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In a popular Soviet song about the First cavalry army was sung: "I Remember the dogs-the chieftains./Remember the Polish gentry./Konarmeyskaya our swords". But special words about Ukrainian independence supporters, it was not. This is despite the fact that the 6th infantry division of the army of the Ukrainian national Republic (UNR) was in the summer of 1920 a permanent enemy army Budennogo all the way from the Dnieper to the San. Maybe it's because it is, after all, stopped the advance of the First cavalry?

There are different criteria of superlatives, including in the case when it comes to combat vehicles: the heavy, the most lightweight, the fastest, the long-range, the lifting, the most reliable, most maneuverable... But the MiG-25 is the... "drunken" fighting machine. Well, the "drunk" plane – that's for sure. And now we will understand why.

It took 47 years to the posthumous title of Hero of the Soviet Union rightfully was awarded the participant of the great Patriotic war Lidiya Litvyak. At the same time, a feat accomplished by this young, fragile-looking girl, has surpassed many feats of male heroes.

Night in October 1948 in the capital of the Turkmen SSR was one of the worst disasters in the history of mankind. The fact that the earthquake happened at night, resulted in a huge number of victims. That is why several decades, the tragedy was kept secret.

In recent decades, the climate on our planet is changing rapidly. Seasons are shifting, and rainfall is not where humanity got used to them and adapted. In the Arctic in June is tridtsatigradusnaya heat, and in Moscow at the same time can be a plus 7-10 degrees, and this temperature has become usual in the first half of winter.