Euphrosinia Kersnovskaya spent almost 20 years in Gulag camps and in exile. She not only left memoirs by regularly writing ...

The 18-year-old medical student will represent Russia at the Miss Universe 2024 contest in Mexico City in November.

During World War I, Maria Kexholmskaya served as a nurse and the soldiers dubbed her “the saint of the saints” for her ...

Yoshkar-Ola, the capital of the Mari El Republic, is known throughout the country as a city with replicas of world landmarks.

Kirov, formerly known as Vyatka, is a major industrial, transport and cultural center in Russia. Here are three of its main ...

The formal version of the name is Мария (Mariya), while the informal one is Маша (Masha). However, family members and friends can use diminutive forms of the name - for example, Машенька (Mashen’ka), ...

In 2006, actor Vasily Livanov received the Order of the British Empire, Fifth Class, at the British Embassy in Moscow. On ...

Education for Soviet high school students was fee-based for some time and a unified uniform appeared only after the Great ...

Commander of the Russian army Pyotr Wrangel was the only leader of the White movement who was still feared by the Bolsheviks ...

The Soviet state treated the Russian Orthodox Church extremely cruelly. Nevertheless, many clergymen still stood up to defend ...

Russia's capital attracts travelers from all over the world. We calculated the average cost of a week’s leisure vacation with ...

Famous Russian rock band ‘Lyube’ often plays with music styles, combining Russian folk music, Soviet romantic ‘chansons’ and military songs. As a result, a timeless hit was born, which Russians just ...