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

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

Did you know that Russian museums employ not only people, but also four-legged specialists? Yes, no kidding: they have ...

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

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

It seems that there was nothing foreign made behind the Iron Curtain – only domestic. And yet, you could find almost ...

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

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 ...

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

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), ...

Almost on the very border with Estonia in the town of Pechory, you will find one of the largest Orthodox monasteries in ...