When you look at Sverdlovsk, when you look at some of the intelligence that was being floated even back as early as the late 70s, why do you think the U.S. did not catch on sooner that there was a ...

4. Aliens Okay, so no one has seriously claimed that extraterrestrial beings are responsible for the blast, but some say that a UFO crashed in the Sverdlovsk region in 1969.

It was, they said, contaminated meat. In April of 1979, people in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk began falling mysteriously ill: fevers, coughs, vomiting. At least 66 people died.

Over the course of the next few weeks, at least 80 residents in the surrounding Central Asian city of Sverdlovsk, now known as Yekaterinburg, fell ill with what at first seemed like flu.

While Nikita Khrushchev talks, the other 202 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union do their best to go about their daily business, living and loving, bettering their lot, and sometimes—with ...

AK&M 02 July 2025 20:46 Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Denis Pasler as acting Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region. This is reported on the Kremlin's website. The Head of State accepted ...