Historical events and the facts are very instructive and interesting.They give us the opportunity to understand what is happening in a given period of development of human society, nations and countries.Interesting historical facts are almost all nations.In Russia they are especially numerous.This is easily explained by the rich centuries-old past of our country.Common legends of the rulers of scientific and technical progress of the arts and culture have always attracted and attracts the citizens of other states.The following are examples of such historical facts.
interesting about modern Russia
About rulers
Since the beginning of the reign of Nicholas I in 1825, the rulers of our country alternated on a "bald - hairy."This pattern is still preserved.
On TV
In 1992 the chiming clock on TV New Year's Eve was detained for one minute.
about money
Double-headed eagle on the coins - this is not the country's coat of arms and the emblem of the Bank of Russia.
Scientific historical fact
Russia is home to the world's only a time traveler.This man - Sergei Krikalev.He spent in space more than 800 hours, moving at high speed.According to the theory of relativity at high speeds slow down time.It has been estimated that the astronaut returned to Earth by 0.02 seconds younger.
Laws
In 1994, the government passed a law prohibiting dogs barking from 23.00 to 7.00.This law is valid today, but only on the territory of Moscow.It is also noteworthy that the statute does not stipulate any punishment will incur the offender.
Facts of geography
RF area more than the United States nearly doubled.Teatralnaya metro - the deepest in the world.Trans-Siberian railway connects the capital and the city of Vladivostok and is be the longest railway line in the world.Siberian taiga - 8% of the Earth's land.
Technique
Kalashnikov assault rifles in the world much more than all the other models of weapons combined.
About rulers and the laws of tsarist Russia
interesting historical facts about Russia are not always accurate and scientifically verified.For example, according to some historians Ivan the Terrible did not kill his son.
In Russia, gender equality proclaimed by 2 years earlier than in the US.
In Peter the Great had his own way of dealing with alcoholism in the country.He ordered to give the medal, which weighed more than 7 kg, all delinquent.They had not removed it for seven days.
Reketmeykerstvo - Office, in charge of the reception of petitions under Peter the First.
interesting history of Russia is rich in facts from the life of the royal army: Nicholas I to punish the guilty officers are given the choice between Watchkeeping out of turn, and listening to opera.
Denby - the first Japanese man caught in Russia.In 1695, he came to Kamchatka, and in 1701 reached Moscow.Peter ordered him to teach Japanese to Russian children in schools.
"Here lies Suvorov" - the inscription on the plate at the monument to the commander.
Boris and Gleb - the first Russian canonized (1072).
Interesting historical facts in pre-revolutionary Russia
the army and navy
the Russian imperial navy command "cover!"means you have to wear a headdress.
in imperial times was the army rank of cornet, and modern - lieutenant in the army of imperial times - the title of lieutenant, and in modern - Lieutenant.
Facts of geography
1740 - the coldest winter in Russia.
trash after 1703 Ponds in Moscow were called ... Pure ponds!
On Science
MV Lomonosov Moscow State University is the founder, but he had not attended the university.
about people
In ancient Rus grasshoppers called dragonflies.
In Russia "original" - a stick, which beat the witness of the crime.
An interesting historical fact is the fact that the Thai national anthem was written in 1902 by a Russian composer.
wonder about the policy of the USSR.Historical truth
fact that the Soviet Union was called Cuban missile crisis, the US became known as the Cuban, and in Cuba itself - the October.
An interesting historical fact is that the legal war between Germany and the Soviet Union ended January 21, 1955.The decision was taken at the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
The Red and Whites in 1931 fought on the same side, at the request of the governor-general of the Chinese province of Sheng Shicai they suppressed the rebellion of the Turkic population.
Unusual facts of history of the USSR
During World War II he fought in the Red Army machine gunner Semyon K. Hitler.
Soviet Union at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in the battles tractors used due to lack of combat vehicles.
Over the entire period of the Cold War, the world twice was on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe because of failures in the computer systems of the USSR and the USA.A nuclear war was averted only thanks to experienced military leaders of both superpowers.
During World War II mines rendered harmless by specially trained dogs for this, they are the main assistants of sappers.
In the USSR, the main opponent of the Nazis, according to Hitler, was the announcer Yuri Levitan, not Stalin, as many believe.
Entertaining science and technology in the USSR
In the village of Baikonur in Kazakhstan SSR, in 1950 was built a wooden launch site.This was done in order to mislead the enemy of the state.This launch site is located more than 350 km from this village.
During the Second World War in the Soviet Union designed a flying tank based on the design of the tank A-40, but the project was canceled due to lack of powerful tugs.
Laser Gun invented in the Soviet Union in 1984.
Americans offered the Soviet Union launches the first space is not a dog Little Indians.
GAZ-21 has a wide range, including the model he had right-hand drive and automatic transmission.
Tank T-28 could overcome the "lunar landscape".So was the region seriously affected by the fighting.
Scientific historical fact: space instrument that the Soviet Union would launch into space for the exploration of Mars, during the tests showed that there is no life on Earth.After this incident, he was sent back for revision.
Other interesting facts about the Soviet Union
about famous people
List of gifts on Stalin's seventieth birthday was printed in newspapers for more than three years.
Khrushchev was the advertising face of the American company "Pepsi".
Rokossovsky - Marshal of the Soviet Union and Poland at the same time.
Khrushchev subjected to ridicule and sharp criticism paintings painted by artists in the avant-garde direction.He often used profanity.
Vladimir Putin, when he served in the KGB, had the call sign "Mole."
Laws
In the Soviet Union there was a tax on childlessness.
About Sport
Lev Yashin - a famous football goalkeeper, took the bronze medal at the national championship on hockey in 1953.
main prize in the Sports Lottery won only twice in the history of this game.
Music Television
Yevgeny Leonov in the cartoons the voice of a character like Winnie the Pooh.
The group "Aria" is a song called "The will and mind", very few people know that this is the motto of the Nazis in Fascist Italy.
Facts of geography
In the early 1920s, the city of Novosibirsk had two time zones.On the left bank of the Ob River difference with the capital was 3 hours, and on the right beregu- 4:00.
In the 20s and 30s of the twentieth century was the center of Vladikavkaz once and Ingush and North Ossetian Republic.
about the meaning
word "prisoner" means "a Red Army prisoner."
"unknown" world history
not always believable and understandable to the contemporary sounds or that historical fact.Examples are given below.
In the time of Genghis Khan in Mongolia executed anyone who dared to help in any body of water.As the water in the desert was valued more than gold.
In England, in the years 1665-1666 the plague devastated the whole village.It was then that medicine is useful to recognize smoking, which allegedly destroyed the deadly infection.Children and adolescents were punished if they refused to smoke.
Ancient beauties spread evenly through the hair pieces of fat.In the sun, they melt and evenly coated with greasy hair shiny layer, which is very fashionable.
famous inventor Isaac Singer sewing machine was simultaneously married to five women at once.In general, from all the women he had 15 children.All of the daughters called Mary.Probably not to be mistaken ...
Interesting historical facts funeral subjects: English Admiral Nelson, who lived from 1758 to 1805. In his cabin sleeping in a coffin, which was cut from the mast of the French enemy ship.It "feat" repeated the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who taught their texts lying in a coffin.She often took on tour this props, very unnerving than others.In the Middle Ages the sailors specially inserted at least one gold tooth, even sacrificing healthy.What for?It turns out that for a rainy day, in the event of the death he might honorably buried away from home.
About half of New Yorkers since 5 years speaks several languages besides his native American English.
In 2007, New York was attended by around 46 million tourists who left the city more than $ 28 billion!
The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes.So many "fought" Zanzibar and England in 1896.England won.
little more myths.Or is not it?
Historians claim that the Cocos Islands, located 300 miles south of Costa Rica, the pirates have hidden a treasure worth two billion dollars.The search takes archaeologists.
most unfathomable mystery of humanity - death.What happens to a person after he dies?Modern scientists have conducted large-scale, multi-million dollar research in this area.So far, there are only 100% conclusion that human consciousness continues after physical death.
Official data Admiralty claim that as a result of shipwrecks on the seabed lies eighth of the total produced in the land of gold and silver.Today, on the black market you can buy an old treasure map coordinates.Whether this is true or scam?In 1985, on a map of Mel Fisher found off the coast of Florida Spanish galleon "Nuestra Señora", which sank in the distant 1622.From the bottom of the vessel, he managed to raise the value of 450 (!) Million.
In some countries, citizens' every move is monitored security services using the Internet tracking programs.Sensors built into modern phones, TVs, computers.World's espionage is booming.Is it true?Who knows ...
