From beach days to a polar bear's lunchtime, here are 25 photos of what life looked like in 1970s Soviet Union.

Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice,” when the U.S. Hockey Team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in Lake Placid, N.Y., during the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, en route to ...

One of the most controversial world leaders of the XX century have repeatedly visited the Soviet Union. TASS remembers his trips to the USSR in this photo gallery. Dodik’s conviction ...

“I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course. I was an enemy as (far as they were) concerned,” he says in an interview with CNN Sport. “I remember that day very well because I was in ...

The Soviet Union's MiG-25 was a big, scary, high-speed fighter. That is, until Western governments got their hands on it, thanks to Soviet Flight Lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Belenko. This post is ...

At the time of their famous match, the Soviet Union had compiled an unbroken streak of world chess championships that stretched back decades. After his loss, Spassky went home to a cold reception ...

LBJ urges Soviets to leave Czech soil WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 1968 (UPI) - President Johnson today called on the Soviet Union and its Communist allies to withdraw their troops from Czechoslovakia.

By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more ... that historic document alongside Boris Yeltsin. Photo: the leader of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, the leader ...

From Chechnya to Syria, via Ukraine, the Russia of Vladimir Putin has been involved in a string of wars since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Here is a recap. A married pair of virologists ...