Missle Cruiser “Kalinin”, 1955, Pacific Fleet.

Soviet light cruiser “Kalinin” (project 26-bis).

MiG-21

TODAY IN HISTORY: On February 20, 1986, the Soviet Union launched the space station Mir, which spent almost 15 years orbiting Earth.

SOVIET UNION. Russia. Leningrad. 1978.

A decapitated statue of Joseph Stalin’s head on the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

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Myasishchev VM-T outsize cargo transport aircraft. 

Soviet tourism poster from 1964

March 6, 1937: Birthday of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman cosmonaut.

Tereshkova piloted the Soviet Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, almost exactly 20 years before the first U.S. woman astronaut, Sally Ride, went into space. 

Tereshkova later became a high-ranking member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Rare Photos Of The Soviet Space Program From Gagarin To Intercosmos