The first McDonald's was opened in the Soviet Union on Jan. 31, 1990. Thousands of Muscovites flocked to the new burger joint, forming lines several kilometers long in the center of Moscow on ...

McDonald’s entry into the Soviet Union began with a chance meeting. In 1976, McDonald’s loaned some buses to organizers of the 1980 Moscow Olympics who were touring Olympic venues in Montreal ...

Restaurants in the Soviet Union are renowned for their surly service, ... Hundreds of Muscovites line up around the first McDonald’s restaurant in the Soviet Union on its opening day, Jan. 31, 1990.

Soviet customers stand in line outside the just opened first McDonald's in the Soviet Union on January 31,1990 at Moscow's Pushkin Square. Vitaly Armand/AFP/Getty Images.

Business; George Cohon, Who Brought McDonald’s to the Soviet Union, Dies at 86 The idea was born at the 1976 Olympics. It then took 14 years and scores of trips to come to fruition.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -McDonald’s Corp said on Tuesday it would temporarily close all 847 of its restaurants in Russia including its iconic Pushkin Square location, increasing pressure on other ...

McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, in 1997. After Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in early ...

McDonald's was forced to give away a massive amount of free food as the result of an ill-fated 1984 Olympics ... The two countries who finished ahead of them were the Soviet Union and East Germany.