This S-56 submarine stands on the Vladivostok embankment. It's a guard submarine decorated with the Order of the Red
Banner, the Soviet diesel-electric one of the WWII time. Its captain became the hero of the Soviet Union.
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Tank KV-1 raised from the bottom of the Neva river in November, 16th, 2011 is being restored now in the Museum of the Battle
for Leningrad. After the restoration it will participate in historical reconstructions and military parades.
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The plane performed the forced landing on the ice of Krivoye lake in November, 25th, 1943. The pilot and the wounded shooter survived, but the ice didn't
bear the weight of the plane and it the Il-2 sank on the bottom of the lake. Now it's going to be sent to Novosibirsk for restorarion.
It's still unknown for certain if a bunker of Hitler really existed under Smolensk. The bunker represents a concrete cubic construction
where only several persons can be in. Nearby used to be a railway. The road to the bunker goes from the Vitebsk highway.
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T-34 was made on a basis of a battle tank A-32 and accepted for service in 1939. The construction of this vehicle was a quantum jump in the Russian
and world tank-building. For the first time it successfully combined antiprojectile armor, powerful weapons and reliable undercarriage.
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The legendary ice-breaker "Baikal" was considered to be the second largest and most powerful ice-breaker while its construction. By the end of the XIX century they could not end the construction of the Siberian railway, Baikal was the breakpoint. So in 1883 Julius Witte, the secretary of finance, offered to arrange ship crossing over Baikal. In
1885 they decided to build an ice-breaking ferry. 12 plants participated in the construction: Soviet and foreign ones. The ice-breaker travelled much from place to place being tested, assembled and dissassembled... In fact it was mainly built by constructors from St. Petersburg. They used the best Martic steel to build it.
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We are at the Central Armed Forces Museum of Moscow. Where else one can see so much military equipment in one place? The museum has been existing since 1919, in the new
building - since 1965. It's one of the largest historic and military country museums. More or less modern equipment was brought here 15-20 years for the last time.
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On the 3rd of June they held a reconstruction of Russian Civil War in
Chernogolovka, the Moscow region. Look at some photos of the event.
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May, 1855, Balaklava, the Crimea. Today it is the place to rest for many people from all over Ukraine and the CIS. But in May, 1855 it was different. Guns of the English ships were firing at the Russian positions: the Crimean war between Russia from one side and allied forces of England,
France and Turkey from another one. Much has been written about the deeds of heroic Sevastopol. But few know that the Balaklava battle and the following defence of Sevastopol became the place for the first military photo report made by one English photographer Roger Fenton.
