After losing his job as a traffic officer in 1990, Sergei Torop, 64, claimed to have been reborn as Vissarion and went on to ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

Russian authorities have sentenced a Siberian sect leader to 12 years in a prison camp for harming his followers' health and ...

The man who envisioned a homeland for Evangelical Christians in the Soviet Union spent the final part of his life as a wanderer. He died in Berlin in 1936. RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north. The project was a grand failure – but 50 years on, the ...

My story began at Baby House No. 1 in Novosibirsk, Russia, one of thousands of children left behind in the wake of the Soviet ...

Keywords Soviet Union, geography, climate, agriculture, Moscow, Leningrad, Siberia, natural resources, industrial development, cultural diversity More for You Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in ...

The Soviet Union lost an estimated 27 million people in what Russians call the “Great Patriotic War” -– a staggering toll that left a lasting imprint on the nation’s collective memory.

On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union deported 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia, among them over 7,000 women, children and the elderly.

Soviet and American pilots flew the Alaska–Siberia Air Route to deliver combat planes halfway around the world, traversing more than 12 time zones, from Great Falls, Montana, to the Russian ...

I came from a very disciplined family,” she told The Associated Press from Yakutsk in eastern Siberia. ... Victory Day on May 9 honors the enormous wartime sacrifices of the Soviet Union.