USSR

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 […]

Alexander Palladin12.12.2024

Once in 1974 when I was stationed in Canada, Alexander Yakovlev, our ambassador in that country, shared with me his views on Academician Andrei Sakharov who renewed his public attacks on Kremlin’s policy. Before his assignment in Ottawa Yakovlev worked at Central Committee as the actual head of Agitprop and was quite knowledgeable about the […]

Alexander Palladin11.12.2024

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part I Soviet authorities upheld the decision to declare Nagorski persona non grata. Thus, Melor Georgievich managed to return to the United States only 8 years later, when our country hit Catastroika, as Alexander Zinoviev, Soviet philosopher, writer, and sociologist, branded Perestroika. In 1990, Sturua started […]

Alexander Palladin10.12.2024

10 days before the US presidential election, Izvestia’s film crew sent from Moscow to cover the event was detained at the Washington airport. The Russian reporters had valid entry visas, but their equipment was taken away, and they were interrogated for several hours. Cameraman’s visa was cancelled and he had to return to Moscow. Which […]

Alexander Schmidke06.12.2024

The most exotic units participated in the battles on the Leningrad Front, both in their origin, such as the Norwegians, Spaniards and Flemings, and in their military purpose. Mountain rifle units fought on both sides in the swamps and forests of the Leningrad Region, German airborne troops confronted Soviet soldiers on the Nevsky Pyatachok, and […]

Klim Zhukov04.12.2024

December 1, 1896 was the birthday of Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, a Soviet military leader and statesman. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1939, 1944, 1945, 1956), holder of two Orders of Victory (1944, 1945), six Orders of Lenin (1936, 1939, 1945, 1956, 1966, 1971), and many other Soviet […]

Alexander Palladin03.12.2024

Since 2009, December 1 has been celebrated in Russia as the Hockey Day, commemorating the first national ice hockey championship, lauched in the USSR on December 1, 1946. In our country the Hockey gained popularity so quickly that only 7 years later, on March 7, 1954, the Soviet national team on its very first try […]

Alexander Palladin27.11.2024

In March 1947, a delegation of deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR arrived in London in response to similar visit of English parliamentarians to our country a year before. The Soviet delegation included famous writers like Konstantin Simonov and Alexander Fadeyev, plus future chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Vasily Kuznetsov […]

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 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 […]

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

Perestroika Architect Yakovlev And H-Bomb’s Father Sakharov

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part II

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part I

Unbelievable Tank Rescue At The Leningrad Frontlines

Happy Birthday, Comrade Marshal Zhukov!

“Bobrov and His Team Are True Champions!”

Winston Churchill Through My Father’s Eyes

In The Beginning Was Marshal Voroshilov

Skopin Is Where General Guderian’s Army Was Stopped

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old