History 2024, November

The poster for the film "Golem", 1915 All kinds of golems, along with many other characters generated by the folklore of this or that nation or created by the fantasy of mystically minded writers, can now be safely considered a phenomenon of modern culture. Today the golems are

Quiet street of Trunilovskaya Sloboda, an old linden alley, a path paved with figured stone. The buildings around are old, historical - the governor's house, the diocesan school for women, the provincial district court, the house of the writer Sergei Aksakov … Half a block before the descent of the hills to the Belaya River

In the previous article, we talked about how Nazi war criminals, after the defeat of Germany in World War II, found refuge in the countries of the New World - from Paraguay and Chile to the United States. The second direction along which the Nazis flew from Europe was “the road to

On May 9, our country celebrated the 74th anniversary of the Great Victory. With a colossal exertion of forces, multimillion casualties, the military talent of Soviet commanders and the immense courage of ordinary soldiers, the Soviet Union managed to win the war against the most dangerous and cruel enemy. Hitlerite Germany

The 1914 campaign on the Serbian front, despite the superiority of the Austro-Hungarian troops, ended with the victory of the Serbian army. The activity and determination of the Serbian army allowed the Serbian command to achieve decisive success over the Austro-Hungarian armies. After that, the Austro-Hungarian troops until

The last third. Painting by contemporary Spanish artist A. Ferrer-Dalmau Louis XIII was ill. Around his box in the Saint-Germain castle, the country residence of the kings, doctors fussed about, the courtiers were in thought, servants ran silently. Whispering the name of Vincent de Paul to each other

The Great Battle of Kursk began 70 years ago. The Battle of the Kursk Bulge is one of the most important battles of the Second World War in terms of its scope, forces and means involved, tension, results and military-strategic consequences. The Great Battle of Kursk lasted 50 incredibly

Fight in the Prokhorovka area On July 12, 1943, one of the largest battles of armored forces in world history took place on the southern face of the Kursk Bulge in the Voronezh front zone, near the Prokhorovka station and the Oktyabrsky state farm. In a fierce battle, elite tank formations of the German Empire and

This article is an abridged version of the chapter "With swords on tanks" from A. Isaev's book "Ten Myths of the Second World War" The orgy of humiliation of cavalry reached sheer ecstasy in the 90s. Ideological blinders fell, and everyone who was not lazy saw it necessary to demonstrate their "professionalism" and

They left their homes in Central Asia to fight against the German army. Later, dressed in rags, they were taken prisoner and taken to a concentration camp in the Netherlands. Few of those living today remember the 101 Uzbeks killed in a forest near the Dutch Amersfoort in 1942. The memory of them

The withdrawal of our troops in 1944 to the Baltic Sea and the withdrawal of Finland from the war radically improved the position of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (KBF). He left the Gulf of Finland into the Baltic Sea. The German command tried with all its might to secure their transport sea

In the mid-eighties of the twentieth century, some materials of the US Department of the Navy, which had been in departmental storage for many years, were transferred to the collection of the US National Archives and became available. Among them, of particular interest are documents from the intelligence service of the ministry

In the summer of 1803, two Russian sloops "Nadezhda" and "Neva" set sail under the command of Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern and Yuri Fedorovich Lisyansky. Their route boggled the imagination - it was laid, as it was customary to say at that time, "a circle of light". The sailing of these two Russian ships was

From the first days of the war, the ships of the Soviet Navy took part in combat operations. They were engaged in solving problems of supplying troops with military equipment, food, fuel, took out the wounded and civilians, equipment of enterprises, landed amphibious assault forces, worked as floating hospitals and

The life and military deeds of one of the talented students of the Suvorov school, the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, Matvey Ivanovich Platov, represent a remarkable page in military history and still serve as lessons of courage, patriotism and high military skill. Matvey Ivanovich

The Great Patriotic War introduced a lot of new things into the development of issues of organizing and conducting combat operations of units of the country's Air Defense Forces in the defense of railway communications. Despite the surprise of Germany's attack on the USSR, the air defense forces managed to withstand a powerful blow from the enemy air force and provided

The origin and development of radar refers to a later pre-war period in comparison with radio communication. And, nevertheless, the armies of the countries of the fascist bloc, as well as England, the USA and the Soviet Union, by the beginning of World War II were armed with radars for various purposes, which provided in the first

During the Great Patriotic War, the Hydrographic Service of the Northern Fleet, headed by Captain 1st Rank G.I. Shadrin, solved a wide range of tasks: setting minefields, sweeping mines, landing assault forces, providing firing of coastal and naval artillery, and performing military pilotage

At the present time, when there is an active revision of history, publications and statements have appeared that distort the nature of Soviet-Japanese relations during the Second World War, in which there is a noticeable desire to present Japan's foreign policy as peaceful, and aggressive plans for preparing for a war against

Literally from the first days of the occupation, the partisans of Chernihiv region began active operations, helping the units of the Red Army. So, the partisans of the Reimentarovsky detachment under the command of B.S. The tunic provided assistance to the Soviet troops in intelligence activities and the fight against fascist agents. Early 1942

During the Patriotic War, our aviation accumulated valuable experience in assisting troops in crossing large rivers and holding captured bridgeheads. Front-line aviation had to operate in a variety of situations, when the troops began to force water obstacles with the beginning of the offensive, in

The entry of Soviet troops into the territory of Belarus in the fall of 1943, their exit to the basing areas of large partisan groups, to the partisan edges and zones, immediately affected the tactics of the partisans. The Belarusian headquarters of the partisan movement (BSHPD), planning the actions of partisan formations

The experience of guerrilla warfare in the fascist rear has convincingly shown that planning the combat activities of partisan formations was one of the main factors of its high efficiency. Partisans usually achieved the greatest successes in those cases when the efforts of individual detachments and brigades

In the eventful and famous history of England in the second half of the 16th century, the name of John Davis, an outstanding English navigator and explorer, for many years was in the shadows in comparison with the representatives of the galaxy of "sea dogs" D. Hawkins, F. Drake, W. Raleigh and polar explorers G. Hudson

In 1941-1942, the "Persian Corridor", uniting the sea, air and land routes of lend-lease supplies to the USSR, played an important role in establishing military-economic cooperation between the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition. It has become one of the most important Lend-Lease supply routes from the United States and

Ensuring the survivability of troops during the Second World War had a significant impact on the success of the ongoing hostilities. This is one of the most important and rather complex problems of the art of war; its role has grown even more with the advent of nuclear and high-precision weapons. In a broad sense, survivability is

During the exercises of the air forces of the Moscow Military District, for the first time in the world on August 2, 1930, a small parachute assault force and supplies for it were successfully dropped into the rear of the "enemy". This date is considered to be the birthday of the Soviet airborne troops. In subsequent

Airborne troops were deployed on a massive scale on the battlefields of World War II. They were used in all theaters of military operations, both in small groups and in large formations for a variety of purposes: from committing sabotage to independent decisions

As you know, on September 4, 1944, Finland withdrew from the war. By that time, the front line ran from Malaya Volokovaya Bay along the isthmus of the Sredny Peninsula and further - from Bolshaya Zapadnaya Litsa Bay to Chapr and Koshkaavr lakes. Here, stopped back in 1941, the Nazis erected a powerful

During the Second World War, the domestic armed forces acquired a wealth of experience in conducting operations in mountainous areas. The battle for the Caucasus, battles in the Crimea, the Carpathians, the Arctic, on the territory of Yugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Far East became a confirmation of the possibility of successful

The history of Latvia in the first half of the 20th century, before its incorporation into the USSR, is usually divided into two strikingly different periods. The first is the period of a parliamentary republic. The second is the years of the fascist dictatorship. These periods are separated by one day - May 15, 1934. More precisely, the night from 15 to 16 May, when

During the years of the Great Patriotic War, special attention was paid to the organization of reliable and continuous interaction between ground attack aviation (SHA) and ground forces. Which is quite logical, since the pilots of the ShA made almost 80% of the sorties with the aim of destroying and suppressing objects located on

The Kronstadt fortress and the city of Kronstadt, as you know, originate from the Kronshlot fort, founded on the island of Kotlin in 1704. Since then, the defense of the capital has been one of the main concerns of the king. For this, a Russian fleet was created in the Baltic and the seaside fortress of Kronstadt. About this fortress

In January 1944, in the zone of the 14th Infantry Division (14th Army of the Karelian Front), which was defending in the area of Bolshaya Zapadnaya Litsa, the activity of enemy reconnaissance increased, and the enemy's movement along the roads increased. At the same time, the operation of several new radio transmitters was detected. For

The cruiser "Aurora" is rightfully called the number one ship of the Russian Navy. The cruiser is a participant in the Battle of Tsushima, the 1917 revolution and the Great Patriotic War (the most important events in the history of the country of the 20th century). It would seem that everyone and everyone knows about the life of this ship. But

The threat hanging over the groupings of fascist troops in the North Caucasus and Crimea forced the German command to hastily strengthen them. In such a situation, the Black Sea communications acquired particular importance for the enemy. In 1943, on the lines connecting the ports occupied by him, in a month passed from

110 years ago, in July 1906, there were uprisings in Sveaborg and Kronstadt. They were attended by thousands of soldiers and sailors. The garrison of the Sveaborg fortress, located on 13 islands at the entrance to the Helsingfors harbor, numbered about 6 thousand sailors and soldiers. Among the artillerymen, miners and during

During the Great Patriotic War, one of the tasks of the fleet was to support the coastal flanks of ground forces with naval and coastal artillery. Huge destructive power, long firing range, the ability of naval artillery to move in a short time for significant

This transport was the only ship that survived in the Tsushima battle who managed to escape internment. During the fierce battle, the unarmed transport managed to escape death and break away from pursuit. In November 1905, he returned to his homeland, delivering 341 people rescued from

The conquest of the territory of the Soviet Arctic occupied one of the important places in the fascist plan of war with our country. The strategic goal of the German offensive in the North was the capture of the Kirov railway, the city of Murmansk with its ice-free port, the Polyarny naval base, the Sredniy and Rybachy peninsulas