We are back to Kronotsky Nature Reserve, a unique place
where one could admire untouched nature of Kamchatka.
Everyone must have heard about the Large Hadron Collider built in Switzerland. But few people know that the world-famous collider Soviet scientists had started constructing 20 years before
in a small village near Moscow. That time it was the largest particle accelerator. Let's visit today almost deserted site of the suspended largest particle accelerator to be.
Categories Exclusive, Other, Russian Nature
As the long Russian winter drags on, fish in the ponds of St. Petersburg become increasingly desperate for oxygen, clustering in vast thrashing masses at shrinking holes in the ice. Not
only does ice block oxygen that could be diffused into the water from the air, but it also impedes sunlight from reaching oxygen-generating plants and algae in the water.
When does the sea turn into jelly, what is the favorite tuning of Russian people and how have the village
girls changed in 50 years? Answers to all these questions and more in today's Assorted Russia.
Categories Exclusive, Photos, Russian Nature
Syani or Syanskie stone mines is a Moscow artificial cave system, where limestone was excavated for the city building. But nobody knows the exact date the development work beginning. The total length of the cave system is about 18850 meters,
which makes Syani the largest stone mine in the Moscow region and one of the largest stone mines in the whole country. Moreover this figure is not exact - some passages and manholes are choked and are still being explored.
Categories Culture, Exclusive, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People
Taymyr is a large peninsula located in the very North of Russia.
Welcome to get to know the life of this remote spot a bit.
Categories History, Other, Russian Nature, Technology
A trip to a tiny deserted hydroplant with a dam that now
just brings joy to local fishermen and vacationers.
Categories Culture, Exclusive, Photos, Russian People
At first glance you may think you see some Indian during his traditional ritual on this picture. You'll be half right as this is indeed a ritual of worship, but it
is performed by modern Russian shamans and their guests from abroad, who came to the shaman festival from Mongolia, Germany and the USA. Feel some magic!
Categories Exclusive, Photos, Russian People, Sports
More than 20 000 of people have taken part in the annual Moscow ski marathon. The
participants, aged 5-90 years old, could feel themselves a part of something really huge!
Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People, Society
Vladimir Sokolaev has taken a lot of wonderful pictures of Soviet
everyday life. Looking at them we can touch the past now.
