Russia

Russia was a nation-state on Earth, which had spanned a large area of Europe and Asia. Along with the United States of America, it bordered directly against the International Date Line. The flag of Russia was red with a yellow hammer and sickle.

In 1917, the ruler of the country, the tsar, was overthrown and replaced by a communist government under Vladimir Lenin. Russia served as a soviet republic until the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the 1990s.

In the late 20th century, Russia founded the Russian Space Agency. This agency was notable for the first spacecraft, named Sputnik 1, launched into space which ignited the space race in 1957 between this country and the United States of America. Russia first cooperated with France in training French astronauts for missions on Soyuz and Mir. By the end of the 20th century, Russia and America were working together on missions to the International Space Station and on the space shuttles.