A piece of Soviet-era space debris is expected to crash land down to Earth this weekend. The Russian Kosmos 482 spacecraft launched in 1972 could come plunging down some time between Friday and Sunday ...
A Soviet spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus is set to fall back to Earth in the next week. The Kosmos 482 capsule was built for Venus's brutal atmosphere, so it will likely survive Earth's. The ...
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The nuclear land submarine that was supposed to dig under cities
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored the idea of nuclear-powered subterranean vehicles capable of tunneling beneath ...
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The Soviet nuclear land train that actually worked
In the 1950s, the Soviet Union built a mobile nuclear power plant mounted on tracked vehicles to supply electricity in remote ...
Across the Former Soviet Union in Breakway Land, Jews Live Poorly, but It’s Still ‘better to Be Jewi
A visit to the self-proclaimed republic of Trans-Dniester is like a trip through a time machine. Soviet-era hammer-and-sickle emblems and red stars are chiseled into many walls, and Soviet-era ...
Here’s What You Need To Remember: Despite possessing a massive number of ships and aircraft, the Soviet Navy during the 1970s was still decisively inferior to the combined forces of NATO. The fate of ...
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