Russia
The Most Contaminated Place on Earth: Chelyabinsk-40
Outside of the Chernobyl incident, we seldom hear about the nuclear laboratories and test facilities of the former U.S.S.R. One particular installation – Chelyabinsk-40...
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
On January 27th 1959, a group of nine skiers set off hiking in the northern Ural Mountains. The group was formed of graduate students...
World’s Largest Aircraft: Antonov An-225 Mriya
Bigger than a Boeing 747 and Airbus A380, longer and heavier than the Hughes H-4 “Spruce Goose”, The Antonov An-225 Mriya is a strategic...
World’s Oldest Space Launch Facility: The Baikonur Cosmodrome
About 1,300 miles (2,100 km) southeast of Moscow in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, the world’s oldest and largest operational space launch facility is...
Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell
Turkmenistan is seventy percent desert – the Karakum Desert, to be exact. The nation is divided into five provinces, the second largest being the...
Soviet Automotive Junkyard Museum
It is interesting how much culture can affect the desirability of classic cars. In the United States the transition from the late 40’s to...
