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 ...

It was not until 1961 that Spassky made a remarkable comeback by winning the USSR Championship. Russian-born chess master ...

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).

After all, the USSR was an ally at this time. The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European states were ...

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