History 2024, November

The transition of the tsarist army to the side of the provisional government was the reason for its end On February 27, 1917, after the manifesto on the dissolution of the Duma, a Provisional Committee was formed by part of the deputies of opposition views. He announced that he was taking over the restoration of state and public order and

20 years ago, the Day of Internal Troops was established and first celebrated. In the USSR, almost everyone who wore shoulder straps had their own red days in the calendar: border guards, tankmen, missilemen, sailors, pilots, policemen, security officers … And only the servicemen of the internal troops were deprived. Though

A quarter of a century without the Warsaw Pact did not add security to Europe In 1990, the Warsaw Pact (ATS) ceased to exist, five years before its half-century anniversary. To what extent is an objective analysis of the activities of this once powerful military-political organization possible at the present stage?

Ninety-five years ago, on March 21, 1921, in pursuance of the decisions of the X Congress of the RCP (b), the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) of the RSFSR adopted the Decree "On the replacement of food and raw materials distribution with a tax in kind."

And now the Poles remember the events of those years very selectively. The Bolsheviks towards Poland were then more than loyal, controversial issues could be resolved at the negotiating table. They were thwarted by the Polish leader Józef Pilsudski, who had ambitious geopolitical plans and behaved approximately

The uncrowned emperor, the de facto co-ruler of Catherine the Great - this is how Grigory Potemkin is often called in historical monographs and novels. His influence on the development of the Russian Empire in the 70s and 80s of the 18th century was enormous. Geopolitical projects of His Serene Highness predetermined the future

The ideas of revanchism are very fashionable now. They say that everything was fine in tsarist Russia - there was no hunger, there was a high birth rate and an increase in production, etc. And if we add that a bunch of scoundrels stole the victory from Russia in 1917, then big political dividends can be earned on this

How the Urals created a tank corps that terrified the enemy "Russian Planet" decided to turn over the most heroic pages of his

How did banking begin? Professor, Doctor of Economics Valentin Katasonov Ivan Aivazovsky, Venice, tells about the civilizational roots of this phenomenon. 1844 Both in the field of theology (theology) and in the field of practical church policy, Catholicism, after separating from Orthodoxy, followed

From the morning of March 14, 1946, loudspeakers, which were then in almost all Soviet city apartments, transmitted the answers of I.V. Stalin to the questions of the Pravda correspondent regarding the recent speech of the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In his answers, Stalin called

On March 18, 1915, the firstborn of the Russian air defense system was formed - a separate automobile battery for firing at the air fleet

MOSCOW, March 18. / TASS /. The Russian submarine fleet turns 110 on March 19. During this period, domestic submarines have gone through several stages of development - from tiny "hidden ships" to the world's largest strategic missile carriers. Since its appearance in the Navy

March 19 110 Years of the Russian Submarine Fleet On March 19 (6th, old style), 1906, Nicholas II signed a decree "On the classification of ships of the Russian Imperial Navy", where "He deigned to command" to include submarines in a separate category. Development of "secret ships" went on in the country for a long time

125 years ago, on March 17, 1891, Emperor Alexander III signed the rescript. "I command now to begin the construction of a continuous railway across the whole of Siberia, which has to connect the abundant gifts of nature of the Siberian regions with a network of internal communications," the monarch ordered. 125th anniversary

On March 18, 1946, the Law "On the five-year plan for the restoration and development of the national economy of the USSR for 1946-1950" was signed, which ensured in the shortest possible time the restoration of the war-torn economy of our country. The hostilities of 1941-1945 caused serious damage to the economy of our country. By

Scary figures appear in the newspapers: in Russia, 2 million school-age children do not go to school. They remain illiterate. Thousands of schools are closed in rural areas. There are purely street kids growing in the cities. When I read these messages, I involuntarily remember how we studied in the destroyed

The Emperor, who equated his fate with the fate of the country, turned Russia into one of the strongest powers in the world in 13 years. Preparing from infancy for

On March 15, 1812, the legendary Russian outpost on the North American coast of California, Fort Ross, was founded.The legendary sale of Alaska to the United States was a deal that deprived the Russian Empire of one and a half million square kilometers of territory, albeit not the most convenient for life, but how

There was no "spontaneous uprising of the dissatisfied masses."

Exactly 25 years ago, citizens of the Soviet Union voted to preserve the USSR in a special all-Union referendum. More precisely, they believed that they were voting for this, but the reality turned out to be much more complicated. It included not only betrayal, when the Union was dissolved without regard to

On March 10, 1904, a detachment of Russian destroyers won a battle, where the sides had an approximately equal composition in number and class of ships. The arrival in Port Arthur of the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Vice Admiral S.O. Makarov, led to the intensification of the actions of the Russian squadron. Regular steel

In 2012, after 30 years of secrecy in the UK, documents from the 1980s concerning the war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) were made public. New portion of declassified British government documents

Who were the Khlynov ushkuiniks and how they founded Vyatka "Russian Planet" decided to tell who the ushkuyniks were, what role they played in history and why Moscow

On February 26, 1712, by decree of Peter I, the beginning of the Tula arms factory was laid.In the history of Russia and the Russian army, Tula and its defense factories have always played and will continue to play a colossal role. It is not for nothing that this city is called either the arms capital of Russia, or the main forge of Russian weapons. Let be

The beginning of the Great Patriotic War caught me with my mother and sister near the city of Rybinsk on the Volga, where we went on summer school holidays. And although we wanted to return to Leningrad immediately, my father assured us that this was not necessary. Like many people of that time, he hoped that in

Former Minister of Tourism and Culture of Turkey Erturul Gunay, a seasoned politician who served as a minister in Recep Erdogan’s cabinet when he was still prime minister, made an intriguing statement to Zaman. “I am one of those representatives of the former government

Tula says goodbye to an outstanding weapons designer, author of the famous Grad and Smerch MLRS, Gennady Alekseevich Denezhkin. Yesterday, all day from the very morning, the Tula people went to honor the memory of the person they knew, loved, and were proud of. The flow of people was not interrupted for a single

Interest in Russian history is growing in Finland Russia and Sweden have no common border, but this was not always the case. Since the time of Novgorod Rus, military-territorial conflicts have arisen between our countries 18 times and lasted 139 years in total. The much more famous 69 years of the Russo-Turkish wars fade away on this

Soviet troops, equipped with the latest technology, successfully fought gangs on the territory of ChinaIn the 30s of the last century, China was going through an extremely difficult period. After the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, the country disintegrated into de facto independent but officially unrecognized province-states

About the Military Doctrine of the Red Army in the early 1920s - are we defending or attacking? The last quarter of the 20th century was marked in Russian history by the introduction into scientific circulation of a huge array of previously inaccessible documents. But little-explored topics remain. One of them is a discussion in the early 20s of the Military

"Bald dandy, enemy of labor" - in the words of the caustic poet, in our time, Alexander I would be called a hipster. Admire his ceremonial portrait by Stepan Shchukin: elegant tanks, a small neat "Mohawk" covering an early bald spot … At first nothing betrayed him

At the end of the story about the medals of the Catherine era, we will tell you about her last significant "manet" - the medal for the capture of Prague. But, since the short period of the reign of Paul I that followed did not "spoil" the Russian soldiers with well-deserved awards, first let's look a little ahead

No wonder it is said that the big is seen at a distance. The time is palpably approaching when the need for an objective, unbiased assessment of the experience of building a socialist society in our country began to appear. An experience that failed catastrophically, thank God, without an apocalyptic

I recall the last sailing of the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy, Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet Sergei Gorshkov, in the Northern Fleet, which took place on October 6, 1984, and fell on the Commander-in-Chief's check of the year's results

February 10. / TASS /. Exactly 110 years ago, on February 10, 1906, the British warship Dreadnought was launched in Portsmouth. By the end of the same year, it was completed and entered into the Royal Navy. "Dreadnought", combining a number of innovative solutions, became the ancestor of a new

February 9, Poland marks a tragic date - the beginning of the Volyn massacre. It was on this day, 73 years ago, that a bandit offspring calling themselves the "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" attacked the first Polish village of Paroslya (this is today's Rivne region of Ukraine). 173 peaceful Poles were brutally killed, in

The Swedish king Gustav III cherished ideas that were far from reality. About, for example, that, taking advantage of kinship and Masonic brotherhood with the Russian Tsarevich Pavel, to beg him for the Baltics. And then completely ride a white horse to Senate Square and throw the Bronze Horseman off the pedestal

The Moscow Kremlin is the heart and soul of the capital, its source. The Moscow Kremlin is a stronghold of power, a citadel of Russian statehood. It was here that the fate of people, the fate of the country, the fate of peoples were decided. The Moscow Kremlin has always been perceived as the sacred center of the country

Russian participation in the French Resistance movement is still a little-known chapter of the Second World War. Meanwhile, more than 35 thousand Soviet soldiers and Russian emigrants fought against the Nazis on French soil. Seven and a half thousand of them died in battles with the enemy

Against the background of fees in the millions of dollars, the amount of several tens of thousands looks ridiculous. However, even such a modest remuneration for some irresponsible citizens is enough to start a dangerous game