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1. The Chkalov Flight: Almost Lost to Time

An easily-overlooked monument and museum outside Portland, Oregon, marks the site where three Soviet aviators completed the world's first transpolar flight.

Tags: america, history, air travel, aviation
2. A Memory Battle, Won

A statue to the founder of the Soviet secret police has been erected in Khabarovsk.

Tags: monument, history, khabarovsk
3. One Hundred Years of Lenin's Tomb

Lenin has been on display in the Red Square for exactly a century. 

Tags: history, Moscow, Red Square, lenin
4. Nostalgia Takes a Hit

War transforms the image of the Soviet-era apartment building.

Tags: war in ukraine, history, architecture, apartment
5. See Siberia by Train, Virtually

A new video game takes players across Siberia amidst the Russian Civil War.

Tags: russian revolution, russian civil war, history, video game
6. What's in a Fame?

An internet metric names the most famous historical person from Russia. They aren't Russian.

Tags: Kaliningrad, history, geography
7. Kremlin Rewrites History

A new Russian school textbook rewrites history from the 1970s to the present.

Tags: school, textbook, history
8. "Sieva," The Boy Who Lived, Dead at 97

Esteban "Sieva" Volkov, Trotsky's grandson and last surviving witness of his murder, died at age 97.

Tags: Mexico, history, politics, Esteban Volkov, trotsky
9. Four Books

Some books our reviewer liked, and their significance for lovers of all things Russian.

Tags: history, ukraine, literature, poetry
10. Playing With Fire

Maria Yudina was a profoundly gifted pianist and teacher. And there is a certain lingering myth about her...

Tags: shostakovich, women, history, classical music

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