The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Developed during the final days of the Soviet Union and entering service ... delivering up to 122.6 kN of thrust. The Su-34 is produced by the United Aircraft Corporation at the Novosibirsk ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

The J-15 is a 4.5-generation fighter jet that was based on the Soviet Su-33 and the planes are currently based on the country’s Liaoning and Shandong carriers. The J-15T has been designed to be ...

In common with other penetrating strike aircraft of the period, like the American F-111 Aardvark, the European Panavia Tornado and the Soviet Su-24 Fencer, the design featured variable-sweep wings ...

But despite the name of its capital city remaining Ulan Bator (Red Hero), the country’s Soviet-linked past has been widely described as “forgotten.” Jonathan Addleton, who served as the U.S ...

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests that most Russians view him favourably. The respected Levada Center polled Russians aged 18 and ...

Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, Vol. 12, Issue. 2, p. 375. Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91. Mr Gorbachev took power in 1985 and introduced reforms, as well as opening up the Soviet ...

Known as “one of the leading figures in modern Chinese printmaking,” Su Xinping has been active in China’s contemporary art scene since the 1980s ...