The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the USSR or the Soviet Union) consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries. The USSR's territory stretched from the Baltic states in Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, including the majority of northern Asia and portions of central As...
How many countries did USSR split into? The former superpower was replaced by 15 independent countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Was the Soviet Union the largest countr...
When did Kazakhstan become part of the Russian Empire? When was the blockade standoff during the Cuban Missile Crisis? When was the Bolshevik Revolution? When was the United Nations formed in the Yalta Conference? When did the Battle of Moscow end?
on December 1, 1991, dealing what was essentially the death blow to the USSR. Gorbachev’sresignationand the dissolution of the Soviet Union came soon thereafter, granting new autonomy to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan...
Journey to Hrodna was quiet. We crossed the Lithuanian – Belarus border without any problem, Soviet border guards were not there. Well, Lithuania was still a part of the USSR for them. Of course, there were lots of worries – I realised the importance of the documents I was carrying...
The generic composition of this fauna distinguishes it from Kazakhstan fauna, which consists mainly of Darwinula, and from Euramerican fauna, which mainly unites representatives of the Carbonitacea. The Angarian fauna appears for the first time in the Middle Carboniferous of the Minusinsk Coal ...
Fast-forward to April 28, 2001, and a Russian Soyuz spaceship lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with Tito on board, alongside two Russian cosmonauts. Tito spent the next week on board the ISS. “It was eight days of euphoria,” he says. ...