Tskaltubo, once one of the largest spa towns in the Soviet Union, was renowned for its healing mineral waters. The Georgian town, built on hot springs, used to attract hundreds of thousands of ...

From its dark past as a gulag, then years spent as a booming mining town in the '70s and '80s; the Russian town of Vorkuta recently became the centre of a meme declaring it 'Capital of the World'.

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town of Potsdam to discuss the fate of Germany.

“It is our duty and our obligation to pass the truth on to new generations,” Ambassador Andrei Budáev said The support from the Uruguayan town of San Javier to the Soviet Army in the Battle ...