A survivor of Soviet Union-era communism is jumping into the race to replace late Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. Karina Lipsman ...

Designed to dwarf all previous helicopters, the Mi-32 would have been the world’s largest rotorcraft. With three rotors and ...

“In the shadow of Soviet repression, where personal expression was tightly controlled, Nikolay Bakharev carved out a quiet ...

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

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

Two men surreptitiously met for a half-hour 80 years ago on a downtown bridge over t River before driving into the hills of Santa Fe. One of the men gave the other a sealed envelope containing the ...

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

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

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...

Popular artists “on the bone” included Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis Presley, whose jazz and rock ’n’ roll recordings, to the ears of many Soviet citizens, represented freedom and self-expression.