The story about the “futuristic present” draws the reader’s attention to the socio-psychological nature of the astronaut’s personality. On their fictional ex...

The fifth adventure of Captain William Laurence and his extraordinary fighting dragon, Temeraire, as they travel from the shores of Britain to China and A...

There are no fictional characters in this book, no fictitious situations. This is a documentary report from 1941, a detailed account of the famous Yelninsky ...

The author, a famous children's writer and participant in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), tells primary schoolchildren about its main battles. The six b...

In the USSR this grandiose battle was called the Korsun-Shevchenko operation, and in Germany “Kesselschlacht bei Tscherkassy” (“battle in the cauldron near C...

Paradoxical as it may seem, the most victorious period of the Great Patriotic War was 1943–1945. - became the most mythologized. Moreover, in contrast to the...

Historical adventure drama, where distant flashes of Russian history coexist with the military exploits of the Moscow army in battles with the Tatars, Turks,...

Starting with the disaster in the Baltic states in the summer of 1941 and until the end of 1942, the Red Army lost virtually all the battles on the North-Wes...

At the end of September 1939, Bialystok, Grodno, Kovel, Baranovichi and other once Polish and Belarusian cities unexpectedly became Soviet for their inhabita...

At an international gymnastics competition, a Czech athlete unexpectedly refused to perform. Instead, the team put up their doctor, having previously subject...

She ruled Great Britain for 64 years, which went down in history as the Victorian era. She has been called "the greatest woman of all time." But simple femal...