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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Usually Russians say that it's the food of students and bachelors. Making them from scratch takes a lot of time, so most ...

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

In 1816, a decree banned ‘Koporsky’ tea was issued in Russia and a little later, in 1839, the Rural Police Charter for state ...

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

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

By human standards, they are practically eternal: these trees are several hundred years old and some are over half a ...

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