This Historical Defection Forced Russia To Upgrade Its Old School MiG-25 To The MiG-31

During the Cold War, military secrets were at a premium, so when a Russian pilot decided to defect with his MiG 25, it was a ...
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

Daniel Naroditsky Family: All About His Parents Who Immigrated to US From Soviet Union

Daniel Naroditsky was born in San Mateo, California, to Jewish immigrant parents from the former Soviet Union, US Buzz, Times ...
The National Interest

The Soviet Union’s Yak-9K Fighter Was Too Powerful for Its Own Design

The Yak-9’s wooden airframe design represents a true engineering marvel—considering that this plane was being deployed against some of Hitler’s most advanced military technology on the Eastern Front.
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One of the world’s most isolated countries, this former Soviet state is showing signs it’s ready for more tourists

(CNN) — When the Turkmenistan government announced new streamlined visa regulations in April, people familiar with traveling to the Central Asian nation were unsure what to make of it. Not that there ...