Oymyakon in Yakutia is the coldest village in Russia, considered the “pole of cold”. In 1933, a temperature of minus 67.7°C ( ...

Catherine II confessed in a letter to the architect Falconet that she "would like to have a project of an antique house, ...

Other top ballets include Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake', Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet’ , 'Spartacus’ by Khachaturian, and ‘Don Quixote’, by Austrian composer Minkus... so, it's not a Russian monopoly!

In Los Angeles, he wrote two scripts, but the studio was not satisfied and then Paramount offered Eisenstein to work on the ...

If you were born in the USSR, you probably remember these dishes. And, if you weren't, you might want to try them! Here's ...

Our website and social media accounts are under threat of being restricted or banned, due to the current circumstances. So, ...

You can't always immediately understand what these posters and postcards are advertising. But, it’s impossible to take your eyes off them!

Alexander Kazakov survived the Great War safely, but the Civil War that broke out after it in Russia literally broke him.

The Belgian corps fought on the Eastern Front, until the Bolsheviks took power in the country. However, they did not want to take part in the ...

Reading classic Russian literature in the original language you can find some weird words ending with '-s'. “Извольте-с”, “да ...

In the USSR, science was considered one of the key tools for building communism. After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the ...

A cheerful composition by legendary Soviet rock singer Viktor Tsoi and his band ‘Kino’ about youth hanging out carefree at nights.