The ‘Yuri Gagarin’ Cosmonaut Training Center, established in 1960, is located there. The settlement is closed to the public, ...

These movies were created at the dawn of Russian cinematography, but still amaze viewers even today. This was one of the ...

The ‘Kino’ rock band and its frontman were iconic in the music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and considered true ...

Salekhard is the only city in the world located on the Arctic Circle. Here are three of its main symbols.

All the nobility of the Russian Empire, including the tsar's family, liked to spend their holidays on the southern Russian ...

The Guard in 18th-century Russia loosely resembled the Praetorians of the Roman Empire. It was often up to them to decide who ...

Makovsky painted ‘The Kissing Rite’ in his Paris studio in 1895; a year later, he presented it at the All-Russian exhibition ...

Long winters, strong winds and extremely low temperatures – these settlements are located in the harshest climates imaginable ...

Saints canonized before the division of the church into Catholic and Orthodox are equally revered by both faiths. For example ...

Larina is simple, but a very nice old woman,” the author writes about Praskovya Larina. But, the “old woman” was probably no ...

If someone's speech is called “бред сивой кобылы” (“bred sivoy kobyly”) or "gray mare's ravings", it means that the person ...

The cold season is no reason to stay at home. Let's visit Father Frost (Russian Santa Claus), hunt for the northern lights ...