Soviet History in Russia

An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

A collection of iconic Soviet car models on display.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

This 15th-century cave complex is one of the very few monasteries to stay open throughout World War II and the Soviet regime.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.