Georgy Zhukov certainly was, as Geoffrey Roberts puts it, "the great general who had saved the Soviet Union from catastrophic defeat by Hitler and then led the country to a great victory," but the ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 18 -- Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan. The commanding general's lonely retreat on foot across the Friendship Bridge spanning the Amu Daria river on Feb ...

A Jewish general in the army of the Soviet Union, General Dragunsky, who arrived here today, refused to comment on the recent arrests and imprisonment of Leningrad and Moscow Jewish leaders, ...

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA disapproved.

Soviet Gen. Georgy Zhukov couldn't get Coca-Cola behind the Iron Curtain, so he asked the US to come up with an alternative solution: "white Coke." ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

The Object 279 is one of the most legendary and uniquely designed tanks in military history. Developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s, this experimental heavy tank was engineered to be ...

He declared that the fight in the Soviet Union against anti-Semitism was considerably accelerated after the fall ... He estimated that more than 100 Jews hold the rank of general in the Soviet Army.

Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union before it dissolved. He ruled as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 and was the country's only ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published for the first time a testimony by a Wehrmacht general about Nazi Germany’s wide-spread war crimes on the territory of the Soviet Union. The ...