The son of an African American father and a Russian mother, he starred at age 3 in a propaganda film mythologizing Soviet ...

The memories of those deported, killed, imprisoned, or tortured are with current leaders; so, too, are the ghosts of those ...

Instead, it’s been circling Earth since 1972, and gradually descending. By the time the Kosmos 482 spacecraft launched in 1972, the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States had been ...

Efremova, now 101, was a teenager when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. She ended up serving as a nurse in field hospitals on the front and remembers the horrors of the fighting ...

World War II veteran Valentina Efremova, 101, poses for a portrait in Yakutsk, Russia, on Friday, April 18, 2025. Efremova served as a nurse in field hospitals on the front lines. (AP Photo/Roman ...

Sovfoto / Universal Images Group via Getty Images In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the planet’s harsh ...

The author is indeed to be congratulated on producing a volume which is absolutely indispensable for all archæologists and physical anthropologists outside the Soviet Union. One of the tragedies ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...