You might not know as much as you think you do...  ...old War rival. There were 8 leaders of the former Soviet Union, and the 3 leaders of the new Russian Feder...

A monument featuring a relief of soldiers stan...  ...lgaria to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Soviet takeover of Bulgaria. This weekend, street artist...

Twenty years after the Cold War ended, more and mo...  ...ng experimental aircraft (code named OXCART) from Soviet spy satellites. The military knew when the satell...  ...ooting weren't enough. Spies had learned that the Soviets had a drawing of an OXCART plane—obtained, it w...  ...ane materials, to cast mis...

The Soviet Union used their space program as one of the fron...

In 1970, during the Luna 17 mission, the Soviet space program landed the first ever remote-contro...

(YouTube link) Fifty-two years ago today (Nov...  ...y (November 3, 1957), Sputnik 2 launched from the Soviet Union with a dog named Laika {wiki} on board. It...

Swiss decay photographer Timm Suess just published a travel journal through the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. The whole collection includes 450 powerful HDR images, all Creative Commons-licensed. Videos and sounds too.L...

These odd formations found inside an abandoned Russian fortress are apparently the result of the Russian Army testing their alternative to napalm. The heat generated from the napalm was so intense it melted the actual...

The Soviet Union decided the best way to show up the West wa...  ...he needed one thing above all else for his 1920s Soviet Union: steel. He also knew that to the east, in t...  ...Archangelsk. The idea was that he could move the Soviet navy back and forth. So Stalin had m...