RIDDER, Kazakhstan -- Two years ago, officials in Ridder, a city in northeastern Kazakhstan, decided to erect a monument in honor of Filipp Ridder, the 18th- and 19th-century mining engineer for whom ...

The founder of the Soviet Union died in 1924, but his embalmed body remains on display in a country that doesn’t know how to let go of its past. Last Sunday, upon waking up, I reached for my phone and ...

Lenin was built for the Arctic—three nuclear reactors powering icebreaking across frozen seas—but its journey was as dangerous as it was daring. From coolant leaks to reactor replacements, its hidden ...