Leonid Gaidai was one of the most popular Soviet comedy directors, enjoying immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former USSR & modern Russia

Main graph connects number of written songs and concerts of Vladimir Vysotsky

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The chart has been reproduced from Charles Joseph Minard's famous graph showing the decreasing size of the Grande Armée as it marches to Moscow with the size of the army equal to the width of the line.

Project Daedalus was a study conducted between 1973 and 1978 by the British Interplanetary Society to design a plausible unmanned interstellar spacecraft.Daedalus's image courtesy of Adrian Mann (bisbos.com).

Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. The surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis, began the Space Age and triggered the Space Race, a…

Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a small probability that it would strike the Earth in 2029.