Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, but the idea never should’ve made it beyond science ...

During one very unusual Cold War drill, a Soviet Su-7 Fitter attack jet delivered a live tactical nuclear weapon in an end-to ...

The photographer Eric Lusito takes us on a scientific journey through space and time in a book on Soviet scientific institutes ...

The disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima are commonly touted as mere cultural exceptions, either due to Soviet communism or ...

The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...

ALTHOUGH some 20 million Soviet citizens moved from the country to the city between 1929 and 1939, as part of the government’s program of rapid industrialization, Russia is still predominantly an ...

In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th ...

“The Soviet exhibition strives for an image of abundance with an apartment that few Russians enjoy,” reported the New York Times, “with clothes and furs that are rarely seen on Moscow streets.” Carl ...

Communist Party supporters laid flowers at Stalin’s grave in Moscow this month, marking the anniversary of his birth. Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at a press conference in the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, in 1985. Staff Writer Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 12, 2020 -- People pose with a Lada car before the Lada cars rally dedicated to 50th anniversary of the start of the production of Lada automobiles in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 12, 2020.