Prague uprising on May 5-8, 1945: armed fighting and politics

The article deals with unknown pages of history of Prague Uprising on May 5.8, 1945 on the basis of unique archival documents and results of Czech and German historians. recent research. A special attention is paying to the activity of Czech armed underground and German military commandants office before and during the uprising, to the role of the 1- st Infantry division of the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Russian Peoples and of its command in Prague developments, to the battle actions and casualties of the parties.