Yokhor is an ancient circle dance that is performed in Buryatia at folk festivals. Hundreds of people gather in a ring, take ...

One of the most beautiful stations of the Moscow Metro subway system - ‘Kievskaya’ on the Circle (Brown) line - is decorated ...

Every schoolchild in Russia has written at least one essay on Polenov's painting, 'Golden Autumn'. The artist is especially famous for his fall paintings. I’ve gathered the most popular ones! You can ...

The rebellion of Yemelyan Pugachev exposed a host of problems in Russian society. The government wanted to consign it to ...

The cities around Moscow are growing rapidly. Many high-rise apartment buildings and highways are constantly being built so ...

Carlos Alonso left sunny Havana for Omsk to study mechanical engineering of the tank forces. But, he stayed in Russia to work ...

This song premiered in 1962 on a Soviet radio morning show and, from that time on, it’s become very popular. You can feel the ...

You can see the Caucasus Mountains, Nizhny Novgorod forests, the Black Sea and Moscow’s skyscrapers from these cable car ...

The ‘Novoslobodskaya’ station, opened in 1952, was decorated with a mosaic panel with the inscription: “Peace to all the ...

It seems to be an impossible question. After all, they cooked food in the oven and slept on its sleeping platforms, but they ...

Many children in the Soviet Union dreamed of becoming cosmonauts and pilots. And amusement parks had many types of rides ...

In the U.S. and UK, this period is referred to as ‘Indian summer’, in the Netherlands - ‘after summer’ (‘nazomer’), in ...