In the 1970s, the USSR was on a mission to dominate the world of heavy-lift helicopters, and they succeeded spectacularl ...

Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary." ...

Soviet engineers envisioned a radical high-speed train that could have revolutionized transportation—a concrete monorail ...

Mixed Signals,” by Rebecca Charbonneau, explores an unusual period of Soviet-U.S. cooperation in the hunt for aliens.

Once again the ‘Gloomsday’ Machine is reporting the awful news about the growing nuclear threats, the widening nuclear ...

In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...

The Colisee de Quebec once hosted a USSR v. NHL all stars game featuring Wayne Gretzky, Ray Bourque and Mario Lemieux.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Mar 2, 1931-Aug 30, 2022).

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who learned to play as an orphan – eventually becoming the informal face of the ...

A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.

Bobby Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.