The Ilyushin Il-62 was the Soviet Union’s first true long-haul jetliner,a marvel of Cold War aviation that connected Moscow ...

Soviet aviation history on display at the Riga Aviation Museum +39 More See all photos. Baltic ... The Old Town is a delightful mix of new, medieval and Art Nouveau buildings.

Ralph Ziman’s 5-year collaborative effort to transform a decommissioned Cold War-era, Soviet-designed MiG-21 fighter jet from ...

Graphic Arts GA 2010.01186. In 2000, Oliver Langenberg, Class of 1935, donated nine Soviet propaganda posters from the 1930s to our collection. These huge, exceedingly rare posters document the ...

In the late 1950s, the Lockheed U-2 entered service as the most advanced reconnaissance aircraft of its time. Designed for extreme altitudes, equipped with state-of-the-art cameras, and initially ...

Get in the mood for a "dry January" with this selection of Soviet posters. From the 1920s to the 1980s, successive campaigns were launched to reduce alcohol consumption. They were not successful.

Propaganda during Soviet times came in poster form. Some messages stirred patriotism in the fight against Adolf Hitler’s invading forces, while others slammed illiteracy and laziness. This year ...

The next poster focuses on two of the dogs - Belka and Strelka - sent into space by the Soviets ahead of the first human missions. It was 1960, says Sidlina, and the Soviet Union had already ...

South African artists Ralph Zimon needed 5 years and tens of millions of colorful glass beads to turn a symbol of oppression ...

Homosexuality had been illegal in the Soviet Union, and even though it was decriminalized in Russia in 1993, a 2013 law makes it illegal to promote non-traditional sexual relationships among minors.

But, in Soviet times, ‘Aeroflot’ was rather a naming of civil aviation as a whole, which, by 1991, included some 30 inner directorates. Aeroflot. On Business Trips by Plane.