Russia Beyond

George 'Delmar' Koval passed many secrets about the American nuclear project to Soviet scientists.

During the siege of Leningrad, a group of Russian botanists holed up in a secret vault starved to death rather than consume the greatest collection...

The average service life of a Soviet wall unit was 30 years, for a car 50 years, and for a carpet almost forever. But this longevity wasn't just a...

You probably don't think of Red Square as a cemetery, but part of it is. About 200 people are buried by the Kremlin Wall, including several Western...

Soviet physical therapists managed to prevent real disasters with heat, UV radiation and electric current. However, sometimes the procedures...

The Russian president's personal security unit is the best-staffed and best-trained team in the country. We summed up all the information (that we...

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers unique examples of a classic European style in surprising places.

The Soviet Union had to think of a military bloc of its own after the West created NATO.

Many people dream of making a journey on the world's longest railway, but spending nearly seven days looking out of the train window at the...

Soviet Union, the Congress of Soviets, Soviet of Federation - the word has been and is still widely used in Russia, but what does it exactly mean?