When the Soviet Union collapsed, many of those farms were abandoned, leaving large areas of land (estimated at around 20 million hectares) to be colonized by grassy vegetation. Nicolas Vuichard of ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s ... but this was discontinued and the land was sold for housing in the 1960s. It's fair to say some guesswork was at play here.

London sent the Hawker Hurricanes to the Soviet Union to help them fight against Nazi Germany. Residents share memories of their city, before its destruction in Russia's full-scale invasion.