Showing posts with the label Russia

Citizens! During Shelling This Side of The Street is The Most Dangerous

Feb 15, 2021

The city of Saint Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in Russia and in eastern Europe, with a great ensemble of historic building...

Why The Soviet Union Exchanged Warships For Pepsi

Jan 20, 2021

The American soft drink giant Pepsi has a long presence in Russia dating back to the early 1970s when Russia was still a part of the Soviet ...

Medieval Russians Built Churches in One Day to Ward Off Epidemics

Dec 18, 2020

In the middle ages, many Russian communities, especially in the Novgorod and Pskov regions, believed in building churches as response to cal...

Hostile Façades

Nov 27, 2020

The old city of Segovia, about 90 km north of Madrid, is best known for its aqueduct , but this historic city is full of architectural curio...

Vladimir Tatlin’s Unbuilt Tower

Sep 16, 2020

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the leader of the victorious Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Lenin, launched a massive monument-building pro...

A Hidden Memorial to Lenin in a Forest

Jul 9, 2020

Vladimir Lenin was a controversial Russian revolutionary leader who has been idolized and demonized in equal proportions since his death in ...

The Rzhev Memorial to Soviet Soldiers

Jun 29, 2020

A towering new statue honoring Soviet soldiers who lost their lives during the Second World War is to be unveiled tomorrow, June 30, in th...

Tsar Tank

May 20, 2020

Before World War I, military tanks were a mere concept. Leonardo da Vinci made sketches of a human-powered armored vehicle, with canons all ...

The Historic Meeting on Elbe River

Apr 10, 2020

April 25, 1945, is a date few remember. But it was a significant day in the history of the world. On this day, American troops sweeping in...

The Soviet Census Debacle of 1937

Feb 26, 2020

In 1937, the Soviet Union conducted its first population census in eleven years. Soviet leaders, especially Stalin, had great expectations...

Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator

Feb 14, 2020

Out of all places to stick your head into, a particle accelerator would rank among the worst. Yet, on that fateful day of 13 July 1978, thir...

The Znamya Space Mirror

Feb 6, 2020

For a few hours just before dawn on the night of 4 February 1993, a giant spotlight, 5 kilometers in diameter, raced across Europe from we...

Theremin: The Musical Instrument That You Can Play Without Touching

Jan 6, 2020

The theremin is probably the world's strangest and spookiest musical instrument ever made. It has no keys, no strings, just two metal ro...

The White Cliffs of Iturup Island

Dec 18, 2019

Stretching from Hokkaido, Japan to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean, are a string of volcanic i...

Vladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computer

Dec 2, 2019

Early computers were mechanical machines built using gears and levers. These parts or components could be moved with precision and were conn...

Russia’s Circular Warships

Sep 28, 2019

In the latter half of the 19th century, ships began to transition from wood to iron and many engineers thought the time was ripe to experime...

The Mountain Where Space Junk Litters

Sep 20, 2019

The Altai Mountains in Central Asia is exceedingly beautiful with snow-capped peaks, rich pine forests and valleys studded with stunning alp...

The Moscow Cathedral That Was Once a Swimming Pool

Sep 10, 2019

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour near Moskva river, Moscow. Photo credit: Valeri Potapova/Shutterstock.com On the northern bank of the ...

Barge Haulers on The Volga

Aug 1, 2019

Before the era of steam engines, the process of moving a boat or a barge up a river was extremely difficult. The usual method was to tow the...

Beautiful Siberian Lake is Actually a Toxic Waste Dump

Jul 15, 2019

The electric blue waters of this pond in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has become the backdrop of many Instagram fans lately. Photograph...