In the Fall of 1972, a woman appeared at the airport in Tokyo and was greeted like a star. The news that legendary actress ...

Take a closer look at how artists in Russia and the USSR fantasized and depicted characters and plots from fairy tales, poems ...

It was important for artists to show not only the triumph of the Red Army in the defeated capital of the Third Reich, but ...

The lofty lines of Old Russian architecture, ornate examples of the Baroque style and a variety of golden and multicolored ...

There is no ‘Kolobok’ or ‘Kashchei the Immortal’, but there is a talking black hen, underground kings and the Mistress of the ...

Intelligent life must be out there somewhere! Here’s our roundup of Soviet movies about encounters with extraterresital civilizations.

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

One of the main church holidays is the Resurrection of Christ. On this day, believers exchanged greetings, saying, “Christ is ...

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

The ideas of production automation inspired all industrialized countries back in the early 20th century and the Soviet Union ...

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

The first sites were included on the UNESCO list back in 1990 in the USSR and the main landmarks of St. Petersburg were among ...