When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Source: Keystone/Getty Images The space race between the United States and the former Soviet Union was in full acceleration mode in the late 1950s and progressed into the 1960s. The struggle between these two countries gave extra momentum to… Read More »
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir AksyonovHe died at the age of 89, having flown into space twice, once on a refurbished spacecraft and then on the first manned test of a new model. Aksyonov’s death was announced by Russia’s federal space company Roscosmos on Tuesday, April 9. “On behalf of the Roscosmos state company and myself, I… Read More »
MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the collapse of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of this deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living growing melons, squash and tomatoes on surrounding farms. Aral sea. Bayniyazova, 50, has spent most of her life tending land near Muynak in northwestern… Read More »
MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the collapse of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of this deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living growing melons, squash and tomatoes on surrounding farms. Aral sea. Bayniyazova, 50, has spent most of her life tending land near Muynak in northwestern… Read More »
As president of two of Russia’s leading musical institutions, the Kirov (later Mariinsky) Opera and Ballet Theater (1976-88) and the Leningrad (later St. Petersburg) Philharmonic Orchestra, he has served for over thirty years since 1970. He served as chief chef for a while. Yuri Temirkanov, who died in 1988 at the age of 84, was… Read More »