This Soviet biplane first took to the skies in 1947. It was actively used in the civil air fleet, cargo transportation and ...

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You can admire them at any time of the year, but, with the onset of cold weather, these villages become just fabulously ...

A nightmare for all foreigners. A mayonnaise dish you would either hate or love. And an absolute must on the Russian New Year ...

Take a walk around winter fairs, see cities in bright, colorful decorations and, of course, take part in the fun party ...

Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Irwin Shaw, Mark Twain are just a few of the writers whose works were adapted for the screen ...

Journalist Svetlana Lomakina has been interviewing expats from different countries living all over Russia for several years ...

About a task that has not even been started yet, one could say: “Конь не валялся” (“Kon ne valyalsa”) or “The horse hasn’t ...

The most popular names in Russia in 2024 were Mikhail and Sofia. In Moscow, according to the Department of the Civil Registry ...

The Ural Mountains cross Russia from north to south, passing through 9 regions. They are also considered the conventional ...

Many of them were severely destroyed after the Nazi occupation. This is what they look like now. Nikolay Viktorovich (CC ...

In 1955, the careers of several prominent party figures and officials were ruined because of this incident. It turned out that several ministers and academicians, including the USSR Minister of ...