A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th Century. Azerbaijan still bears the scars of his ambition today.

Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved from a drab, run-of-the-mill Soviet metropolis into the urban star of Central Asia.

“It was beyond anything I had seen before.” Constructed in the late 1940s during the Soviet era, Neft Daslari began as a lone drilling rig on a tiny island and has since grown into an ...

Neft Daşları, known as "Oil Rocks," is a Soviet-era oil city in the middle of the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan's largest lake. It remains one of the world's most fascinating and mysterious industrial ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This Warszawa M-20 car with serial number 000001, based on a Soviet Union’s model, was the first vehicle ...

When filmmaker Marc Wolfensberger first found out about Neft Daşları, he thought it was a myth. He kept hearing about this secretive city, sprawled like floating, rusting tentacles across the ...

Ceramics museum in Kuskovo ‘Kukryniks’ also practiced book illustration, in particular for satirical works by Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and main Soviet writer Maxim Gorky.