Recently, the output of the Soviet textile designer Anna Andreeva has been the subject of renewed interest among art ...

My journey from Poland into Ukraine was long and bumpy and way different from any train I'd taken before in the US and Europe ...

A newly released novel is illuminating a little known chapter of Central Asian history during the Soviet era. It focuses on ...

For five years, the Soviet Union tinkered with the jet train, even testing it on public rails. But the project collided with ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet Union developed a nuclear-powered Arctic land train, the TES-3, designed to supply mobile power across remote Siberia. Built on a modified heavy tank chassis, the train ...

Aleksandr Skobov was born in St. Petersburg (then called Leningrad) in 1957. He trained as a historian at Leningrad State University. In 1976, while still a student, he began participating in ...

EIGHT DECADES after the event, Janis Cecins cannot know whether the Soviet train guard who transformed his family’s destiny was being kind or dim. Either way, the soldier allowed Mr Cecins’s ...

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Empires don’t just fall. They collapse. Now, political analysts are wondering if it’s the turn of the United States. Expect the unexpected. The Cold War empire of the Soviet Union took just ...

Many of the hikers had suffered seemingly inexplicable injuries, including some of their body parts being missing (Picture: DyatlovPass.com) The hikers were found dead outside their tent.

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