Hero

Yuri Chekalin06.10.2025

The story of peasant girl Roza Shanina from the Arkhangelsk village of Yedma foreshadowed nothing great. The daughter of a milkmaid and a lumberjack, Rosa grew up in a modest village surrounded by forests. Little did her fellow villagers know that their young Rosa would go on to become known as the “Invisible Terror of […]

Yuri Chekalin08.08.2025

Vasily Martekhov had an interesting fate. Vasily was born into a family of Russian immigrants at the Bukron mine in the American state of Ohio and became the fifth child. By birthright, the boy received US citizenship. His father, a miner, worked 12 hours a day, but received negligible amounts. The Martekhovs lived on a […]

Andrey Vedyaev30.07.2025

Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Stanislav Alekseevich Vaupshasov is one of those people whose lives were spent in campaigns and battles, among forests, hills and mountain passes, behind the front line and, in his own words, at dangerous crossroads. He was born on July 27, 1899 in the town of Gruzdziai, 19 km from […]

Egor Yakovlev27.04.2025

April 25, 1883 Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was born one of the first marshals of the Soviet Union, three times Hero of the Soviet Union, holder of the St. George Cross of all degrees. Semyon Budyonny came from a poor peasant family. He was born in the territory of the Don Host (now Rostov Oblast). […]

Yuri Chekalin15.01.2025

Fyodor Fyodorovich Serpilin, the main character of Konstantin Simonov’s trilogy “The Living and the Dead”, was a composite image. In him, one could guess the features and destinies of the legendary generals-commanders Alexander Gorbatov and Ivan Grishin, but the main prototype was Colonel Semyon Fyodorovich Kutepov, whom the writer Simonov (at that time – a […]

Yuri Chekalin17.12.2024

Amet-Khan Sultan was born in Crimea on October 25, 1920, to a Lak father and a Crimean Tatar mother. Like many young people of the 1930s, he attended an aeroclub, which determined his future fate. Having been drafted into the army in 1939, Amet-Khan was sent to the Kachin Aviation School, from where he graduated […]

Klim Zhukov08.09.2024

On September 5, 1919, Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev, a Red Army commander and participant in the First World War and the Civil War, was killed. He was awarded three St. George’s Crosses and one medal in the First World War. He was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner (1919). Chapayev was killed as a […]

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 […]

Invisible Terror of East Prussia

The Only American Hero of the Soviet Union

Star of a Chekist

About the Revolution Hero And Marshal Budyonny

Who Was The Prototype Of Brigade Commander Serplin?

Amet-Khan Sultan: the Air Ace Who Bacame the Two Times Hero of the Soviet Union

Life and Death of Vasily Chapayev

Yuri Gagarin saves Richard Sorge from oblivion

Invisible Terror of East Prussia

Life and Legacy of Richard III of York

From Multi-Party Russia to One-Party State

Moving the Capital: Global Experience and Prospects for Russia