In 1944, Soviet military intelligence operated in new conditions: the Red Army was on the offensive, the situation was changing rapidly, and the Soviet General Staff needed more and more information about the enemy. Soviet military intelligence officers were assisted in gathering information about Nazi Germany by military intelligence officers from Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Norway, the...

Ot otriadov drevnikh slavian do massovoi armii epokhi Aleksandra II

The manual will help practice speaking skills and will help to master communication skills in basic situations, such as meeting new people, everyday conversations, life in the city, touring the city, visiting friends, hobbies, talking about weather, talking about sports, health, theater, music, movies, friends, and saying goodbye.

The author of this book, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Kirill Alekseevich Evstigneev, made 296 combat sorties during the Great Patriotic War, achieving 53 victories personally and another 3 in a group (this is the fifth best result in Soviet aviation; only Kozhedub, Pokryshkin, Gulaev, and Rechkalov shot down more enemy aircraft).

A collection of over 100 texts with exercises for students who learn Russian. New lexicon is translated into English. For basic-intermediate level.

Verb in texts by Chekhov and Averchenko. Short stories (with parallel texts in Russian and English) followed by verb analysis, questions and exercises. Basic-intermediate level.

This is a great collection of short stories for learners of Russian. It is designed for intermediate/advanced level students and it introduces them to the famous and talented Russian authors, such as, Ivan Bunin, Nadezhda Teffi, Arkadii Averchenko, Vladimir Nabokov, Sergei Dovlatov, etc. Each text is provided with the words' stresses and translation of the difficult/colloquial words into...