In the 1970s, the USSR was on a mission to dominate the world of heavy-lift helicopters, and they succeeded spectacularl ...

Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary." ...

Soviet engineers envisioned a radical high-speed train that could have revolutionized transportation—a concrete monorail ...

Mixed Signals,” by Rebecca Charbonneau, explores an unusual period of Soviet-U.S. cooperation in the hunt for aliens.

Once again the ‘Gloomsday’ Machine is reporting the awful news about the growing nuclear threats, the widening nuclear ...

In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...

It was not until 1961 that Spassky made a remarkable comeback by winning the USSR Championship. Russian-born chess master ...

The Colisee de Quebec once hosted a USSR v. NHL all stars game featuring Wayne Gretzky, Ray Bourque and Mario Lemieux.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Mar 2, 1931-Aug 30, 2022).

A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.

After all, the USSR was an ally at this time. The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European states were ...