A Soviet military base in Ukraine was so secret that it wa...  ...mained a mystery. Conspiracy theories ranged from Soviet mind control to weather experiments. Then came th...  ...eather experiments. Then came the collapse of the Soviet Union, which revealed that the Russian Woo...

As the Soviet Union was falling apart in 1989, Russell Guy boug...  ...ntricately-detailed maps of the world, created by Soviet cartographers with the help of government spies.D...  ...help of government spies.During the Cold War, the Soviet military mapped the entire world, par...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi...  ...g shipping activity near Vladivostok, home of the Soviet Union’s largest naval base on the Pacific O...  ...st naval base on the Pacific Ocean. Suddenly five Soviet submarines came racing out of the port at full sp...  ...ging from the haphazard nat...

The Space Race of the 1950s and ‘60s was jus...  ...1950s and ‘60s was just as exciting for the Soviet Union as it was for Americans, and both nations e...  ...e future. io9 has a roundup of illustrations from Soviet magazine, comic books, and children’s books...

A 1976 edition of The Hobbit published in the Soviet Union has illustrations by M. Belomlinskij. They...

The cows are fat and happy in this 1962 Soviet agriculture poster. The text says, "The Gas Stati...

Russia has a lot of miles that are covered in snow for a large part of the year. Find a way to travel through it more efficiently, and you'll be a hero! English Russia has collected many photographs of different contrapt...

It was decommissioned in 1995, but a step inside t...  ...is enough to send you back to the Cold War. This Soviet submarine would spend weeks submerged with a full...

Soviet hydrofoil Burevestnik (Stormbringer), with two ai...  ...Photo: foto.cheb.ru We've covered the Soviet 's Ekranoplan before in our feature Bigger...  ...our feature Bigger is Better: 7 Insane Soviet Projects, but that's not the only hydro...

In the early 1950s, Russian scientists were worried about a nuclear attack by the United States and wanted to know how radiation damaged tissue and caused cancer, so they decided to do an experiment....