Tag Archives: Russia

$17,000 Will Buy You the World’s Largest ATV, and Yes, It’s From Russia

Go big or go home…alive. Those are your options when riding a Sokol ATV, a [...]

Remembering the Goodwill Games

The American humorist and novelist, Mark Twain, once observed: “Everybody talks about the weather, but [...]

Camouflage Class at New York University

A camouflage class at New York University, March 1943. Men and women are preparing for [...]

Did you know that US car radios used to be required to have CONELRAD frequencies marked?

We certainly didn’t. Once thermonuclear weapons made the scary transition from theory to reality in [...]

Great Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue

The “Great Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue” (Большой Московский цирк на проспекте Вернадского in Russian), [...]

Visiting Moynaq in 2023: The Rusting Ships Of The Aral Sea

Situated in the region of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, Muynak presents a splendid array of attractions and [...]

Moscow Music Peace Festival: How Glam Metal Helped End the Cold War

Punch-outs, drunken antics and revolution at the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival where Bon Jovi, [...]

Apollo-Soyuz Mission: When the Space Race Ended

On July 17, 1975, the U.S. and the Soviet Union docked two spacecraft together in [...]

Kalashnikov Love: How the AK-47 Became the World’s Deadliest Rifle

The AK-47 is perhaps one of the most recognizable automatic rifles in the world. This [...]

Cold War Thaw: The USSR Pavilion at Expo ’74

The 1974 World’s Fair took place against a backdrop of improving relations between the United [...]