The Tu-144, the Soviet Union's answer to the Concorde, is one of aviation history's most iconic and ambitious supersonic ...

The Yak-3, therefore, should not only be considered an icon of the Soviet Union. It should also forever be known as one of the greatest of the World War II-era warplanes. About the Author: Brandon ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at 91. Gorbachev instituted major reforms that contributed to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. He was awarded the Nobel ...

In 1979, Zaitsev left the All-Union House of Models for a small atelier, which by 1982 he had turned into the Slava Zaitsev Moscow Fashion House, becoming the first Soviet designer allowed to ...

He had not meant the Soviet Union to die like that. The man who ended the cold war, ... One of his grandfathers hung Orthodox icons; the other preferred portraits of Marx and Lenin.

In 1973, David Bowie traveled via train through the Soviet Union on the Trans-Siberian Express. A friend, Geoff MacCormack, documented the journey — and it's now on view, for the first time in ...

Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved to become the star of Central Asia. Here’s what makes Almaty worth a visit.

Vyacheslav "Slava" Zaitsev, the couturier behind world-famous Soviet fashion that was often adorned with colourful Russian folkloric motifs, died on Sunday at age 85.