If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop ...

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

Back in the USSR of the 1950s and 60s, hipsters, desperate for decadent rock ’n’ roll, cut illegal records using X-ray film.

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but ...

There have been four iterations of the Delta-class submarines, designed to serve as a key element of the Soviet Union’s nuclear deterrence strategy.

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous ...

Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 reentered Earth's atomosphere Saturday morning after 53 years in orbit during a failed attempt ...

The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery ...

The Kosmos 482 capsule was built tough for Venus. Its fall to Earth will make a huge fireball and may pose a small risk of hitting people or property.