MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. Eighty years ago on this precise date, workers at the World’s Fair 1937 in Paris put the finishing touches on the landmark icon of Soviet monument sculpture that was ...

For the first time since 1937, the Soviet Government has published absolute figures (instead of just percentage increases) on the average pay of Russian workers. The figure: 54 kopeks, or 600 ...

Creating a fully functioning and independent city in Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic can be quite challenging if you don't know what you're doing. Every citizen has various needs and wants ...

The USSR’s less-sophisticated tech helped it get ahead in the Space Race. A poster shows a Soviet worker pointing to a rocket labeled ‘Vostok’ (“East”), which launched Sputnik in 1957 ...

The use convict labor isn't new to Russia. The practice dates back to the Soviet era's "Gulag" system, where convicts were assigned to work in the riskiest and most "lucrative" sectors of the ...

He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August 29, 1949 the assembled bomb was wheeled to the tower. The blast was scheduled for 6 am.

Soviet engineers began work on large rockets in the 1930s. In May 1955, work began on the Baikonur launch site in central Asia. In August-1957, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile ...

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...

Founder of constructivism, painter and graphic artist Alexander Rodchenko originally designed the Workers’ Club of the USSR as a part of the Soviet Pavilion; it made its debut at the 1925 ...