History & Persons

Alexander Palladin20.11.2024

Usually, they say that ice hockey in our country was born on December 22, 1946, when the first USSR championship was launched. However, the first hockey match in Russia took place in 1898 when the “Nevsky Club of Cricket, Football, Hockey and Tennis”, formed by British workers in St. Petersburg, played against the “St. Petersburg […]

Alexander Palladin19.11.2024

120 years ago, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and by the end of February, 1904, some 50 foreign correspondents, mainly English and American, arrived in Japan. Among them was Jack London, one of the most popular foreign writers in Russia, where his novels and stories were printed in more than 77 million copies. At school […]

Alexander Palladin18.11.2024

When the Great Patriotic War began, my father was drafted into the Red Army, but was discharged due to a congenital heart defect and had to return to his civic journalistic duties in Moscow. In July 1941, he took my elder brother Valery to Skopin where our grandmother Lidya lived in the midst of the […]

Yuri Chekalin16.11.2024

This dog was picked up in July 1883 by sailors from the cruiser Africa in the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Returning from a long voyage from the Pacific Ocean, the sailors presented the Kamchatka Laika to Emperor Alexander III. They named the dog Kamchatka. The white and tan Laika Kamchatka became a faithful companion of the […]

Alexander Palladin14.11.2024

Pavel Datsyuk, Russia’s Master of Sports Emeritus, Olympic champion, winner of the World and Russian Championships, double Stanley Cup winner, has become yet another, eleventh representative of Russian hockey in Toronto based Hockey Hall of Fame. And in the beginning was Anatoli Vladimirovich Tarasov. He was the first Russian — and European, too — to […]

Yuri Chekalin13.11.2024

Yoshiko Okada is a graceful and refined beauty with an unyielding character who escaped from Japan to the Soviet Union. A Moscow radio announcer, a star of many films and plays, an idol of millions of viewers. This extraordinary woman was born on April 14, 1902 in Hiroshima to a journalist’s family. Since childhood, she […]

Alexander Palladin12.11.2024

My father, Aleksandr Ivanovich Palladin, had a calling for writing since his youth. At the age of 16, having started working as a turner at the largest Podolsk Mechanical Plant (PMZ) in the Moscow region, he began publishing essays about the best workers in the plant’s newspaper “Nasha Pravda” and joined a literary society formed […]

Alexander Palladin09.11.2024

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One In 1984, a year after the events of the previous article, Yakovlev released a book “From Truman to Reagan”, in which he “lashed” the master of the White House and his team with the expressions retired after the death of Stalin, the likes of “Clique of Reagan”. Another year passed, and, […]

Alexander Palladin08.11.2024

“A few years ago, a former American intelligence officer whom I knew well, having arrived in Moscow, during dinner at a restaurant on Ostozhenka, said: ‘We know that you have had successes that you have every right to be proud of. But time will pass, and you will gasp (if this is declassified) at what […]

Alexander Palladin06.11.2024

My speech at Richard Bland College, Petersburg, Va. March 20, 1985. “Mr. Chairman, esteemed hosts, ladies and gentlemen! As little as I might know about your country and your mores, I do know that a person in my present position is expected to start with а joke. I feel being under special pressure of this […]

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History & Persons

In The Beginning Was Marshal Voroshilov

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought

Skopin Is Where General Guderian’s Army Was Stopped

Royal Laika “Kamchatka”

In The Beginning Was Anatoli Tarasov

Tokyo Rose of Russia

Guilty Without Actual Guilt

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part Two

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One

The Soviet Newsman Speaks in the USA

In The Beginning Was Marshal Voroshilov

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought

Skopin Is Where General Guderian’s Army Was Stopped

Royal Laika “Kamchatka”