Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA disapproved.

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

In Kyiv, Soviet-era monuments to Russian-Ukraine unity still stand. But should they? The Motherland Monument in Kyiv, lighted in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag.

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached its destination, a malfunctioning Soyuz rocket ensured its sibling ...

If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has lessons to share.

The Soviet Union’s Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruisers” were ambitious but ultimately flawed warships of the Cold War. Functioning as hybrids between a guided-missile cruiser and an aircraft carrier, ...

Although the Soviet Union, now the Russian Federation, has never sent an astronaut to the Moon, they still helped pave the way for human space exploration.

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

There was quite a stir in an over-60s block of flats in Dunkirk Road, Southampton after the Russian presidential flag and the Soviet Union State Emblem appeared in a communal walkway last month.