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The Ekranoplan is one of the coolest machines designed to demonstrate the technological innovation of the Soviet…

Back in the 1960s, Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev claimed there was a secret project going on deep in the…

The Soviets dominated the early days of space travel. Up until the Apollo manned lunar missions by NASA, most of the…

I am not a short man and I am also not a very rich man, so flying is an exercise in pain for me. Of course, that’s…

At this very moment, the highest-rated television show on IMDb, beating out The Wire, Breaking Bad, the first few…

It’s the 1950s, and you’re the Soviet Union. Your deepest rivals, the Americans and their corporations, are all…

If the Cold War turned hot, it wasn’t entirely going to be fought with tanks and nuclear weapons. If it got to…

What do you get when the Soviet Union wants a jet airplane purpose-built to service its massive farms and…

Americans tend to talk a lot about the Space Race and how we made it to the Moon and we were first and no one else…

This thing? I found it inside an abandoned square-mile Soviet-era military factory in Siberia. It would have worn a…

In Soviet-era Russia, families needing transportation lined up at the car office, filled out their paperwork and…

We'd all love an obsessively detailed 1:18 scale Volvo 240 coupe on our desks, of course, but no collection of…

Saturday morning, the competitors of the Mutually Assured Destruction of Omaha 24 Hours of LeMons race had just…

Once again, English Russia comes through with a great car photo.

Powered by 228,800 Lb-Ft of thrust, this Lun-class Ekranoplan was designed to carry two-million pounds of…

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we admire interesting street-parked cars in places other than the Isl…

Let's say you could go back to the early 1950s and snag a super-futuristic prototype automobile as your 2009 daily…

The Lamest Day takes place at Nelson Ledges next weekend, and it will feature the best all-time Index Of Effluency…

All these Engine Of The Day honors, and no Russian iron? And yesterday was May Day, comrades? We're going to remedy…

57Sweptside loves junkyards, and not just the ones in his native Southwest. He's found for us this collection of…