[RightWhale]

Russians seem to enjoy building gargantuan hardware. Their 58 megaton nuke they set off in the 60s was dropped from a bomber. That was a huge contraption.

[Destro]

As the article I just posted shows-they can also build small cheap stuff too.

[El Gato]

Russians seem to enjoy building gargantuan hardware.

Well they really didn't have any choice, their first H-bombs were big suckers and so they had to build big rockets to carry them. Some of that they did by simpley stacking together lots of (relatively) small rocket engines.

I mis-stated above, the Soyuz is a rocket as well as a capsule, the design goes back to the early Soviet ICBMs, IOW to the late '50s early 60s.