History 2024, November

As you know, all current Russian generals and officers once took a course in military history both in schools and academies. However, it seems that not every representative of the highest and senior command personnel pondered the essence of the events of the long and recent past, drawing lessons from the experience of the famous

After Gavrila Princip committed the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the possibility of preventing the war remained, and neither Austria nor Germany considered this war inevitable. Between the day the Archduke was assassinated, and

The story of the elimination of the OUN conductor of the Carpathian Territory Ya.Melnik - "Robert". "N00663 November 6, 1946 Top secret to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) U Comrade N.S. Khrushchev Implementing the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (B) -1946, the task of strengthening strikes against the leading levels of the OUN-UPA

A unique person passed away - Honored Test Pilot, Hero of Russia Colonel Sergei Melnikov A unique person passed away - Honored Test Pilot, Hero of Russia Colonel Sergei Melnikov, one of those amazing pilots who lifted into the sky, taught how to land and take off from the deck

While the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, one million six hundred thousand Soviet soldiers suddenly attacked the Japanese army in the east of the Asian continent. In a matter of days, the million-strong army of Emperor Hirohito was defeated. This was a key moment

On the night of August 3, 1572, the Crimean army of Devlet-Girey, defeated on the Pakhra River near the village of Molody, hastily retreated to the south. Trying to break away from the pursuit, the khan put up several barriers, which were destroyed by the Russians. Only one-sixth of the 120-thousandth

Back in the second half of the 30s, a special toxicological laboratory was created in the NKVD, which, since 1940, was headed by a brigade doctor, and later by a colonel of state security, Professor Grigory Mayranovsky (until 1937 he headed a group on poisons as part of the Institute of Biochemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences, also

Voluminous volume "Red Army men in Polish captivity in 1919-1922." prepared by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia, the Russian State Military Archive, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Economic History and the Polish General

The most "stupid" armored vehicles supplied by the USSR under Lend-Lease were the American M3 medium tanks, the varieties of which were called "General Lee" and "General Grant" in England. All M3 modifications had such an original appearance that it was difficult to confuse them with German or

15 kilometers from Sevastopol, between the Fiolent and Aya capes, there is one of the oldest Crimean settlements - Balaklava. In addition to unique natural monuments, traces of the Genoese fortress Chembalo and ancient temples have been preserved here. But the most striking are the powerful underground structures with a huge

The appearance of this aircraft is simply mesmerizing, it is not for nothing that it is now often compared to modern American stealth machines. The designers of this aircraft were Siegfried Gunter and Eichner Hochbach. By the way, it is known that after the war, these designers were secretly taken to the United States, and it is quite possible that in

In one of the programs V. Pozner claimed that in 1941 the Russian roads prevented the Germans from taking Moscow. Of course, Posner is not the first to try to belittle the importance of the heroism of Soviet soldiers in defending the capital in this way, exaggerating the role of roads and the climate in general. This trend is clearly

Erzats-armored cars In the face of a shortage of armored vehicles, the militia converted personal vehicles into combat vehicles. Basically, the transformation consisted of adding a few sheets of iron to the doors and windows of an ordinary car, as well as installing a light machine gun on the roof. In makeshift armor

This tank is the most recognizable symbol of the Great Patriotic War. The best tank of the Second World War in its class. One of the most massive tanks in the world. The machine that forms the basis of the armored armies of the USSR that have passed through all of Europe. What kind of people led the "thirty-fours" into battle? How and where was it taught? What the fight looked like

In the young Land of the Soviets, hand-to-hand combat developed in a special way. This direction coincided with the vector of the country's development. The rejected "legacy of autocracy" left the popular fist fighting and the schools of technical training in hand-to-hand and bayonet fighting, which were used in the tsarist police and army. But

A new story about the feat of the "Immortal Garrison" At the end of last September on the NTV channel in the most prime time (at 19.30) was shown more than an hour documentary and publicistic film by Alexei Pivovarov "Brest. Serf heroes”. The demonstration was preceded by a lengthy

Today, soldiers and officers who have shown themselves in military service are usually celebrated with state awards - titles, orders, medals, a little less often - with personalized weapons. And what encouraged the warriors in Russia several centuries ago? To begin with, it is worth saying about the term itself. Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary of the Word

It's no secret that the weapons of the Second World War were forged by joint efforts. The Soviet Union and Germany helped each other to arm themselves, and the industrialization of the USSR, necessary for a major war, would have been impossible without the help of Western specialists. For these services the USSR paid by selling

The fate of this man is amazing. Handsome, heartthrob and mot, but at the same time the bravest officer, a brilliant scout, the commander of a partisan detachment, and by the end of his life - the Most Serene Prince and the highest dignitary of Russia. Alexander Ivanovich Chernyshev was born on January 10, 1786 (12/30/1785 according to the old style) in

On the pages of our site, a frequent topic is the theme - the Great Patriotic War ….. special disputes flare up around the assessment of the actions of the military leadership of the Soviet army, especially around one of the leaders - Zhukov G.K. …… I am not trying to give an assessment here to the one under Brezhnev and now. become

She could not resist the onslaught of the enemy, because she did not meet modern requirements at all While in France fortresses (Verdun and others) stopped the German offensive

This year, one of the main themes of the Valdai Club was the reconciliation of views on Russian history of the twentieth century, or rather, its terrible period between the revolution in 1917 and the death of Stalin in 1953. It should nudge the liberals of the Russian establishment who support President Dmitry

On May 25, 1889, the fifth child was born in the family of Ivan Alekseevich Sikorsky, a professor of psychology at Kiev University, a son who was named Igor. The Sikorsky family was not only famous in Kiev, it was highly respected. The head of a respectable family, who chose one of the

Anyone who is interested in the theme of the First World War or the formation of the Russian army often faced very vague times of the split of the Russian army in the period of 1917. Especially the so-called "death squads or shock troops", which were made up of the most desperate fighters. Creation initiative

Varyag (until June 19, 1990 - "Riga"), heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser of Project 1143. On December 6, 1985 laid down at the Black Sea shipyard in Nikolaev (serial number 106), launched on November 25, 1988. In 1992, at 67% technical readiness construction has been suspended

A Rolls-Royce raced along a road through a forest near Meaux, in northern France. It was October 1914, two months after the outbreak of the First World War. Driving was Alastair Cumming, a 24-year-old intelligence officer. Next to him sat his father, Mansfield Cumming, head of the Secret Intelligence Service

June 13, 1942 would have been another ordinary day of the Second World War in the Black Sea theater of operations, if not for one "but". It was on this summer day that two Soviet torpedo boats made a daring raid into the Yalta port, occupied by the Germans and their Italian allies and turned

In July 1941, Margaret Bourke-White, a photojournalist for the American magazine "Life", arrived in military Moscow. She worked in unique conditions: with the advent of the war, the filming regime in Moscow became much tougher, for unauthorized filming, as well as for a non-surrendered camera, a tribunal was relied on

According to various sources of that time, from 50 to 60 thousand Crimeans took part in the Tatar invasions of 1643-45 into the territory of the Moscow state. Such serious predatory campaigns deep into Muscovy could be possible only with the complete absence of the likelihood of a retaliatory

Roald Sagdeev - about how Niels Bohr did not fit into Leninism, why Landau did not honor Lomonosov, about innovations behind barbed wire, the Chinese trousers of Academician Kurchatov, about his relationship with Dwight Eisenhower, as well as about who actually won the world space race. We met with

For the first time, letters from the deputy chief prosecutor who represented Britain at the Nuremberg trials have been made public, The Guardian reports. "Today marks 63 years since the day when David Maxwell Fyfe began interrogating the defendant Hermann Goering," the correspondent notes

I have heard different stories, but, frankly, I have never heard such a story. The scout Alexey Nikodimovich Tolstov told me about it. Here it is for you word for word: It should be noted that my civilian specialty is a watchman at the city cemetery. Now I see: you are smiling! And this is what I'm talking about

Since ancient times they have been helping people in difficult military service, who are they? Dog You can talk for a long time about the service of dogs, here are just some places where dogs serve: - customs (search for weapons and drugs) - border (search and arrest of violators) - minefields ( mine search) - mountains (search and rescue

Where the popular historian is mistaken and what the popular historian overlooks The name of Alexei Isaev is very well known today to all Russians who are interested in the military chronicle of our country. He is often invited to television and radio studios for discussions, programs dedicated to the events of the 40s of the twentieth century, he often speaks in

1941 is one of the most mysterious moments in the history of our country. Mysterious not only for us, but also for the soldiers who passed through this year. The year is paradoxical. Heroism of the defenders of the Brest Fortress, border guards, pilots who made several air rams on the first day

For four years Rome endured the wild antics of the emperor Caligula. But there is a limit to everything. And so on January 24, 41 A.D. NS. a group of soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, led by the commander of the palace guards, broke into the palace and killed the cruel emperor. The tortured bodies of Caligula and his household lay on

In these August days, the newly minted President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski, the government and the Seimas congratulate their compatriots on the 90th anniversary of the victory of the army of Józef Piłsudski over the Red Army troops near Warsaw

A grenade is a type of ammunition designed to destroy enemy personnel and military equipment with fragments and a shock wave generated during an explosion. The use of grenades has a long history. The first progenitors of pomegranates were known even before the invention

“… It is impossible for a moment to think that the landing of a biplane in a quiet harbor and its takeoff from a large and awkward platform have something to do with really naval aviation. The only possible naval airplane will be launched from the side of the ship by an auxiliary mechanism and land on the water at the side

Continued, beginning here Were the directives of Moscow implemented? The 3rd and 10th armies of the Western Front, located in the Bialystok salient, were famous for the very first large capture of Soviet troops. Here, as part of the 10th Army, the most powerful in terms of the number and quality of tanks was located, well-supplied