In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built. With a yield of 50 ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

A Soviet-era spa town in Georgia is looking to reclaim its former glories, with a former sanatorium turned 4-star hotel one ...

From 2013 to 2015, Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko traveled thousands of miles to some of the most remote regions of the country to photograph once-proud structures of the Soviet Union that have ...

On December 15, 1937, at the height of the Great Terror in Stalin's Soviet Union, the ethnic cleansing of thousands of Greeks ...

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 ...

How did the Soviets manage to become the most powerful industrial power in the world and what do they owe their success to? Why were spacious, privately owned apartments split into numerous tiny rooms ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

Early on the morning of 22 August 1991, an Aeroflot jet carrying Mikhail Gorbachev touched down at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport. The Soviet president, confused following three days of captivity at his ...

But did it have to happen? Could the Soviet Union have won the Cold War? Or at the least, could the Soviet Union have survived until today, and remained a viable competitor to the United States while ...

A museum scientist has paid homage to the renowned British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, whose stories inspired him ...

Putin is interested in 'fundamentally changing borders in Europe and restoring old Soviet Union within borders of old Soviet ...