The Bolsheviks closed churches all over the country and then converted them for various needs, sometimes quite unbelievable.

In 1945, the building of the German parliament had no military or political significance. However, the Soviets saw in it the ...

There are about 80 historical ‘kalancha’, the watchtowers at fire stations, scattered all over Russia. Today, most of them ...

The scandalous incident occurred in Moscow on January 6, 1919 - Vladimir Lenin was already at the head of the young Soviet state. The attack on the leader’s car was committed by a gang of a well-known ...

When reading Russian-language texts, it's not unusual to come across various abbreviations, which can be difficult to understand at ...

The ‘Russian San Francisco’, the world's largest city on permafrost and a city from whose waterfront it is possible to see ...

More than 20 cultural and several more natural sites have been inscribed on the World Heritage List since 1990.

The old expression “Типун тебе на язык” ("Tipun tebe na yazyk" or literally "I wish you had a pimple on your tongue!") can be ...

The Soviet Union began regular broadcasting from the television center in 1934 and, by that time, the first serial TV sets ...

As the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Basterds’ appear, a melancholic melody begins to play. Fans of ...

Legendary French architect Le Corbusier realized only one project in the Soviet Union - the ‘Centrosoyuz’ building in Moscow.

Now, about 10-15 leopards live in the Caucasus: in the Sochi National Park, in North Ossetia and in Kabardino-Balkaria.