Count Alexei Bestuzhev-Ryumin lived in Europe from a young age. In 1707, he and his brother Mikhail went to study in ...

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Russia’s wolf population is the highest in the world. It’s no wonder that these gray forest dwellers have appeared in so many ...

Construction of a new academic building for the University of Tyumen (UTMN) has recently been completed in Tyumen. It has ...

The abandoned marble quarries of Karelia have now turned into the ‘Ruskeala Park’. The main attractions there include a large ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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