Today we'll go to a remote city in Siberia, Yugorsk, to meet its ancient
people who had lived there much before the Russians came to the place.
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Categories Culture, Economics, History, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People, Science, Society
Photos of Nikita Orlov taken in Moscow 2011-2012. The author wanted to show how different the city can be. Poor and rich,
old and modern, ugly and beautiful. Sometimes you fall in love with it, sometimes you just want to escape...
Official football match on a rainy
day in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Categories Automotive, Culture, History, Photos, russian army, Society, Technology
Few know that on Poklonnaya Gora of Moscow there are
two nice museums. Let's see what they exhibit.
Sale of candles, icons and other churchware is a nice business... Just look how they celebrated birthday of a small candle factory director. The celebration was held in four places: they started from a church, then moved to a cafe, later sailed on the ship to proceed at a summer house...
Many Russian stars were invited to congratulate the director. By the way production of such kind of stuff as candles is said to be tax-free in Russia so that all profits can go to the religious organizations, leaving this area unobserved by state regulations...
Categories Business, Culture, Economics, History, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society
Welcome to the city of Riga, architecture of which combines all possible styles that have
been widely spread in Europe starting from the Medieval period and in the Soviet Union.
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Now we are going to show you an installation in the Museum of the Sheremetyevs of Sevastopol. It's a Soviet machine-gun nest that was located in the Mikhalovskaya casemated battery
during the final stage of the Sevastopol defence in 1942. The sailors defending the battery could stand for three days only. Though it's not "only" but "long three days"...
Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society
On July 28 citizens of Saint-Petersburg and guests of the city celebrated a religious spring festival of colors Holi to
support the ancient Indian tradition. Around 13 000 people came out to the streets to enjoy the rave of colors.
Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian Art, Russian Nature, Society
Ukraine has many beautiful ancient churches. Let us have a look at them and note the
difference between cathedrals built in different centuries and under different influence.
This diorama is called "Moscow - the capital of the USSR". Its dimensions: width 16m, height 6 m, depth 9,5 m. Total area:
304,9 m2. The historic centre of Moscow from Luzhniki to Zemlyanoy Val as it looked in 1977 are made in scale 1:75.
