The Soviet railways system spun outward like a web from Moscow. Thousands of kilometers of broad-gauge tracks were laid in Central Asia during the Soviet period and later inherited by the newly ...

YERASKH, Armenia -- Just an hour south of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, the country's main north-south highway heads east and cuts through a roundabout in the center of Yeraskh, a dusty, threadbare ...

South Ferry, Liberty Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, and Jersey City on a Soviet-era map dating back to 1982. Image via Wired With its final days almost 25 years passed (though historians ...

Overgrown with vegetation, the rusted rail tracks running from Reni in Ukraine’s southwest corner to the port of Galati in Romania had been consigned to Soviet-era history long ago. About a quarter of ...

This Soviet map of military and industrial buildings in Leicester during the Cold War shows how the city would have been targeted. The map, dated 1974, highlights all the city's significant structures ...