Poetry is sometimes closer to dramatic truth than history itself. Around 27 million Soviet citizens died in WWII, according to official estimates. Even though words can hardly wipe out the ...

Mr. Patterson, who was born in Moscow and spent most of his life in Russia, came to Washington after the collapse of the Soviet Union and to live closer to his father’s relatives. His one high ...

To that end, [msylvain59] has been kind enough to give us a look inside the Elektronika MK-26—a calculator built in the former Soviet Union. There’s lots of interesting stuff to see from the ...

Nuclear Lake was formed on 23 February 1971 when the Soviet Union simultaneously fired three nuclear devices buried 127m (417ft) underground. The yield of each device was 15 kilotonnes (about the ...

The Soviet Union had been launching Kosmos spacecraft ten years before Kosmos 482. Kosmos 482 was a sister probe to the successful Venera . Since then, dozens of other missions have been launched ...

And throughout the 1970s and ’80s, she thumbed her nose at the Soviet Union, smuggling contraband across its borders and helping to resettle Soviet Jews who weren’t allowed to leave.

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia - but ...

Transport Fever 3 is on the way. And now, 20th-century city builder Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic is winding back the clock with its new Early Start DLC, which lets you approach your ...

(Photo by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense) Ukraine said it is in talks with Sweden to upgrade the country’s Soviet-era air fleet with modern avionics. The upgrades would include modern radars, means of ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Billed as a revival after 45 years of a Soviet-era contest that brought together musicians from across the eastern bloc, Intervision is Moscow’s answer to being banned from Eurovision in 2022 ...