A Soviet map of San Diego from 1980 (top) shows the buildings at the U.S. Naval Training Center and Marine Corps Recruiting Depot in more detail than does the USGS map published in 1979 (bottom).

Luhansk was once part of the Russian empire but changed hands after the Russian Revolution. It was taken by the Red Army in ...

O ne of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of ...

As we mark 20 years of Vladimir Putin’s rule, Mick O’Hare looks back at the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the forces that underpinned the KGB man’s rise to the top ...

In his book The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World, John Davies pores over the maps, including those that were created of London.Here, we look at five extracts from a ...

Twenty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia is changing. ... After losing their Soviet role as centres of heavy engineering in the 1990s, ... more realistic map of Russia.