A red installation of the word “Victory” sits outside Yubileiny Palace of Culture with its facade decorated with a mosaic portrait of the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

These days, we are celebrating the decisive contribution of the Soviet Union to the victory over Hitler’s Germany and the liberation of Europe from Nazism. Lest we forget that nearly 90% of all ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a ...

A failed space probe from the former Soviet Union is expected to fall back to Earth soon, and if its plunge happens to take place over your head, some recent spacecraft reentries may offer some ...

Soldiers are about to attend a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2025. (Photo: Xinhua) Soldiers are ...

a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet Union's early space adventure. The Russian leader was speaking to university students about the country's space policy when he mentioned the ...

Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, when it was part of the Soviet Union, Mr. Kanevsky ... writing about the intersections of style, culture, art and fashion. Getting Hands On With Infrastructure: A ...

On October 4th, 1957, radios picked up a faint beep drifting down from space. The Soviet Union had launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. There were obvious military ...

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 ...

The CIA obtained a 250-page KGB report on the incident after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, which includes eyewitness accounts and disturbing images of the aftermath, The New York Post reported.