Saints canonized before the division of the church into Catholic and Orthodox are equally revered by both faiths. For example ...

Putorana Plateau is the land of endless valleys, high waterfalls and peak-less mountains, hidden beyond the Arctic Circle. It ...

This Russian city is the administrative center of Amur Region and is located on the border with China. Here are its three of ...

Russia has more than just Amber and Agate Rooms. The new Hermitage-Eurasia Center in Orenburg recently opened the Jasper Room ...

Stalingrad, as the city was then called, survived one of the most terrible battles in human history. See how the city, ...

This is not an ordinary idol, this is the idol of the master of the Angara taiga! On the top of a hill, located on the left ...

Leningrad, as the city was then called, survived one of the most terrible sieges in world history – more than a million ...

Like every other name, it has diminutive forms - Саша being the main one that everyone uses in informal communication with ...

The cold season is no reason to stay at home. Let's visit Father Frost (Russian Santa Claus), hunt for the northern lights ...

Russians still love this 1974 cult composition for being incredibly philosophical and for emphasizing that  life is here and now, not in the past ...