A pair of Tampa Bay Lightning alumni, Richard Panik and Byron Froese, raised the Gagarin Cup at the conclusion of the ...

Yaroslavl Lokomotiv captured their second consecutive Gagarin Cup on Thursday, defeating Ak Bars Kazan in Game 6 of the KHL ...

Maxim Berezkin’s dominant playoff run with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl has the towering power forward primed for North America as ...

It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated United States to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin ...

During the height of the Space Race, rumors spread that Soviet cosmonauts had died in secret missions before Yuri Gagarin’s ...

Fifty years ago this month, a young Russian military pilot, standing just 5’2” tall and wearing a comically over-sized helmet that would later become an icon, was strapped into a capsule atop the ...

Sixty years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space when he completed his historic orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961. It was an extraordinary achievement, but ...

Because it lacks the funding to modernize its most historic launch pad, Russia now instead plans to turn “Gagarin’s Start” into a museum. The pad is known as Gagarin’s Start because it hosted the ...

Yuri Gagarin, feted as a Soviet national hero for being the first man in space, was killed in a plane crash 50 years ago but the details of his death remain shrouded in mystery. On March 27, 1968, at ...

There are a lot of things American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts have in common — not the least being a certain nonchalance about where and when they urinate. Alan Shepard, the first American in ...

The first man in space, Russian Yury Gagarin, was killed in a mysterious plane crash a half-century ago, just seven years after his historic feat, a Soviet-era propaganda coup. Gagarin's 108-minute ...

In 1968, the provincial Russian town of Gzhatsk officially changed its name to Gagarin in commemoration of its famous native son, Yuri Gagarin, who was born on a Soviet collective farm outside the ...