1961’s Alekseyev SM-1 Was a Precursor to the Famous Caspian Sea Monster. Posted: May 12, 2025 | Last updated: May 12, 2025. Pictured here, the Alekseyev SM-1 was an incredible first-of-its-kind ...

Researchers have confirmed the existence of a new island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea, but they haven't managed to ...

Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews' newest book, Caspian: The Elements, takes the reader on a meandering journey through oil-rich central Asia following traces of natural elements such as fire, gas ...

Bordered by the Caspian Sea to ... Shiraz, famous for its gardens, poets, and ... Traveling to Iran during the best time ensures a comfortable and enriching experience in each of these places.

The Caspian Sea is about as strange as a body of water gets. Its surface still sits 27.5 meters (90 feet) ... Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily.

Here are five facts about the inland sea whose legal status has been the subject of fraught negotiations for over two decades since the Soviet Union's collapse.

In the late 1960s, the Caspian Sea Monster was a Soviet hybrid of plane and boat (called an ekranoplan). Now a Singaporean company is continuing its legacy with the AirFish ground-effect vehicle.

Soviet engineering is often considered simplistic but effective - yet this beast of a boat-plane hybrid was anything but. The KM, dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster by US Intelligence services, was a ...