Mark Solonin

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Mark Solonin (born May 29, 1958, in Kuybyshev, Soviet Union) is a Russian historian and author of numerous books on the Second World War.^[1][2] An aviation engineer by training, he has lived since 2016 in Estonia.^[3]

Mark Semionovich Solonin (Russian: Марк Семёнович Солонин) was born in Kuybyshev, Soviet Union, on May 29, 1958. With a father who had served with the Soviet Army in the Second World War, he developed strong interest in history as a boy. After graduating from secondary school with a golden medal (cum laude), he decided to study not history but aviation engineering to avoid Soviet politics from interfering with his potential career in history.^[4]

Solonin's studies focus on the Second World War, particularly the opening weeks of the Soviet-German War^[5] Solonin has written seven books that have been sold over 270,000 copies in Russia. Every book contains hundreds of source references (both from Soviet/Russian and German military archives), comparative tables on planning, weaponry and armor and author-drawn schemes of military operations. His works have been translated into Polish, German, Czech, Estonian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and English.

Solonin criticized the new Russian Minister of Culture and revisionist historian Vladimir Medinsky as "a propagandist of the shameless Goebbels variety".^[6] In response, he was criticized by several "official" Russian historians, mostly for supporting works such as Icebreaker by Viktor Suvorov about the beginning of the war.^{[7]: 40 [8][9][10]}

• Solonin, Mark (2006). На мирно спящих аэродромах [At The Sleeping Airfields] (in Russian). Moscow: Eksmo. ISBN 5-699-15695-X.
• Solonin, Mark (2007). 23 июня: "День М [June 23: M-Day] (in Russian). Moscow: Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-22304-6.
• Solonin, Mark (2008). 25 июня. Глупость или агрессия? [June 25: Foolishness or Aggression?] (in Russian). Moscow: Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-25300-5.
• Solonin, Mark (2008). Мозгоимение: Фальшивая история Великой войны [The Fake History of the Great War] (in Russian). Moscow: Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-28327-9.
• Solonin, Mark (2008). 22 июня. Анатомия катастрофы [June 22. Anatomy of Catastrophe] (in Russian). Moscow: Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-30295-6.
• Solonin, Mark (2011). Новая хронология катастрофы [A New Chronology Of The 1941 Invasion] (in Russian). Moscow: Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-51036-8.
• Solonin, Mark (2013). Июнь 41-го. Окончательный диагноз [June 1941: The Final Diagnosis] (in Russian). Moscow: Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-67335-3.
• Solonin, Mark (2021), Spring Victory: Stalin's Glossed Over Crime, (in English), Independently Published/Amazon, ISBN-13: 979-8519589222
• Solonin, Mark (2021), Two Essays: Coming Up From Behind or How the Soviet Union Won the War and If World Domination is the Aim then Strike First!, (in English), Independently Published/Amazon, ISBN-13: 979-8494370945

• Soviet offensive plans controversy
• Battle of Białystok–Minsk
• Operation Barbarossa

• Web page of Mark Solonin
• YouTube channel of Mark Solonin