Russia: Facts Hardly Anyone Knows, Obviously

Published on December 20, 2017
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Secret Cities

You can bet it’s nothing like El Dorado, although that would be pretty neat to imagine. Russia boasts having 42 secret cities throughout the vast area it holds. So what’s there? Well if I told you I would have to kill you. Or the KGB would, I suppose. What we do know is that many of these cities were used for different industries like, metallurgy, chemical, and military.

Secret Cities

Secret Cities

Into Outer Space

During the Cold War, huge focus was placed on putting a man on the moon. The Soviets definitely won the short leg of the race when they sent Yuri Gagarin into orbit around the Earth in 1961. But America successfully landed Apollo 11 (hush, conspiracy theorists) by 1969. But what most people don’t talk about are the many Soviet cosmonauts who died during failed test flights. The numbers are astonishing, but records of the “Lost Cosmonauts” have all disappeared.

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Into Outer Space

Into Outer Space