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Chelyabinsk Region lies in the centre of the southern Urals. Its main industry is ferrous metallurgy, in which it leads the country. Chelyabinsk Region is also an important centre of tractor producti...
Dagestan is the third largest republic in the Russian Federation. It is also the most densely populated and multi-national in the Caucasus. It is difficult to find another place where, on such a comp...
Russia is the largest country on earth, covering 17,075,000 square kilometres. Occupying the eastern part of Europe and the northern part of Asia, Russia is washed by the Arctic Ocean on the north an...
The historical centre of St Petersburg roughly corresponds to the “golden triangle” bounded by Palace Embankment, the River Fontanka and Gorokhovaya Street. Home to many famous museums, palaces and c...
St Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great in 1703 as Russia’s “window on Europe.” The first building was the Peter and Paul Fortress on Zayachy (Hare) Island. The earliest residential property was...
Over a thousand years ago, the European territory of modern Russia was inhabited by East Slavonic tribes. One of them was known as the Ros or Rus, as they were based around the River Ros, a tribute o...
The strange and eclectic style of St Michael’s Castle so aptly reflects the principles, artistic tastes and philosophical views of Paul I that it is often referred to as an “architectural self-portra...
Ligovka is the popular name for one of the most notorious districts of St Petersburg – a haunt of debauchees, thieves, prostitutes and other social outcasts. Many post-revolutionary artists depicted ...
Mikhail Glinka ’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila was staged at the Mariinsky Theatre and Bolshoi Theatre in sets designed by Konstantin Korovin and Alexander Golovin. In 1913, Ivan Bilibin designed the se...
Fables are short texts, sometimes in verse form, of a moral or satirical nature. Their heroes are often animals, plants or objects endowed with human attributes. Fables are almost as old as man himse...