Wednesday, February 25, 2026

“Vilyui boilers”: the mystery of the most terrible places of Yakutia

"Vilyui boilers": the mystery of the most terrible places of Yakutia
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The territory, which stretches along the right tributary of the river Vilyui, the Yakuts call the "valley of Death". According to legend, in this place are huge cauldrons, half buried in the ground. Under the original "hemispheres" once spent the night hunters, or lost travelers. However, after many of them fell ill or died, the elders forbade all walking in the "valley".

The death of parachutist Love Berlin, that she promised to Stalin

The death of parachutist Love Berlin, that she promised to Stalin
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To 17 years Love Berlin was an ordinary Soviet girl. She was born in 1915 in Rostov-on-don, and then her family moved to Moscow. The girl grew up sports and went swimming, after school, I went to school at the printing house "Pravda", worked as a typist.

Caste in the post-war Gulag: who were the main competitors of thieves

Caste in the post-war Gulag: who were the main competitors of thieves
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After the great Patriotic war Stalin's camps filled with never-before-seen contingent. The new behavior of the inmates changed the balance of power in the Gulag and ultimately contributed to its downfall. What looked like a post-war "" most influential "kinds" of prisoners?

Sergey Speigelglass: what were executed “personal liquidator” Stalin

Sergey Speigelglass: what were executed "personal liquidator" Stalin
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Sergei Shpigelglasa now some historians and journalists call a private "Inquisitor", Joseph Stalin. Among other things, that Douglas (such was the online alias Shpigelglasa) attributed to participating in operations on liquidation of many of Stalin's enemies. For example, he was involved in the kidnapping of General Miller, the murder of Skoblina, center and Clemente. But despite all his services to the government, in 1941, Douglas was sentenced to death.

UIP-1: how to use a Kalashnikov extinguish fires

UIP-1: how to use a Kalashnikov extinguish fires
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Amazingly, the most popular in the world and the most popular variant of small arms, Kalashnikov (AK), were able to find peaceful uses. The exhibition of 1999, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the outstanding designer M. Kalashnikov, it has been demonstrated the device, developed on the basis of the AK experts "Izhmash" under the leadership of his son, Viktor Mikhailovich. The device was a purely peaceful purpose was a fire suppression system pulse type.