despite this, it can be clearly said that at the Battle of Agincourt, the British were clearly in the minority. The English army at Agincourt consisted of
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Stratification By the beginning of the Iron Age, social stratification had developed in the Baltics, as evidenced by clear differences in funeral customs. The supreme lived on the dominant farm within the settlement or in mountain fortresses. They were buried in stone graves with various important artifacts
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This must be known and passed on to generations so that this never happens again. Monument to Stanislaw Leszczynska in the Church of St. Anne near Warsaw Stanislaw Leszczynska, a midwife from Poland, remained in the Auschwitz camp for two years until January 26, 1945, and only in 1965 wrote this
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Great, formidable, bloody and even cursed - as soon as they called the person who solely ruled Russia. We propose to discard stereotypes and take a fresh look at the rulers of the empire: historical anecdotes and curious situations. Nicholas the First firmly entrenched the glory of a despot and a soldier
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The first letter to his wife Olga Nikolaevna Antipova is dated September 4, 1904 from Revel (Tallinn). Here is what the commander notes: “In Revel, the week passed unnoticed, but it cannot be said that it was very successful: constant breakdowns of cars, electric motors, disturbances on ships and often a restless sea interfere with
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Shouting "glory!" At the top of your voice! incomparably more difficult than "hurray!" No matter how you shout, you will not achieve powerful rumblings. From a distance it will always seem that they are shouting not "glory", but "ava", "ava", "ava"! In general, this word turned out to be inconvenient for parades and
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In war, anything can happen and sometimes it is possible to fully realize the importance of an event only decades later. I will tell you a story about how the fates of the soldiers and leaders were intertwined in a whimsical way at an altitude of 5642 meters above sea level. And as a Russian lieutenant Nikolai Gusak, he gave a slap in the face to himself
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We must start with the fact that all the information has been posted long ago. And it's not secret. Letters and diaries of the participants of the campaign. Their testimony to the commission of inquiry and in court. For amateurs - even Japanese documents … There are tons of papers (I note, long ago digitized). You just need to read and think about them. Non-Soviet memoirs of the 30s
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The soldier from the poster “Glory to the Red Army! Come on! " never been to Berlin and died before the release of the legendary poster. The brave fighter with swirling bangs on the famous poster of the Soviet artist Leonid Golovanov is not an ordinary soldier, but one of the best snipers of the Great Patriotic War, who, alas, in
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Officers in tsarist Russia have always been a special "caste", different from both soldiers and civilians. The alienation from society was explained, in particular, by the fact that officers did not have the right to join political parties, but had to be guided throughout their lives
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At the dawn of the formation of Soviet Russia in the 1920s, the bully became the figure that determined the life of the cities. The account of crimes of this kind (beatings, robberies and other violence) went to hundreds of thousands. Gradually, hooliganism began to turn to terror - "rail war", disruption of rallies and mass events
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As part of the implementation of the shipbuilding program "For the needs of the Far East", adopted in early 1898, the Russian government, represented by the ITC, announced an international competition for the construction of battleships, cruisers and destroyers to strengthen the Pacific squadron. However, already in the spring of 1898, the Russian side in
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This happened in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Our regiments were stationed in eastern Manchuria in the Sypingai positions. To them, from the disposition of the Japanese, a rider with a white flag came forward. On behalf of his commander, he invited any of the Russian officers to go out and fight in a wide field with sabers with
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Yampolsky IM - a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad- I repeat once again, a lot has been written about Stalingrad. But what case has remained in your memory that is not mentioned by historians in numerous monographs? - Probably, the case at the Tractor Plant remained unknown or not mentioned in publications. V
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On August 4, 1944, a member of the French Resistance with the underground pseudonym Viki was beheaded in the German prison of Ploetzensee
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Unknown feat DATE September 23, 1941 is included in all history textbooks - on this day our troops stopped the Germans at the Pulkovo Heights. But in reality, the battle for Leningrad began two days earlier. Before the ground offensive, the Nazis threw their aviation to destroy the Red Banner
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On July 16, 1944, the famous partisan parade was held in liberated Minsk.This parade rightfully stands out from all the solemn military marches and reviews in the history of mankind. After all, it was not soldiers of the regular army who participated in it, but soldiers who fought in the occupied territory in partisan
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On August 13, 1850, at the mouth of the Amur, Captain Gennady Nevelskoy hoisted the Russian flag and founded the Nikolaev post. The rich Amur region has long attracted Russian settlers. The first Russian settlement on the Amur, Albazin, appeared in the middle of the 17th century. Albazin was formed here in 1684
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By the middle of the 11th century, the nomadic Turkic-speaking people of the Polovtsy came close to the eastern and southern borders of the Old Russian state. The first contact of the Russians with the Polovtsians was peaceful, the Kiev prince Vsevolod, the son of Yaroslav the Wise, entered into an alliance with them against the common enemy of the Torks. After the victory over the Torks
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The fact that in Spain the republican army with the participation of advisers from the USSR was defeated by the troops of General Franco, who was assisted by the Nazis, is well known to everyone. But about the fact that around the same years in South America, the army of Paraguay, which was also led by Russian officers, utterly
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Monument to the peasants Nikon Shilov and Pyotr Slota in Sergiev Posad, near the walls of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra
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In the Soviet Union, physical education was very popular. A healthy mind in a healthy body, that was the slogan of many Soviet citizens. The parades of athletes were also very popular. In its beauty, the number of spectators present, the event could be compared only with military parades
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“It was a victory of the spirit.” Emperor Nicholas IIAfter entering service as early as next year, 1898, the coastal defense battleship “Admiral Ushakov” was annually included for three weeks in the Training and Artillery Detachment of the Baltic Fleet to improve the training of artillerymen. Intensive
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115 years ago, Artemy Artsikhovsky was born, an outstanding scientist, specialist in Slavic-Russian archeology Artemy Vladimirovich was born on December 13 (26), 1902 in St. Petersburg in the family of the famous botanist Vladimir Artsikhovsky. Studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Moscow University at
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The heroic fortress of Osovets is inextricably linked with the figure of its commandant - General Nikolai Aleksandrovich Brzhozovsky - a Russian military leader, lieutenant general, participant in almost all the wars that Russia waged in the late 19th - early 20th centuries
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"Catapult" In early July 1940, the British navy carried out a series of operations that claimed the lives of over 1,300 French sailors. United by the common name "Catapult", they provided for the capture or destruction of the ships of their yesterday's allies in the British and colonial