Explore the enduring legacy of the MiG-21, from its Cold War origins to its lasting influence on aviation.

From the far corners of the globe this week the elite of the Marxist world converged on Moscow for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. Red China’s Chou En-lai arrived by plane, ...

Vano Mikoyan is best-known for engineering the MiG-29 jet fighter. (File Photo) Moscow: Vano Mikoyan, one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died ...

A Soviet MiG-29 flies over Alaska en route to an air show in 1989. Late in the Cold War, the Russian air force deployed the Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter as a counter to the U.S. Air Force’s nimble F ...

Mikoyan was in Cleveland as part of a larger tour of the United States that also included stops in New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. His aim was to ease Cold War tensions ...

MOSCOW -- Prominent Russian historian and journalist Sergo Mikoyan has died in a Moscow clinic of leukemia, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. Mikoyan, 80, was an ethnic Armenian born in Moscow. His ...