Andrey Vedyaev

Andrey Vedyaev10.08.2026

June 15, 2026, marks the 112th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, one of the most remarkable figures of the Soviet political elite and the only head of the Soviet security services ever to rise to the leadership of both the Communist Party and the state. The circumstances surrounding the birth of the […]

Andrey Vedyaev09.08.2026

On December 5, 2025, Yuri Petrovich Vlasov would have turned 90. To generations of sports fans, he was simply the strongest man on Earth – the 1960 Olympic champion, a four-time world champion, six-time European champion and five-time Soviet champion. He set 29 world records during his career. But Vlasov represented something bigger than physical […]

Andrey Vedyaev07.08.2026

As the Cold War hardened into a global contest, intelligence became one of the principal arenas of confrontation. The Wolf Constellation Markus Wolf belonged to the generation of German anti-fascists who helped build and defend the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the first socialist state established on German soil. For four decades, these men and women […]

Andrey Vedyaev01.08.2026

One day in 1980, a handsome young man walked into the Soviet Embassy in Rome. Introducing himself as a sailor in the United States Navy, he calmly announced that he wished to emigrate to the Soviet Union. The officials in the consular section could scarcely believe what they were hearing. Suspecting that the visitor might […]

Andrey Vedyaev24.07.2026

Sergei Solntsev and Soviet Intelligence during the Battle of Moscow: Intelligence, Resistance, and the Defense of Moscow Introduction On 20 November 1941, Senior Lieutenant of State Security Sergei Ivanovich Solntsev remained behind to cover the withdrawal of his partisan detachment near the village of Andreyevskoye, west of Moscow. Wounded during the engagement, he was captured […]

Andrey Vedyaev17.12.2025

In early December, we celebrate many glorious anniversaries of our country’s intelligence officers and athletes, but this year is especially special. December 5th marked the 90th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Petrovich Vlasov, the strongest man on the planet, the 1960 Olympic champion, four-time world champion, six-time European champion, five-time USSR champion, and a […]

Andrey Vedyaev19.11.2025

In the last days of November, 1941, the Nazi invaders approached Moscow, threatening to capture it. During these difficult days, Soviet people stood up to defend the capital, performing unprecedented acts of bravery, including behind enemy lines. The heroism of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a saboteur in the intelligence department of the Western Front headquarters, who died […]

Andrey Vedyaev04.11.2025

The name of Georgy Mikhailovich Bryantsev, an honorary Chekist, front-line soldier, and writer—a Man with a capital M—was known to everyone in the Soviet Union. In 1968, his story “The End of the Hornet’s Nest” was published in Volume 15 of the second series of the legendary “Adventure Library,” along with the story “It Happened […]

Andrey Vedyaev25.09.2025

September 19 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov, whose name is associated with an entire era in the history of the KGB’s underground intelligence service. It was under his leadership that the Vympel special forces group was created, and the first Heroes of the Soviet Union emerged among the KGB’s […]

Andrey Vedyaev20.09.2025

On December 5, 2024, Colonel Ivan Pavlovich Evtodyev, a veteran of the illegal special purpose intelligence service, an honorary employee of the state Security Service, celebrated his 100th birthday. The last of the surviving employees of General Sudoplatov. Ivan Pavlovich was born in 1924 in the village of Subbottsy in the very center of Ukraine […]

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The Andropov Code

Russian Strongmen

Markus Wolf and the Intelligence War of the Cold War

The Cry of the Albatross, or Spy Games

Behind German Lines

Russian Heroes

The Feat of a Chekist

The Tale of the Chekist Years

Illegal Anniversary

One of the Last Intelligence Officer Survivors

Japanese Communism: A Century of Revolution, Underground Struggle, and Parliamentary Politics

Shipyards Matter More Than Aircraft Carriers

Detroit Is Paying Students for Perfect Attendance

How Trump Plans To Silence CNN, Jon Stewart, and John Oliver