‘Visiting a sanatorium is like stepping back in time,’ writes Maryam Omidi in Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums, in which she takes the reader on a health-conscious journey into a world of peeling ...

Facing MiG-21PF interceptors guided by ground controllers and equipped with RP-21 and RP-22 radar, Vulcan crews had to rely on low-level flying, radar-warning receivers like Blue Saga, and jammers ...

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

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 Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

The Soviet bomber fleet grew to over 2,000 airframes, starting with piston-engine planes and then evolving to jet-powered craft. On April 27, 2025, the Cold War Museum in Vint Hill, Virginia ...

Galina Balashova still lives in Moscow but spent the best part of her life shaping the forms, ergonomics, colour, style and typography of Soviet Russia's ambitious space programme. Meuser reproduces a ...

Here's what an over-the-horizon radar does, why the US might want one in the Pacific, and how other systems like it work.

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 ...