Breaking

In July 1942, the Arctic waters was one of the most tragic episodes in the history of supplies to the Soviet allies during the Second world war – the death of convoy PQ-17 which was supposed to deliver to the Soviet Union a large military cargo under lend-lease. Was his death inevitable? Or it could have been prevented if not for an error command? Today this event is dedicated to the many historical works which leave no doubt that the cause of the tragedy was the wrong calculation of the first Lord of the British Admiralty.

The Solovetsky special purpose camp (SLON) – the first labor camp in the USSR. Over 10 years of existence through it passed tens of thousands of people. In 1933, he was officially abolished, however, until 1939, on site continued to operate the establishment with the acronym STON – Solovki special prison.

Surviving documents studied by historians, confirm that one of the most famous spies of the world Mata Hari was madly in love with a Russian officer, Vadim Maslov, even though he was younger than she by almost half and, apparently, so strong mutual feelings towards the mistress not experienced.

The name of the people of Mordva, Mordvins or was given to them by neighbors. Among the Mordvins, it is never been used. Mordvinians anciently divided into two large, close to each other, group (some people consider them separate ethnic groups) – Moksha and Erzya. Until the late nineteenth century ethnographers allocated within the Mordovians two small subethnos – taruhan and Karatau.

Rosenbergs became the only civilian executed for espionage during the cold war. Unfortunately, they fell victim to confrontation between two mutually hostile powers, the USA and the USSR.