Search results

Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included...

Astrakhan (Russian: Астрахань, IPA: [ˈastrəxənʲ] ) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in southern Russia. The city lies...

Soyuz 11 (Russian: Союз 11, lit. 'Union 11') was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1. The crew – Georgy Dobrovolsky...

Propaganda in the Soviet Union was the practice of state-directed communication aimed at promoting class conflict, proletarian internationalism, the goals...

The Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast is an ongoing military occupation that began on 24 February 2022, after Russian forces invaded Ukraine and began...

Şymkent International Airport (Kazakh: Халықаралық Шымкент әуежайы, romanized: Halyqaralyq Şymkent äuejaiy) (IATA: CIT, ICAO: UAII) is an international...

The 42nd Rifle Division was a unit of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. The division, first formed in 1940, was nearly destroyed in the opening...

Poltava Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. It was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little...

Brest Fortress (Belarusian: Брэсцкая крэпасць, romanized: Bresckaja krepasć; Russian: Брестская крепость, romanized: Brestskaya krepost; Polish: Twierdza...

Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko (Russian: Оле́г Анато́льевич Сале́нко, Ukrainian: Олег Анатолійович Саленко; born 25 October 1969) is a Russian-Ukrainian former...

The Great Break (Russian: Великий перелом), also called the Great Turn, was the radical change in the economic policy of the USSR from 1928 to 1929, primarily...

Putin's speech at the 43rd Munich Security Conference in 2007 was delivered on 10 February 2007, at the invitation of the Munich Conference's Chairman...

Ivory Coast–Russia relations (Russian: Российско-ивуарские отношения) are the bilateral relations between Ivory Coast and Russia. Russia works on UN missions...

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Гуси́нский, [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡʊˈsʲinskʲɪj]; born 6 October 1952) is an...

The 26 Baku Commissars were Bolshevik and Left Socialist Revolutionary (SR) members of the Baku Commune. The commune was established in the city of Baku...

A synaxis (Greek: σύναξις "gathering"; Slavonic: собор, sobor) is a liturgical assembly in Eastern Christianity (the Eastern Orthodox Church and those...

The Soviet occupation of Manchuria took place after the Red Army invaded the Empire of Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo in August 1945; the occupation...

Sergei Vladimirovich Taboritsky (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Таборицкий; 12 August 1897 – 16 October 1980) was a Russian journalist, known for his nationalist...

Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky (22 May 1913 – 4 April 2004) was a Soviet and Russian composer. Author of more than 300 songs, 8 symphonies (1940–1991)...

Mstislav Romanovich the Old (died 1223) was Prince of Pskov (1179–?), Smolensk (1197–?), Belgorod (1206), Galich (?–?) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1212–1223)...