Yuri Chekalin

Yuri Chekalin01.04.2024

“When you’re about to die, call your mother!” Toshiro Mifune’s family moved from Japan to Manchuria long before the start of Japanese colonization. The fact is that his parents were missionaries, deeply religious people, and his father, Tokuzo Mifune, was not only a businessman and owner of a photo studio, but also a preacher in […]

Yuri Chekalin24.12.2023

As the year comes to an end, we want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope you have enjoyed reading our articles, blog, and other creative content that we have generated for you. We appreciate your feedback, suggestions, and requests that have helped us improve our skills […]

Yuri Chekalin27.10.2023

“In the English city of Porton, in the Canadian Suffield, there are laboratories in which the causative agents of the most terrible epidemics that have ever struck humanity are stored. During the war, I had the opportunity to meet with a German doctor, a notorious Nazi, who cynically stated that it was necessary to destroy […]

Yuri Chekalin25.09.2023

Japan, at first glance, is some kind of an incredible tangle of paradoxes. One first impression is enough. For instance, how is it possible that although people get to see little of anything other than work, working 70 and sometimes 100 hours a month, and literally die at work (there is even a special word […]

Yuri Chekalin21.08.2023

In Japan, many things are deeply symbolic. For example, every dish that is served on the New Year’s table has its own meaning. Therefore, it is easy to guess that gifts also have a hidden meaning in this country. And if you present a gift to a person older than you (by rank or age), […]

Yuri Chekalin25.07.2023

One day at sunset in 2000, the expeditor Vyacheslav Prokhorenko found the remains of a soldier next to the German fortifications on the Sinyavinsky Heights in the Leningrad Region. Buttonholes of a junior lieutenant, binoculars, a pistol. And in the pocket of the decayed tunic there is a medallion with a note. They unwind a […]

Yuri Chekalin07.07.2023

The Assumption, Archangel and Annunciation Cathedrals, the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, the Grand Duke’s Palace, the walls and towers of the Kremlin — all these structures were erected in a little over thirty years, when Moscow and the whole country were actively built in the 15th century. As a result, the monumental architectural and […]

Yuri Chekalin22.06.2023

Last year marked the 60th anniversary of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin’s visit to Japan. Gagarin had not only visited this exotic country, but also returned the name of our legendary intelligence officer Richard Sorge from there. How did it happen? To the Land of the Rising Sun Yu.A. Gagarin flew on May 21, 1962, together with […]

Yuri Chekalin08.05.2023

History has a funny habit of repeating itself on a new coil of its spiral. As the classics said, first as a tragedy, then as a farce. History often surprises us with such zigzags. Let’s take a look at the times of Peter the Great. To persuade Mazepa to treason, Charles XII of Sweden sent […]

Yuri Chekalin13.04.2023

“Where does all this madness about hara-kiri, bushido come from…” /From one Russian radio broadcast./ “… We must win honestly, We must live in the bright light, They will compose songs about us, Heaven will be hot…” “Sport Heroes” “…Who knows what awaits us? Who knows what will happen? And will be strong And […]

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Yuri Chekalin

For Toshiro Mifune’s Birthday

Dear Readers,

Bridge of Spies — the Whole Story

How to Be Born in Japan and Survive

Gifts Not to Give in Japan

Secrets of the Moscow Metro

How did the Kremlin become red?

Yuri Gagarin saves Richard Sorge from oblivion

Zigzag of History

Seppuku and Death in Japan

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 2

The Ideal Meal Plan

In The Beginning Was Marshal Voroshilov

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought