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).

Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...

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 ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

The German Embassy in Moscow, which used in its publication in the telegram channel a map on which it "crossed the flags 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 ...

Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, Poland became a democracy, known as the Third Polish Republic. In 1999, the country joined NATO and in 2004 it joined the EU. Arrow ...