Andrei Chikatilo is remembered as 'the Butcher of Rostov', one of the deadliest and most prolific murderers in world history.

From 1991 to 1999, Yeltsin’s eight-year rule was a rollercoaster of historic gains for freedom and crushing economic and ...

The Soviet Black Sea Fleet launched a massive revenge raid on the Romanian port of Constanța in 1941. After engaging the ...

Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo's reign of terror lasted for more than a decade and saw him convicted of 52 murders ...

Demikhov was a pioneer of heart surgery. But thanks to his other, unusual, "interests", that hardly ever gets brought up.

The secret Cold War role played by a giant radio telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside has been revealed.

In 1987, a teenager with limited flying experience managed to fly straight into the heart of the Soviet Union, evading one of ...

A stunning juxtaposition of history and modern life, Transnistria exists as a time warp from before the Iron Curtain fell.

Surovtsev was born in the USSR city of Zhdanov – which has since been renamed Mariupol in present-day Ukraine – in 1984. After his father, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker, died from radiation ...

This well-received Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks collaboration dramatizes a relatively lesser-known historical event involving Cold War-era spies.

Follow us on Substack! <a href=" Find us on Instagram! <a href=" -- Estonia has a a long and dark Soviet history. So much so ...

On this day in 1981, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union open talks to reduce their intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe.