[IMG] La-5. I have always thought that La-5 and La-7 were among the most effective planes during WWII, if not the most effective. Their speed and...
[IMG] Aircraft Carrier "Varyag" was built in my native city, Nikolayev, Ukraine. The work was started in the Soviet Union. However, that aircraft...
Richard Sorge. Born in 1895, in the Russian Empire, a member of the German minority in Russia, he moved back to Germany with the whole family in...
The capital of Ukraine (then, just another big city in USSR), 1942, German occupation of Kiyiv. The football (soccer team) of "Luftwaffe" has offered...
It is a Russian movie about a Russo-Turkish War of 1877. It contains a story of a character who is fictional. However, he had a real prototype in...
Here, I will try to post something every day. I've decided to open a thread about each day in the Russian Military History. Or, at least, whenever...
I have just entered the site, and I will write a lot more, but just wanted to start with a little tribute to my Grandma, a veteran of World War II...
Hello, everyone! I am a Canadian citizen with a Russian background. I'll be posting on various military topics. The main ones that interest me are,...
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