Is it a boat? Is it a plane? Is it the Loch Ness monster? The Lun-class ekranoplan, colloquially known as “The Caspian Sea Monster,” is arguably a mish-mash of all three, and has just reared its head ...

Two years ago, Russian authorities pulled a “sea monster” from a remote military pier on the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water. But the 302-foot Lun-class ekranoplan was no ...

The Lun-class Soviet-era ekranoplan is currently beached in the Caspian Sea and taking on water, despite original plans to restore it as a museum piece. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Soviets were the first to deploy functional GEVs in the 1970s and 1980s, including a few huge Lun-class ekranoplans weighing four hundred tons that could lug huge ...