The song ‘Katyusha’, written in 1938 by poet Mikhail Isakovsky and composer Matvey Blanter, is one of the most famous Soviet ...

They not only introduced Soviet citizens to the latest products of the perfume industry, but also reminded them of the rules ...

Ten kilograms of semi-precious stones and amber - that's exactly what it took St. Petersburg artist Anastasia Nikiforova to ...

In the 19th century, a wave of reports about hellish (‘adopisnye’) icons swept across Russia - we explain what this ...

On February 4, 1993, a spot of light flashed over Europe, from Southern France to Western Russia. The Mission Control Center ...

Russia’s main author of short stories and playwrights lived a short life and died at the age of just 44. A doctor by ...

Arkady Plastov, one of the most famous Russian painters of the 20th century, was a classic of socialist realism. You can ...

The intellectual-psychological game ‘Mafia’ (also known as ‘Werewolf’) was invented in 1986 by Russian Dmitry Davydov, a ...

In July 1941, Major-General Pavel Belov’s 2nd Cavalry Corps (from November 26th onwards - 1st Guards Cavalry Corps) fought on ...

The cat is one of - if not the most - popular pets to own in Russia: 49.9% of families own one (let that sink in!). Perhaps, ...

Innovative metal cisterns for temporary housing were one of the few utopian projects in the Soviet Union to be realized in real life.

On July 4, the winner of the ‘Miss Moscow’ beauty and talent contest was announced at the ‘Russia’ exhibition site in VDNKh - out of 45 ...