It’s good now that in the fleet most serve on contract. But the number of servicemen in the Navy with all its structures, including admirals, captains and cooks ashore is nearly 150,000. Accordingly, without our not especially useful Navy, the General Staff still has at its disposition alm...
It’s good now that in the fleet most serve on contract. But the number of servicemen in the Navy with all its structures, including admirals, captains and cooks ashore is nearly 150,000. Accordingly, without our not especially useful Navy, the General Staff still has at its disposition alm...
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This paper looks into the organization of military propaganda in the Russian Imperial Navy in the period 1914-1915. The author examines the rivalry in hostile propaganda between Russia and Germany during World War I in the Baltic and Black Sea theaters of military operations...
A retired navy captain and a former researcher of the Centre for Military-Strategic Research, Konstantin Sivkov simply dubs the Ukrainian summer offensive of 2023 ‘Citadel 2.0’, after the German Operation Zitadelle in 1943. Sivkov – who is also the vice president of the Russian Academy of ...
Whom she knew came in handy during the hard days of the war. In the previous winter the British ambassador, Sir George Buchanan, had been unable to find coal to heat his embassy. He even asked the head of the Russian Navy, who said there was none. While out on a walk with the Fren...
If the climate and weather on Novaya Zemlya doesn’t put you off, the archipelago’s history as one of the USSR’s main nuclear test sites might (although the Russian Navy says serving there is safe, if you believe that). It also plays a role in the modern GULAG. The MOD sentone of...
A nice late war imperial navy officers sword. This is one of the late Kai gunto because the fittings are iron. The saya is the shark skin covered version which was an expensive upgrade. It has a stainless steel blade with the anchor stamp on the tang. There is some scuffing on the bl...
Several NATO countries have already independently increased their navy presence in the Baltics, with Estonia and Sweden sending additional ships to contribute to NATO patrols. They also plan to integrate their surveillance to monitor the region better and use AI-powered tools to t...
For much of his life, Rimsky-Korsakov combined his composition and teaching with a career in the Russian military—at first as an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, then as the civilian Inspector of Naval Bands. He wrote that he developed a passion for the ocean in childhood from re...