I didn’t think you’d find too many examples of Soviet designed Christmas cards, being a former communist state after all, but this gallery of about 60 cards shows otherwise.

A great collection of Soviet era advertising posters.

Photos from the Soviet/Russian “Buran” space program, that was abandoned in the mid-1990s. An unfortunate outcome given the amount of time, effort, and money that must have been invested in it.

French pho­tog­ra­pher Marc Riboud’s collection of photos of day-to-day life in the former Soviet Union.
Links to more Soviet-era photo sets are at the foot of the page.

Was mastering the game of chess all part of a plan for Soviet world domination conceived after the Russian revolution?
Chess has long been popular in Russia – Czar Ivan IV is thought to have died while playing a match in 1584. After the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, it became a national pastime. Soon after [...]

The fascinatingly morbid Soviet doomsday machine, or ultimate weapon, which was designed to ensure there would be a Soviet response to a US nuclear attack even if government and military leaders had already been killed or incapacitated.
The point of the system, he explains, was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear [...]

We may never know if there is any truth to rumours of an unofficial (or black) Soviet space exploration program, which was far more experimental – and as a result, far more dangerous – than the missions they publised, but Italian bothers Achille and Gian Judica-Cordiglia feel they have some compelling evidence.
There are those [...]

Life is complete. I saw the new Star Trek movie trailer on the big screen (as opposed to my monitor) for the first time this week.
And a scene of what looks like the USS Enterprise under construction seemed reminiscent of some of the images in this collection of artwork depicting the possible future of [...]

A matter that has become topical again in recent weeks…
A short history of the so-called “hot line”, a communications system that linked the leaders of the erstwhile USSR and the US, set up in the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, to reduce the possibility of an “accidental” nuclear war between the two superpowers.
The hot [...]

The early exploits of the Soviet space program were often shrouded in secrecy, and unlike US space missions which were virtually a media circus, only the merest of details of a space flight were ever revealed.
After stumbling upon this snippet about Russian Aleksei Leonov, the first person to ever walk in space, I can see [...]