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.

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 ...

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.

The Soviet Union dissolved less than two years later. The Pizza Hut chain came to the Soviet Union a few months after McDonald’s in 1990, and Gorbachev appeared in a commercial for Pizza Hut in ...

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.

A bizarre string of matchups occurred in the 1987 McDonald’s Open, an exhibition tournament that saw the Milwaukee Bucks face up against the former Soviet Union.

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

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On Dec. 30, 1922, in a meeting at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater of Communist delegates from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus ...

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.