The Soviet Union began regular broadcasting from the television center in 1934 and, by that time, the first serial TV sets ...

More than 20 cultural and several more natural sites have been inscribed on the World Heritage List since 1990.

As the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Basterds’ appear, a melancholic melody begins to play. Fans of ...

The old expression “Типун тебе на язык” ("Tipun tebe na yazyk" or literally "I wish you had a pimple on your tongue!") can be ...

It is considered one of the most famous Russian novels and is a delicate view on the nature of a typical Russian man. The ...

Russia has been preparing healthy and nutritious drinks centuries before smoothies and milkshakes became popular. Below, ...

On May 30, 2004, the 72-ton bell rang for the first time. Now, it is the largest working bell in Russia. Its "tongue" alone ...

Legendary French architect Le Corbusier realized only one project in the Soviet Union - the ‘Centrosoyuz’ building in Moscow.

Now, about 10-15 leopards live in the Caucasus: in the Sochi National Park, in North Ossetia and in Kabardino-Balkaria.

The Crimean Khanate posed the biggest problem of all the fragments of the Golden Horde; its troops once even burned Moscow.

It turns out that in the country of wooden churches and Russian-style ‘terems’ (fairytale houses), there are more than 2,000 ...

We'll tell you where the exotic fruit came from in Russia and why, in Soviet times, bananas were given to the 'front-runners' ...