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Soviet Union town with crumbling buildings, abandoned belongings and eerie murals after it was abandoned 18 years ago It was left in 1998 but was once a thriving town home to 5,000 soldiers and ...
From flying tanks to massive sea monsters that skimmed over water, the Soviet Union produced some of the wildest machines the ...
Soviet brutalist architecture explored. The brutalist architecture of the Soviet era has found itself fetishised in publishing and across social media and succumbing to the indignity of apparently ...
Pavilion 13 opened in 1967 to celebrate the Soviet Union’s coal mining industry. Now, the building has been transformed into ...
The new ammunition venture in Venezuela will also ensure a steady supply of 7.62mm ordnance in the Western Hemisphere, ...
National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...
A Soviet map of San Diego from 1980 (top) shows the buildings at the U.S. Naval Training Center and Marine Corps Recruiting Depot in more detail than does the USGS map published in 1979 (bottom).
By April 1983, Samantha Smith, now 10, was worried as Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union raised the threat of nuclear confrontation.
The year is 1983. It’s two years before Mikhail Gorbachev will come to power in the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan is president of the U.S., the Cold War is again heating up, I am in high school ...
The Soviet Union attempted to build its own reusable space shuttle system with Buran (the shuttle) and Energia (the launch vehicle) during the 1980s. Buran only carried out one flight, while ...
One of the first purpose-built modern-art museums in the Soviet Union, the building was originally clad in a series of abstract, square panels. In the 1990s, ...