His mother, whose real name was Angelina Gritsenko, was a veteran of the Red Army, one of about 2,000 female sharpshooters ...

Some of the most notable Soviet women were snipers like Lyudmila Pavlichenko who is credited with 309 kills, the most recorded by any female sniper in history. As nurses, pilots, engineers ...

Serhii Pavlichenko crafted his first bandura in 1992. No one knows for sure how many musical instruments he made during his life. He hand-made all kinds of traditional Ukrainian stringed instruments – ...

Lyudmila Trut, the geneticist who led the decades-long experiment that created hundreds of ultralovable domesticated foxes on a farm in Novosibirsk, Russia, died peacefully in her sleep on October ...

Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher on the silver fox domestication study, one of the most significant biology experiments of the 20th century ...