History & Persons

Andrey Vedyaev24.07.2026

Sergei Solntsev and Soviet Intelligence during the Battle of Moscow: Intelligence, Resistance, and the Defense of Moscow Introduction On 20 November 1941, Senior Lieutenant of State Security Sergei Ivanovich Solntsev remained behind to cover the withdrawal of his partisan detachment near the village of Andreyevskoye, west of Moscow. Wounded during the engagement, he was captured […]

Yaroslav Listov14.07.2026

80 Years Ago the United States Radioactively Contaminated Vast Areas of the Pacific Ocean. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States did not stop. The next step was to test nuclear weapons at sea. Vice Admiral William H.P.Blandy selected Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as the site. In July 1946, […]

Alexander Palladin09.07.2026

A hundred years ago Armand Hammer, an American businessman, won the trust of Soviet leaders and, for decades, exploited it to his own advantage, skillfully cultivating the image of a loyal and selfless friend of our country. Lots of my fellow citizens, for instance, tend to believe that in 1980 Hammer financed the construction of […]

Yaroslav Listov08.07.2026

One hundred and forty-five years ago, a man was born whose name became legendary even during his lifetime. At full gallop he rides, Bursting into life and immortality— Grigory Kotovsky, rebel and brigade commander, A four-time bearer of high honors. During the revolutionary year of 1905, still unsure of the proper way to fight the […]

Yaroslav Listov06.07.2026

“If We Have to Elect a Body, We’ll Elect a Body”: Yeltsin’s Heart Attack and How the Truth Was Hidden from the Country. On June 26, 1996, one week before the second round of the presidential election, Boris Yeltsin suffered his fifth heart attack of the year—the result of heavy drinking and the “jumping and […]

Vladimir Grigoryan30.06.2026

The Armenian Genocide of 1915 was not a consequence of the First World War—it was one of the reasons the Ottoman Empire entered into the war. I didn’t arrive at this conclusion quickly. For at least twenty years I tried to understand why the Turks embarked on the gamble of joining Germany. One common explanation […]

Egor Yakovlev29.06.2026

Once upon a time, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev invented a smokeless pyrocollodion powder. At the time, European armies were rearming, and the Russian Naval Ministry reasoned that it would be better to have its own smokeless propellant technology than to rely on pyroxylin, which was already being produced at the Okhta Powder Works using French technology […]

Yuri Chekalin21.06.2026

The mass disturbances in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait occurred on November 7, 1963, the 46th anniversary of the October Revolution. At 10:00 a.m., as usual, an official workers’ parade was proceeding through the city’s central square, just as it was throughout the Soviet Union. From the reviewing stand, slogans and praises honoring the Communist […]

Yuri Chekalin18.06.2026

A.R. Dyukov, known on Telegram under the modest nickname “Historian Dyukov,” decided to continue his denunciations of Vladimir Lenin and came up with the following: “I can’t help once again admiring Lenin’s genius. On February 26, 1921, when the country was already in a deep economic disaster and people were supposedly dying of hunger: ‘The […]

Yuri Chekalin12.06.2026

Oda Nobunaga is one of the most influential figures in Japanese history. Living during the turbulent Sengoku, or “Warring States,” period, he began the process of unifying Japan after more than a century of civil conflict. Through military innovation, political vision, and bold leadership, Nobunaga transformed the balance of power in Japan and laid the […]

Behind German Lines

Paradise Blown Apart

The Wheeler-Dealer: Kremlin Leaders’ Favorite Armand Hammer

A Living Legend

How the Truth About Yeltsin Was Hidden from the Country

The Reasons the Ottoman Empire Entered the WW1

The Great Russian Scientist Mendeleev

Code 10-44 for Azerbaijani City of Sumgait on November 6, 1963

Dyukov on Lenin

Oda Nobunaga: The Unifier Who Changed Japan

How a Chemistry Student Defeated the Tsarist Generals

Netanyahu Calls Britain an “Islamic Country with Nuclear Weapons”

Where Is All That American Oil Really Going?

Why We’re a Problem