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 ...

Get familiar with the Romanov family and learn Russian!

The jungle cat differs from domestic cats by its particularly large size - it can grow up to 12 kg. But, its tail is short and it has tufts on its ears, like a lynx. As a kitten, a jungle cat has ...

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

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 ...

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