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From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to ...
The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the Circle) is the Soviet Union’s pioneerland, a vast (2,316,600 sq. mi.), cold, potentially rich region, bigger than the West that lay before the ...
The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...
The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...
Above the Arctic Circle, a once-flourishing Russian coal-mining town is in rapid decline. ... Vorkuta was “one of the richest and most promising northern working cities of the Soviet Union.” ...
A Soviet Ghost Town in the Arctic Circle, ... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the motherland subsidies that supported Arktikugol’s operations and the town began to thin.
Guinness may be ‘good for you’, but it was also the code word used in Soviet spies’ secret meetings in the last century.
The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on the 20th century — and still has an influence today.
A rock subculture had been percolating in the Soviet Union for decades by the time Gorbachev came to power in 1985, fueled largely by bootleg basement recordings that spread hand-to-hand across ...
Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...
Abandoned since 1992, the Soviet weather station on Kolyuchin Island in the Russian Arctic is showing new ... Polar Bears Have Taken Over An Abandoned Soviet Weather Station In The Arctic Circle.
Like many Jews from the former Soviet Union, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky grew up in a world that suppressed the truth about the Nazi genocide.