During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it ...

In ‘The Winter Warriors,’ French writer Olivier Norek narrates the 1939-40 confrontation between the two countries ...

The Kharkovchanka was a Soviet Antarctic exploration vehicle built on a modified T-54 tank chassis and enclosed with a fully insulated cabin to survive temperatures below minus 50. Powered by a V-12 ...

Thirty years ago, one of the most historic DIY projects of all time took place. Berliners took apart the wall that had cut their city in half. Thus began the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It ...

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the most powerful ...

Yu. Levyant/Sputnik Did Soviet barmen work for the KGB? Read on to find out the answers to all those burning questions about boozing over the Iron Curtain. 1. The first bars in the USSR appeared after ...

If The Beatles were down one band member, it wasn’t the end of the world. In most cases, Paul McCartney would pick up the slack and the recording would go on. A famous example came in 1969, when John ...

Chewing gum had a complicated and even tragic relationship with the Soviet Union. Once, it even caused a fatal stampede. For a long time, chewing gum was, if not banned, definitely unwelcome in the ...

In Akademgorodok, residents experienced cultural freedom unlike anywhere else in the USSR. To this day, the town is one of the most important research centres in Russia. The Siberian taiga, where ...