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This Day in History: Sputnik is launched by Soviet Union

On this day in history, in 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, officially making ...
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Here's why Soviet pilots are buried at a US base in Alaska

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...
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Red leviathan the secret history of Soviet whaling Ryan Tucker Jones

Russia's whale problem -- The whales of distant seas -- A revolution in whaling -- North Pacific numbers -- War and glory in the Antarctic -- Aleksei Solyanik and the end of Area V -- The Kollektiv ...
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We Just Bought Another Soviet Fighter Jet

What started as a simple idea turned into another incredible chapter in our aviation journey - the purchase of another Soviet-era fighter jet. From tracking it down to seeing it up close for the first ...