The cityscape not only preserves the footprints ... We were reminded of another era—the days of the Soviet Union—when Raj Kapoor and Nargis were cultural icons across the USSR, and their ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Boasting bucolic landscapes and mountain ranges, urban cities and a complex past, Rick Steves thinks this underrated European ...

Analysis: 100 years after his death, Lenin seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in ...