Annual statistical yearbook for the Russian Federation. Contains detailed demographic data for Russia related to administrative and territorial breakdown, population size, age and sex structure, spatial distribution, fertility/mortality, marriage/divorce and migration.

A collection of analytical articles published by the informational center 'SOVA' on the key critical issues facing Russian democracy, including the crisis in Chechnya.

In the opening days of WWII, Soviet border troops and infantry, under the protection of naval forces, crossed the Danube and seized the Romanian city of Chilia Veche.

The book contains information about all main operations - both air and sea conducted by the Soviets and the Germans on a strategic level.

The author, a well known German academic and editor at the Frankfurter Allgemine Zeitung examines the fate of those in the Hitler Youth or suppressed by the Hitler Youth.

The author, using archival sources, examines the life of orphans and their caretakers during the Nazi blockade of Leningrad.

Vospominaniia vypusknitsy tsentral'noi zhenskoi shkoly snaiperskoi podgotovki 1944-1945. Seriia na linii fronta. Julia Konstantinovna Zhukova went to the Red Army as a volunteer at the age of 18. In 1944 she graduated from the Central Women's School of Sniper Training. For several months of hard fighting in East Prussia, as an active sniper she had went through both an offensive action and...

The book tells a story of the famous Russian family of Riabushinsky, their struggle with the government in 1917 and subsequent emigration to Paris.

The author of many books, a famous collector of legends and myths about St. Petersburg, Naum Aleksandrovich Sindalovsky, presents a unique collection of St. Petersburg folklore, which, like a magic mirror, reflected 300 years of the reign of the Romanov dynasty. It began with the curse of Marina Mniszech. But this long journey was not only marked by tragedies; many sparkling witticisms, funny...