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Union of the Right for the Republic

Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR, Union des droites pour la République) is a French national-right party founded 31 August 2024 by Éric Ciotti after splitting from Les Républicains over his RN alliance; it holds 17 Assembly seats and backs the RN in 2027.

Union of the Russian People

The Union of the Russian People (Союз русского народа) was a right-wing, monarchist, and antisemitic mass organization in the Russian Empire, founded in 1905 and dissolved in 1917.

Union of the Three Nations

Unio Trium Nationum (Union of the Three Nations) was an alliance of Transylvanian privileged estates concluded in 1437, establishing the constitutional basis of the Principality.

Union of Transylvania with Romania

The Union of Transylvania with Romania was proclaimed on 1 December 1918 by the Great National Assembly at Alba Iulia, uniting Transylvania, Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș with Romania.

Union of Ukrainian Nationalists

The Union of Ukrainian Nationalists (Союз Організацій Українських Націоналістів) coordinated Ukrainian nationalist groups of the 1920s before merging into the OUN in Vienna in 1929.

Union of Unions

The Union of Unions (Союз союзов) was a Russian liberal political federation of professional unions, founded in Moscow in May 1905 and led by Pavel Milyukov.

Union of Uzhhorod

The Union of Uzhhorod (Ужгородська унія) was a 1646 church union by which 63 Orthodox priests of the Mukachevo eparchy entered communion with Rome, keeping their Byzantine rite.

Union of Vilnius and Radom

The Union of Vilnius and Radom was a settlement of 1401 by which Jogaila, king of Poland, granted his cousin Vytautas lifelong rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Union of Welfare

The Union of Welfare (Союз благоденствия) was a clandestine Decembrist society founded in Saint Petersburg in 1818 that opposed serfdom and autocracy, dissolving itself in 1821 into the Northern and Southern societies.

Union of Zemstvo and City Deputies (Zemgor)

Zemgor (Союз земств и городов) was a Russian joint committee of zemstvos and cities, created in July 1915 to supply the army in World War I.

Oct 15, 2026

Union Oil Company of California

The Union Oil Company of California, known as Union Oil or Unocal, was an American oil company incorporated in Santa Paula in 1890 and acquired by ChevronTexaco in 2005.

Union Oyster House

Union Oyster House, Boston restaurant at 41-43 Union Street, opened 1826 as Atwood's Oyster House; oldest continuously operating US restaurant, National Historic Landmark, sold by Milano family to Fertitta/Landry's in 2026.

Oct 3, 2026

Union Pacific

Union Pacific (1939) is Cecil B. DeMille's Paramount Western, from Ernest Haycox's Trouble Shooter, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea as allies defending transcontinental railroad construction from saboteurs; it won the 2002-retroactive 1939 Cannes Palme d'Or.

Union Pacific 3985

Union Pacific 3985 is a 4-6-6-4 Challenger steam locomotive built by ALCO in 1943, restored in 1981 for excursion service and donated to RRHMA in 2022 for restoration.

Union Pacific 4014

Union Pacific 4014 is a "Big Boy" steam locomotive built by ALCO in 1941 for the Union Pacific Railroad, the world's largest operating steam locomotive.

Union Pacific Big Boy

The Union Pacific Big Boy is a class of 25 articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotives built by ALCO in 1941 and 1944 to haul heavy freight over the Wasatch Mountains.

Union Pacific Corporation

Union Pacific Corporation is an American holding company, incorporated in Utah in 1969 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, whose principal subsidiary is the Union Pacific Railroad, a Class I freight railroad serving 23 states.

Union Pacific GTELs

The Union Pacific GTELs were 55 gas turbine-electric locomotives operated in freight service from 1952 to 1969, the only such fleet run by a US railroad.

Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight railroad headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, operating about 32,693 route miles across 23 states and one of the largest railroads in North America.

Union Pearson Express

Union Pearson Express (UP Express) is an airport rail link connecting Toronto Pearson International Airport with Union Station in downtown Toronto, operated by Metrolinx; it launched on June 6, 2015.

Oct 15, 2026

Union power station

Union Power Station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant near El Dorado, Arkansas, completed in 2003 and, at about 1,980 MW, the largest power plant in Arkansas.

Union Public Service Commission (संघ लोक सेवा आयोग)

Union Public Service Commission (संघ लोक सेवा आयोग, UPSC), India's constitutional recruitment body under Articles 315-323. Founded 1 October 1926, renamed Federal PSC 1937, UPSC 1950; conducts Civil Services and other Union examinations.

Union Solidarity and Development Party

The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is a military-aligned political party in Myanmar, created in 2010 from the former ruling junta's mass organization by Prime Minister Thein Sein.

Oct 21, 2026

Union sportive concarnoise

Union sportive concarnoise (US Concarneau, Les Thoniers), French football club founded 1911 in Concarneau, Brittany; plays at Stade Guy Piriou, won National 2023, one Ligue 2 season, relegated 2024.

Sep 19, 2026

Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures is a New York City venture capital firm founded by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham in 2003, known for early investments in Twitter and Coinbase.

Union Square, Manhattan

Union Square, Manhattan: historic 6.51-acre park at Broadway and Fourth Avenue, established 1833, site of the first Labor Day parade (1882), National Historic Landmark 1997, home of the GrowNYC Greenmarket.

Union State (Союзное государство)

Union State (Союзное государство), also Union State of Russia and Belarus: supranational Russia-Belarus union created by the 8 December 1999 treaty, preceded by 1996-1998 community and union treaties; common currency never implemented, Belarus retains sovereignty.