So when the Soviet Union collapsed, the newly privatized ZiL was left building hundreds of thousands of obsolete hulks no one wanted. Since then, the enterprise has been kept alive by orders from the ...

Some of you reading this may have been around long enough to remember the end of the Cold War, which came to its official close on December 26th, 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved. With this ...

It's October 1961, and the country is the Soviet Union. An urgent command is issued for developing an all-terrain wheeled snowmobile. Deadline – January 1, 1963, so it's a tight schedule. The task ...

In the early 1960s, Cold War rivalry extended far beyond nuclear arsenals and space exploration. On one side, American and European automakers were engineering some of the most iconic sports cars in ...

The limousines of 20th-century heads of state don't come up for auction all that often, as such cars tend to be displayed in museums or still belong to government garages. A few are certainly in ...