Before the legendary T-34 and T-26, the Soviet Union experimented with a series of bizarre and often disastrous tanks. From ...

Kinescope of the famous Nixon and Khrushchev interaction. The film discusses a conversation about the competition between American and Soviet engineering, highlighting the achievements of both nations ...

In addition, Soviet officials talked about the Nurek Dam in the Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic, a proposed 980-ft-tall earth and rockfill dam, whose site was not on the tour. Inguri Dam was ...

It's October 1961, and the country is the Soviet Union. An urgent command is issued for developing an all-terrain wheeled snowmobile. Deadline – January 1, 1963, so it's a tight schedule. The task ...

A big and somewhat frightening book last week gave President Kennedy a text for the opening announcement at his news conferences. The book was the National Science Foundation’s last-word analysis of ...

Lenin may have equated Communism with the union of Soviet power and the electrification of the entire country, but surely he didn't literally mean hooking everything up to the grid. His overeager ...

FOR very many years one of the show places of the Soviet Union has been the huge automobile factory at Gorky named after Molotov, where the ZIM cars are made. It is one of the prides of Soviet ...

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That’s where the USSR’s Heavy Interplanetary Vessel (TMK) comes into the picture. Conceived during the height of the Space Race of the Cold War, the TMK program endeavored to send crewed missions to ...

The Soviet Union is the first and only nation to date that has blasted a canon in space. The execution was made possible through the Amaz space station in the 1970s, yet 40 years later, multiple ...