The former Soviet Union's seven gold medals are the most of any nation in the history of Olympic volleyball. The Soviet Union leads the gold medal count for women (four). In men's volleyball, Brazil, ...

Free enterprise was banned in the Soviet Union, and many locals considered ... photographs of early 20th-century explorers: bearded men standing on Kotelnyy Island, dwarfed by mammoth tusks ...

That night, Gouzenko and his family stayed with a neighbour. Just before midnight four men from the Soviet embassy broke into the apartment searching for Gouzenko and his documents. The Ottawa ...