Soviet History

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

Take a schvitz just like an infamous Soviet dictator while his unblinking eye looks on.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

An abandoned Soviet-era park that, when viewed from the air, looks like a pentagram.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.