Long winters, strong winds and extremely low temperatures – these settlements are located in the harshest climates imaginable ...

Larina is simple, but a very nice old woman,” the author writes about Praskovya Larina. But, the “old woman” was probably no ...

You need to boil potatoes, beetroots and carrots - everything is very cheap and accessible. Then peel them and mix with ...

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

If someone's speech is called “бред сивой кобылы” (“bred sivoy kobyly”) or "gray mare's ravings", it means that the person ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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