We are starting tours big in places of ex USSR to see the history and places that they are still standing, we go shop antique soviet things.

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The USSR was founded in 1922, five years after the Russian Revolution overthrew the monarchy of Czar Nicholas II. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was one of the leaders of the revolution and was the first leader of the USSR until his death in 1924. The city of Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor.

During its existence, the USSR was the largest country by area in the world. It included more than 8.6 million square miles (22.4 million square kilometers) and stretched 6,800 miles (10,900 kilometers) from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

The capital of the USSR was Moscow, which is also modern Russia's capital city.

The USSR was also the largest communist country. Its Cold War with the United States (1947–1991) filled most of the 20th century with tension that extended throughout the world. During much of this time (1927–1953), Joseph Stalin was the totalitarian leader. His regime is known as one of the most brutal in world history; tens of millions of people lost their lives while Stalin held power.

The decades after Stalin saw some reforms of his brutality, but Communist Party leaders became wealthy on the backs of the people. Bread lines were common in the 1970s as staples such as food and clothing were scarce.

By the 1980s, a new type of leader emerged in Mikhail Gorbachev. In an attempt to boost his country's sagging economy, Gorbachev introduced a pair of initiatives known as glasnost and perestroika.

Glasnost called for political openness and ended the banning of books and the KGB, allowed citizens to criticize the government, and allowed for other parties than the Communist Party to participate in elections. Perestroika was an economic plan that combined communism and capitalism.

Ultimately the plan was a failure, and the USSR was dissolved. Gorbachev resigned on December 25, 1991, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist six days later on December 31. Boris Yeltsin, a key leader of the opposition, later became the first president of the new Russian Federation.