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February 14 marks 73 years since that momentous day when Rostov-on-Don was liberated from the Nazi invaders in 1943. The "Gates of the Caucasus" were occupied by the Nazis and their allies twice. The first time, in the fall of 1941, the Nazis were able to capture Rostov for just a week. However, these

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The defeat near Moscow forced Hitler in early 1942 to look for new approaches in the strategic planning of the war against the USSR. The goal of the summer offensive of German troops on the eastern front in 1942 was set out in the secret directive of the German high command No. 41, approved by Hitler 5

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The author has probably already tired of the readers with the topic of the Dyatlov Pass, and all the same, I would risk returning to this topic again, but I will first explain the reason why it fascinated me so much

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All encyclopedias say that chemical weapons were created by the Germans in the First World War, and they first used it on June 22, 1915, and then it became the most terrible weapon of the World War. However, while working on the history of the Crimean War, I came across a Sevastopol diary

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Excellent possession of bladed weapons is the hallmark of the Russian cavalry. Well, what was the art and power of these blows? Sagatsky wrote about the amazing blows inflicted by Russian cavalrymen with melee weapons - both in peacetime and during the First World War. In this regard, he mentioned 2

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Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov is the same age as the century, the son of a peasant from the village of Serebryanye Prudy, Tula province. He writes about himself: “My ancestors are farmers. And if I was drafted into the tsarist army, my highest rank would be a soldier or sailor, like my four older brothers. But at the beginning of 1918 I

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160 years ago, on October 25, 1854, between the allied forces of England, France and Turkey, and the Russian troops, the Battle of Balaklava took place. This battle went down in history in connection with several memorable moments. So, in this battle, thanks to the mistakes of the British command, the color of the English

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Military gathering of the Circassians. Illustration by James Bell The tears of the Bana girl, the ubiquitous armored Buryats, the holy cow of the White Helmets, Russian hackers, the poisoners of the Skripals that were released, Russian special forces in Norway, and so on. All these are simple details of the modern information war, woven from so

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For the most part of the war, the city of Dresden existed rather calmly. It can be said in "resort" conditions - while the Allied aircraft devastated Hamburg and bombed Berlin, the capital of Saxony lived peacefully. Dresden, of course, was bombed several times, but as if casually and not very

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Bahu-Bike (illustration by Evgeniya Andreeva) The first half of the 19th century was a difficult time for Dagestan (now a united republic). Dagestan was torn apart by local rulers into separate competing possessions: Tarkovskoe shamkhalstvo, Mekhtulinskoe possession, Kyurinskoe, Kazikumukhskoe (Kazikumykskoe) and

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© "Voprosy istorii", №1, 2013.1On the sale of the Russian Colony Fort Ross in California2 In the summer of 1849, the newly appointed official for special assignments under the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia N.N. Muravyov Mikhail Semenovich Korsakov arrived on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk at the port of Ayan, built with funds

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I decided to visit South Ossetia. I wanted to for a long time, but now the opportunity has fallen - so that I go completely into emptiness, I am not a journalist to such an extent. And then it coincided that a friend was here on a business trip and the questions of where and how to get settled disappeared by themselves. In general, I decided - and went

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On December 24, 1991, in accordance with the decree of President Boris Yeltsin, the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information under the President of the Russian Federation (abbreviated as FAPSI) was created. From that time until 2003, for over eleven years, this special service

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75 years ago, the Third Reich defeated Yugoslavia and Greece. On April 13, 1941, the Nazis entered Belgrade. King Peter II and the Yugoslav government fled to Greece and then to Egypt. On April 17, 1941, an act of unconditional surrender was signed in Belgrade. Yugoslavia collapsed. Fell almost at the same time

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The quartering and arrangement of troops in wartime was one of the most difficult and responsible tasks of the War Ministry of the Russian Empire. A brief overview of the historical experience of solving these problems during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. - the purpose of this article. Of course, in

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Lieutenant Gareev after school, 1941 Photo "Krasnaya Zvezda" / redstar.ru On December 25, at the age of 97, General of the Army Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareev died. For half a century of service, he went from a simple Red Army soldier to deputy chief of the General Staff. Together with the fulfillment of their basic duties

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Simultaneously with the actions against Yugoslavia, the left wing of the 12th German army from the territory of Bulgaria began an offensive against Greece in the Thessaloniki direction. The grouping of German troops (six divisions, including one tank, united in the 18th and 30th corps) had great superiority in live

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The beginning of the 19th century opens a glorious era in the history of Russian navigation. In 1803-1806, the first round-the-world expedition under the Russian flag, headed by I.F.Kruzenshtern, took place. It was followed by new expeditions. They were led by V.M. Golovnin, F.F. Bellingshausen, M.P. Lazarev

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On March 22, 1933, the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany began to operate in Dachau. It was the first "experimental range" in which the system of punishments and other forms of physical and psychological abuse of prisoners was worked out. Before the outbreak of World War II, Dachau contained

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It's amazing how different people visit VO: some seem to know and understand everything, others write that there was no Rome, that Tutankhamun's coffin is a fake, that “the Etruscans are Russians,” and so on. It seems to be not clinical cases, although who will sort them out. However, this is probably even good, because

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And it happens to a bad blacksmith to forge a good sword. Japanese proverb Kaji is a blacksmith-gunsmith, "sword-forging", and the people of this profession in feudal Japan were the only ones who stood on the social ladder along with the samurai. Although de jure they belonged to artisans, and those in Japanese

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As a friend of Alexander Pushkin, he invented the world's first telegraph, the electric mine detonation and the most secure cipher. Creator of the world's first telegraph code and the best one in the 19th century

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In the 1560s, the general situation on the border forced the Moscow sovereign to force a solution to the conflict with the Kazan Khanate. The Kazan Khanate was a fairly large Muslim state, formed as a result of the collapse of the Golden Horde. It should be noted that the territory

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“Only on his deathbed did repentance come to Henry Ford. When, at the end of World War II, he watched a film about the atrocities of the Nazis in the concentration camps, faced with the monstrous consequences of anti-Semitism, he had a blow - the last and the hardest …”This is an excerpt from an article by Robert

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Napoleon on the battlefield of Preussisch Eylau. Painting by Antoine-Jean Gros. In the lower right corner, Pierre François Percy is bandaging a Russian grenadier. Larrey The medical service, like the infantry, cavalry, and artillery, had its own heroes. The first of these was undoubtedly Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842)

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Based on the experience of fighting the armed opposition units and studying the captured documents in 1984. Excerpts from documents developed in 1985 by the headquarters of the 40th Army. In this memo for the officers of the OK SV, the style and spelling of the original source are fully preserved

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Fedor Nikiforovich Plevako was born on April 25, 1842 in the city of Troitsk. His father, Vasily Ivanovich Plevak, was a member of the Troitsk customs, court adviser from the Ukrainian nobles. He had four children, two of whom died as infants. With Fyodor's mother, serf Kirghiz Ekaterina

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After the overthrow of Abdul-Latif Khan (Kazan Khan in 1497-1502) and his exile in Beloozero, his elder brother Muhammad-Amin (ruled in 1484-1485, 1487-1496 and 1502-1518) was re-seated on the Kazan throne. ). He, despite the regular assistance from Moscow, which he was provided with for the capture

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Storm! The storm is coming soon! It is the brave Petrel soaring proudly between the lightning over the roaring sea with anger; then the prophet of victory shouts: - Let the storm break out stronger! Bitter. Song about the Petrel. On June 18, 1938, 80 years ago, the great writer Maxim Gorky passed away. Great Russian and then Soviet

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“Everything for the front! Everything for victory!”, The slogan of the Communist Party, formulated in the Directive of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of June 29, 1941 … and proclaimed on July 3, 1941 on the radio in a speech by the Chairman of the State Defense Committee I.V. Stalin. Expressed the essence of the program that was developed by the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and the Soviet government for

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On August 6, the Russian Federation celebrates the Day of Railway Troops. This holiday was first established by the corresponding Decree of the President of the Russian Federation in 1996, and in 2006 a new Decree of the President of the Russian Federation was adopted "On the establishment of professional holidays and memorable days in the Armed

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Everyone knows that US Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were killed in assassination attempts. However, few people know that another American warrior president ended his life in this way: we are talking about the 25th US President William McKinley. Consider McKinley's path to the presidency

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Armored trains in the Caucasus At the end of 1914, the construction of four armored trains for the Caucasian army began in the Tiflis workshops. Each of them consisted of a semi-armored steam locomotive, two four-axle armored cars and an armored car for ammunition. Between themselves, they had a number of differences in type

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In November 1914, German units broke through the Russian North-Western Front in the Lodz area. To cover the Warsaw-Skarnevitsa railway, by order of the head of the 6th Siberian Infantry Division, the 4th Railway Battalion hastily equipped an armored train. Time was running out, so for him

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O knights, get up, the hour has come! You have shields, steel helmets and armor. Your dedicated sword is ready to fight for the faith. Give strength to me, oh God, for new glorious slaughter. I, beggar, will take a rich booty there. I don’t need gold and I don’t need land, but maybe I

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How is it, friends? A man looks at the cherry blossoms and a long sword on his belt! Mukai Kyorai (1651 - 1704). Translation by V. Markova Samurai were instilled from childhood not only loyalty to military duty and taught all the subtleties of the military craft, but also they were taught relaxation, because a person cannot only do this and

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The Munich agreement, it would seem, has long and reliably been studied up and down. Meanwhile, it is considered to be an agreement between the monolithic West and Nazi Germany, while in the last part we established that the West was in fact fragmented and its leaders persecuted their own, and diametrically

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Already at the beginning of August 1914, in the workshops of the city of Tarnopol, the 9th railway battalion, operating on the South-Western Front, built the first Russian armored train. Initially, it consisted of an Austro-Hungarian steam locomotive and three carriages - two machine-gun and one gun. Its armament consisted of

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The intelligentsia in Russia, like the bulk of the ruling elite and the educated part of the population, was liberal, pro-Western. She was brought up on Western ideas. Some admired liberalism and democracy, others - socialism (Marxism). As a result, the intelligentsia in its mass

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100 years ago, on March 2 (15), 1917, the Russian Emperor Nicholas II abdicated the throne. The Tsar's court historiographer, General Dmitry Dubensky, who constantly accompanied him on trips during the war, commented on the abdication: