The Yakovlev Yak-9 was the Soviet Union’s most produced WWII fighter fast, versatile, and adaptable to missions from bomber escort to anti-tank strikes. Its Yak-9T variant carried a 37 mm cannon ...

Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few ...

The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...

The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

Built on the perimeter of an open pit mine or on the permafrost fringes of a massive car factory, the company towns of the former Soviet Union are urban developments of economic extremes. With ...

Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The USSR did a great deal to delay the fall of the Spanish Republic, but in the end could not prevent the emergence of another Hitler-friendly state in ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who enabled the Cold War to come to a peaceful end during his astonishing tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 91 and reportedly died after a long illness, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Just before dawn on the morning of November 15, 1988, the Energiya ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

It was one of the signature moments of the environmental movement, and one of the turning points of global history. A few long-haired men and women afloat in small rubber inflatables on an open ocean ...

The Soviet/Russian space program achieved numerous "firsts" in human spaceflight, including the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1), the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov, Voskhod 2), and the ...

— -- There have been a number of great hockey teams from outside of North America. The 2006 Turin Olympic champions from Sweden had a Vezina winner, seven Stanley Cup winners, a Norris winner, ...