Photo credit: waralbum.ru The surrender by Germany in 1945 in four days of the legendary fortified city of Konigsberg became a national disaster for the Germans, believes Nikita Buranov, an expert of the Russian Military Historical Society. By April 9, the Red Army triumphantly...
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The expedition of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO) discovered six ships that sank during the First World War in the White Sea, TASS reports. According to the scientific director of the expedition, Andrei Lukoshkov, in total, the specialists of the Center for...
On April 4, 1945 Bratislava was completely liberated by the Red Army from Nazi occupation.
On April 2, Soviet troops broke through the German external defense of the city during the Bratislava-Brnovsk operation, under the command of...
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The Center for Linguistic Education of the Prosveshcheniye Publishers has published collections of teaching materials in foreign languages. Electronic publications included articles on the exploits of Soviet soldiers on the fields of the Great Patriotic War,...
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The historical and educational Victory Roads action has been adopted for the online format by the efforts of the Russian Military Historical Society and the Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in...
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The musical and poetic Geography of the Great Victory flash mob has been launched by Russian compatriots living abroad. This was reported by the cultural association of Russian-speaking compatriots on its...
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The Russian Ministry of Defense has posted freely declassified documents regarding the Yalta Conference and preparations for it. The section was opened on the website of the Ministry of Defense on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the meeting in...
An exhibition dedicated to the Battle of Stalingrad is being prepared in France, TASS reports. It will open on April 25 in Normandy. The exposition will take place at the memorial in honor of the landings of Allied forces.
According to the head of the Volgograd branch of the Russian...
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A model of the house where the Russian emperor Peter the Great stayed during his first visit to Holland in 1697 was presented at the museum of Zandam. The replica was created by carpenter and restorer Peter Hofeling, who used old drawings to bring...
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Admiral Kolchak archive is sold in auction on Novemberm, 21 in Paris, TASS reports. Drouot auction house has held the auction. The total price of the lots sold exceeded 3 mln euro. According to the auction house representative Mathilde Fennebresque, the collectors were excited to see on...
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Message left by Soviet soldiers was found by Polish workers in Elblag located in the northern part of the country. “May, 9th – the end of the war” message written on the wall was found during the post office reconstruction. Local administration is to...
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The Paris auction house Drouot is going to sell the archive of Admiral Kolchak, according to TASS. It was kept in the family of the recently deceased grandson of the admiral. Friends decided to put up for sale the preserved documents, including photographs, letters, notes and much more.
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The fate of the Soviet and Italian partisans, who fought side by side during the Second World War, was described in the book by the Italian writer Marta Tondjani called At the behest of the heart. Apuan Resistance and the Contribution of Soviet Partisans. The presentation...
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A study of the DNA of the remains found in Smolensk proved that they belonged to Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, a friend and closest ally of the Emperor Napoleon. This was told by Pierre Malinovsky, who heads the Foundation for the Development of Russian-French Historical...
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Hessian Princesses. Traditions of Upbringing and Education in Russia and Germany. 1840-1918 Exhibition began work in Wiesbaden as part of the 22nd Elisaveta-Sergius readings, dedicated to the 155th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna. The exhibition tells about the peculiarities of upbringing and...
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The expedition of Russian and Italian scientists to study the condition of the remains of medieval fortresses and other buildings preserved on the territory of Crimea has come to an end. In 2020, work will continue on the study of monuments, restoration of their former appearance in 3D and the...
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The 22nd Elisabeth-Sergius Readings, dedicated to the 155th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, will consider traditions of upbringing and education adopted in Russia and Germany in the 19th and 20th...
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When he was about 10 years old, Devadatta Rajadhyaksha read the book The Adventures of Dennis, by Victor Dragunsky. Rajadhyaksha was mesmerized by naughty little Dennis, who kept grass snakes, lizards, and frogs in his pockets, made funny faces in front of the mirror, and liked to hop and skip. The book was originally written in Russian, but Rajadhyaksha read the book in his mother tongue, Marathi, as Dennis Chya Goshti. Rajadhyaksha is now in his forties, and the book is still a favorite. Thanks to nostalgia, the literary legacy of the USSR has a long afterlife! 
“Zhiguli” on avenues, “Volga” on streets 14.04.2021
Soviet cars are greeted with welcoming car klaxons honking on the streets of New York, Berlin or Tokyo. It's a long time since German students bought Zhiguli cars, and French farmers acquired Lada Niva. As of today, collectors are chasing Volga, Pobeda (Victory) and Moskvich (Muscovite), which are exhibited in museums and in public squares. For many foreigners, Soviet cars are curiosity and novelty, but for Russian compatriots they symbolize nostalgia and connection with their homeland. 
Lolita and Cosmonaut 11.04.2021
Every year in April we commemorate the glorious day of April 12, 1961. It was the day when Yuri Gagarin, the first man of the new space era, was brought to near-earth orbit by the Vostok-1 spacecraft. The flight lasted just a little over an hour and a half, but it turned Gagarin into a figure that has been admired throughout the world ever since. The feat accomplished by Gagarin 60 years ago inspires us to recall the incredible connection of his story with Lolita Torres - a singer and one of the top actresses from Argentina's golden era of cinema.
Marathon on the ice of Lake Baikal at -29°C 01.04.2021
In 2021, the Lake Baikal Ice Marathon was held on Baikal for the 17th time. The reporter of the Dutch newspaper de Volksrant decided to test himself and overcome 42 kilometers at -29 degrees Celsius and in a scorching wind. He was joined by other 60 athletes. 
General Nikolai Berzarin, the first post-war commandant of Berlin, was the very person that Berlin and its residents literally owed their lives to. But today very few people remember this feat of his. Ekaterina Dettmering, our compatriot from Germany, is the mind behind The Last Feat of Nikolai Berzarin project. And today the exhibition about this extraordinary person moves from online to offline.