Project 613 - C-189 Soviet Diesel-Electric Submarine

<div style="text-align: justify;">A C-189 613 submarine is moored to the pontoon pier at the  Lieutenant Schmidt Embarkment. The submarine was built in 1955 at a  Baltic factory. It is the oldest submarine of the postwar construction which is still afloat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Project 613 Soviet diesel-electric torpedo middle submarine is the first and most numerous type of submarines built after the WWII. The engineering design was made by Efgrafov Y. E. and in August 1948 it was approved.<br><br>The first submarine was launched in October 1950. In 1951 it was affiliated to the navy. Since 1951 to 1958, they built 215 submarines of this type in the USSR and 21 submarines in China. It was the biggest submarine line in the history of the Soviet shipbuilding; on a world scale, it is the second biggest after the German Type VII submarine line built during World War 2.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A combat submarine aimed at fighting against the enemy's ships, drifting mines, and reconnaissance. Project 613 submarines had been on duty in the seas and the oceans up to the late 80s. They were also used for new weapons tests and as personnel training units. Some of them were converted for other purposes.</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik6AubCl_i5FGUZ8jNaGsXTOiQ8NXF70BmLoX2LvnS4HuIXYjBrLf9I9ppLKPkgczUDHLVQXKJjvwKjMXiQkHHUjCE_YvDt1uQ3P957vN1JtJEth8n7uQfPpqijgqOos6_rxEPIRi1kwYn/s1600/C-189+613+Submarine+Museum+St+Petersburg+1001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik6AubCl_i5FGUZ8jNaGsXTOiQ8NXF70BmLoX2LvnS4HuIXYjBrLf9I9ppLKPkgczUDHLVQXKJjvwKjMXiQkHHUjCE_YvDt1uQ3P957vN1JtJEth8n7uQfPpqijgqOos6_rxEPIRi1kwYn/s640/C-189+613+Submarine+Museum+St+Petersburg+1001.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXV8iqkGs09Q-mLteOaA-t13HSqSIThi5_ntcQUAhhJume_hIywQQBxTeuN32UVrGNbVYroU9xSPj1JhFffZUEUchJH-bdGwQ5WwSM4mxb2rlIqI8li5FzF_i2WlctQ7rqISqVTuG8sWFV/s1600/C-189+613+Submarine+Museum+St+Petersburg+1002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXV8iqkGs09Q-mLteOaA-t13HSqSIThi5_ntcQUAhhJume_hIywQQBxTeuN32UVrGNbVYroU9xSPj1JhFffZUEUchJH-bdGwQ5WwSM4mxb2rlIqI8li5FzF_i2WlctQ7rqISqVTuG8sWFV/s640/C-189+613+Submarine+Museum+St+Petersburg+1002.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/10/c-189-613-submarine.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Project 613 - C-189 Soviet Diesel-Electric Submarine

A C-189 613 submarine is moored to the pontoon pier at the  Lieutenant Schmidt Embarkment. The submarine was built in 1955 at a  Baltic fact...

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World War II - Women At War

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In World War II, women volunteering in huge numbers alongside men and filling traditionally male positions at home, in industry, and the military. Women took both active and supporting positions in factories, government organizations, military auxiliaries, resistance groups and more. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">While relatively few women were at the front lines as combatants, many found themselves the victims of bombing campaigns and invading armies. By the end of the war, more than 2 million women worked in war industries, hundreds of thousands volunteered as nurses or members of home defense units, or became full-time members of the military. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In the Soviet Union alone, some 800,000 women served alongside men in army units during the war. Collected here are images of women involved directly in the events of World War II, and some of what they experienced and endured.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKnshEw58Uuu5f7DLvl-N_sxVKF_HSdZ1BCu4c2VJBBhgF3Gv1ws5_dsdSo4kR2BOb1VJOV12cIZJF_lV6exWzhUgFlpRTUx7Ps62E71RzNrijqWqhS4Z5v8IjnCo_Tvj_6wwQg78NnoQ/s1600/Woman-In-War-WW2-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKnshEw58Uuu5f7DLvl-N_sxVKF_HSdZ1BCu4c2VJBBhgF3Gv1ws5_dsdSo4kR2BOb1VJOV12cIZJF_lV6exWzhUgFlpRTUx7Ps62E71RzNrijqWqhS4Z5v8IjnCo_Tvj_6wwQg78NnoQ/s640/Woman-In-War-WW2-001.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Symbolic of the defense of Sevastopol, Crimea, is this Russian girl sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who, by the end of the war, had killed a confrimed 309 Germans the most successful female sniper in history.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5Axbw2yWikntidiGcyw5XkMi0dyQoaKyPPWTMcM_RRc4D0kfU_N9igLRC0nD8WG9Ct6qj9a7X_bNDQImUuQWUzFGB3g06hhF-Xc9P3qBkCIRn6bxDzvpNi6abBjgyaLtApaz3Qn5Hf8/s1600/Woman-In-War-WW2-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5Axbw2yWikntidiGcyw5XkMi0dyQoaKyPPWTMcM_RRc4D0kfU_N9igLRC0nD8WG9Ct6qj9a7X_bNDQImUuQWUzFGB3g06hhF-Xc9P3qBkCIRn6bxDzvpNi6abBjgyaLtApaz3Qn5Hf8/s640/Woman-In-War-WW2-002.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl looks through the lens of a large camera prior to filming the 1934 Nuremberg Rally in Germany. The footage would be composed into the 1935 film "Triumph of the Will", later hailed as one of the best propaganda films in history.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/09/world-war-ii-women-at-war.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

World War II - Women At War

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No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP0jvH5b0_JKPGm5QiaUdHp8bpdRbVXAxmSTlZEKJi61ahwlMiBcrE_eUL7fnjPHDFziBbBvOUe195WEEtio9OGZGIQOV05YUCd9kmgCDwkUC7wooonvUIe2_xAhz8uGxQE5YXvpHQ0_uL/s1600/51pBEIUGPoL._SS500_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP0jvH5b0_JKPGm5QiaUdHp8bpdRbVXAxmSTlZEKJi61ahwlMiBcrE_eUL7fnjPHDFziBbBvOUe195WEEtio9OGZGIQOV05YUCd9kmgCDwkUC7wooonvUIe2_xAhz8uGxQE5YXvpHQ0_uL/s640/51pBEIUGPoL._SS500_.jpg" width="441"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This is book written by Mr Hiroo Onoda. Who is Mr Hiroo Onoda? He is Japanese soldier Lieutenant of World War II. Apparently, he is a Japanese Soldier who continued fighting WWII 29 years after the Japanese surrendered, because he didn’t know.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7VQpQ_ZRb9AeiUoeQVLp5cLWrFudnvPcVi5DV5Le_10M949JavNQV8Y7T7vq4BxQT_Ua9ARo4aHg_N-4np8KykseUAsDJqavg420O5G5Vk4QB_ixneWcbKh-KXpvJ42rzEtXF6rhNXM82/s1600/Onoda-young.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="605" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7VQpQ_ZRb9AeiUoeQVLp5cLWrFudnvPcVi5DV5Le_10M949JavNQV8Y7T7vq4BxQT_Ua9ARo4aHg_N-4np8KykseUAsDJqavg420O5G5Vk4QB_ixneWcbKh-KXpvJ42rzEtXF6rhNXM82/s640/Onoda-young.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/07/no-surrender-my-thirty-year-war_20.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War

This is book written by Mr Hiroo Onoda. Who is Mr Hiroo Onoda? He is Japanese soldier Lieutenant of World War II. Apparently, he is a Japane...

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Russia WWII Left-over

<div style="text-align: justify;">Below are pictures of what Russian called "Zone of Total Defence". The zone was design during World War 2 to cover around Moscow area. This area included different fortifications that could detain fascists for some time if they came up to Moscow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The whole zone is build consisting of huge buildings, bunkers, tank guns and trenches and all were constructed very quickly. Fortunately there was no need to do this. The enemy army was stopped on the approaches to the fortified area. The Hitler army never made it to Moscow though.</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUl5YSUNfIuhgWFZpn0A0eD5qhcR2x8m71drQp0sx3WDPWebWU4LqFp7WJ4YyEJGED8rOuDCpdyqMkViTuX747buDpQPQIusawOG7xDkH8n4eW4UBnjO6wVppChkIIku8PPhQcq1b8kiO/s1600/144007463.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUl5YSUNfIuhgWFZpn0A0eD5qhcR2x8m71drQp0sx3WDPWebWU4LqFp7WJ4YyEJGED8rOuDCpdyqMkViTuX747buDpQPQIusawOG7xDkH8n4eW4UBnjO6wVppChkIIku8PPhQcq1b8kiO/s640/144007463.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijGtMCU8z9eZ_Xezs9k6BPYpk8GLl3qeQn2XNMGaWW2y8j4_lmECdAKJD9ZjtBR6TWP1Epp8iXlvviO3h9F_oNBCa0TNdaThMpJuBCKRVbX-O6Vus_MA-RsJ9MqHzp5ypt7_9GWly6gt6X/s1600/144007442.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijGtMCU8z9eZ_Xezs9k6BPYpk8GLl3qeQn2XNMGaWW2y8j4_lmECdAKJD9ZjtBR6TWP1Epp8iXlvviO3h9F_oNBCa0TNdaThMpJuBCKRVbX-O6Vus_MA-RsJ9MqHzp5ypt7_9GWly6gt6X/s640/144007442.jpg" width="640"></a></div><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/07/russia-wwii-left-over_19.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Russia WWII Left-over

Below are pictures of what Russian called "Zone of Total Defence". The zone was design during World War 2 to cover around Moscow a...

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