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

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

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

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

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

Привет! Laugh "properly" while texting with your Russian friends! In the following pictures, you will see the most popular ...

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 ...

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

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