Two old five-story apartment buildings in Mustamäe are being retrofitted with elevators in a move that could pave the way for upgrades across Tallinn's aging housing stock. Akadeemia tee 4, one of the ...

WARSAW, Poland – For elevator engineer Leonard Kukiel, Poland's entry into the European Union helped him get a good job and improved the roads and railways in his country. For former Czech President ...

From September 17 to 23, 1942, the final assault on the grain elevator became one of the bloodiest battles in urban warfare. German tanks, flamethrowers, and artillery battered the fortress, yet the ...

These monstrous structures are not what you think they are! There was an expression widely used in the Soviet Union: “The bins of the Motherland” (Zakroma Rodiny in Russian). Literally, zakrom in ...

When Soviet engineer Yuri Artsutanov came up with his concept for an "electric train to the cosmos" in 1960, he thought it'd take 200 years to turn it into a reality. Fifty years later, the ...