Barbarossa plan
Operation Barbarossa was a master plan for an attack on the Soviet Union, developed in 1941 by the German military. It proposed launching a...
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New Year in the USSR
New Year in the USSR was one of the most popular and beloved holidays. In the USSR, the New Year began on the evening...
Gorky city
The city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) is located on the Volga River, 400 km east of Moscow. It was founded in 1221 and...
Soviet buses
Soviet buses were also widespread in various cities of the USSR and played an important role in public transport. They were distinguished by good...
Stakhanovite movement
The Stakhanovite movement was a movement that formed in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. It is named after Alexei Stakhanov, who in 1935...
Beer houses
In the USSR there were beer establishments called “pivnushki”. They usually sold different types of beer (Zhigulevskoe, Moskovskoe, Leningradskoe, Yachmenniy Kolos, Rizhskoe, Ukrainskoe, Velvet,...
Artek
Artek is an international children’s center located on the Black Sea coast in Crimea. It was founded in 1925 and since then has served...
Moscow State University
Construction of the famous Moscow State University (MSU) began in 1949 and continued until 1953. It was connected with the need to create a...