However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...

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The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...

Life in the Soviet Union was filled with strange contradictions ration cards and black market jeans, communal apartments, and ...

Even more Top Secret than the Lockheed SR-71, the D-21 drone was a promising Cold War idea that could have eliminated the need for manned overflights, ...

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

IT’S BEEN 56 YEARS SINCE HUMANS FIRST SET FOOT ON THE MOON, AND THE JOURNEY CONTINUES RIGHT HERE IN NEW MEXICO TODAY THROUGH ...

Americans don't like talking about it, but the Soviet Union produced a golden age of science If not for the scientists working for the Russia-led Soviet Union, America would be much worse off today ...

Their GreenGold Tea is one of several new companies that brought tea fields in and around Ozurgeti, Guria’s regional capital, ...

Retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams fought in one of the most incredible battles in aviation history and lived to tell the tale ...

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...