In 1963, a massive natural gas well in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic suffered a catastrophic blowout, igniting an enormous ...
The Lunokhod 1 rover stopped communicating in 1971 and was considered lost for decades, but a laser experiment detected a ...
Just because technology is old doesn't mean it needs to be retired, as is the case with this particular tank.
One of the largest memorials for Soviet soldiers isn’t in Russia—or on former Soviet ground. It’s in Berlin, Germany, where ...
Russia’s closed cities sound like a Soviet relic, but the transcript argues they survived the fall of communism and became ...
China’s FOBS program could launch nuclear-capable weapons from partial orbit, raising new concerns for U.S. missile defense.
THE USSR was one of the largest political, military, and economic powers in the world during the 20th century. The Soviet Union was formed of 15 member countries, all ruled by one central communist ...
What was once the most important potato field in the world belonged to the Nurskanova family in the town of Engels, in the ...
Rabbi Moshe and Miriam Moskovitz Share stories and moments of Shlichus from the Jewish Community of Kharkov, Kharkov, Ukraine.
That resolution was the culmination of a decades-long Soviet campaign to redefine the terms of international political ...
The events of August 1991 led to the Soviet Union, and President Gorbachev, being consigned to the history books. Malcolm Brinkworth explains what really happened during those final days. Just over ...