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Name Stalinogorsk now few will say that the majority of citizens of our country. Even many residents of the city of Novomoskovsk (especially young people), hardly know what exactly their city was called from 1933 to 1966, the first year. His appearance Stalinogorsk due to construction of the chemical plant. Due to the impact of this building on a place of village of Bobriki and were city.

The August 2008 war with Georgia became one of the most notable events of the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev. According to the official Russian version, the reason for the conflict was the Georgian attack on South Ossetia. Georgian military immediately after start of the operation said that they wanted to "stop shooting", leading from the side of Tskhinvali, in the Georgian villages. What actually provoked the war?

According to the UN Charter the use of outer space for military purposes is strictly prohibited. However, in past projects the establishment of military bases of space appeared on both sides of the ocean. One of the first such projects was the so-called space cannon Hitler.

Looking at pictures of this sweet smiling woman, it's hard to believe that it was nicknamed the "witch of Buchenwald" and "Frau Shade" and that she is guilty of sophisticated mockeries and murder of tens of thousands of people. But nevertheless it is so.

Soviet Marshal Pavel Batitsky, even in old age impressed interlocutors with his "thunderous voice". They called him the "best commander of the defense" in the country's history. In 1953, Batitsky played a prominent role in the liquidation of Lavrenty Beria – he was executed by sentence of the chief of the NKVD, for which he later was favored by Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Much less is known about the merits of Batitsky in the period of the great Patriotic war – for example, that a star of Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded to him in 1965, Marshall was to receive back in 1943.