Bolshevik Revolution, the ancient fortress in the heart of the city was not deserted, but became something akin to a ...

Considered the most fashionable department store in modern Moscow, TsUM (Tsentralny Universalny Magazin) was also the first place in Tsarist ...

On April 20, 1934, in addition to Lyapidevsky, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to Vasily Molokov, Nikolai Kamanin, Mavrikiy Slepnev, Mikhail Vodopyanov and Ivan Doronin.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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