In addition, the files also revealed certain things that were previously unknown by the authorities in the West. For example, they learned that the USSR had a plan to conduct a series of sabotage ...

Natives of Italy, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were very active in the U.S. labor movement. They were anarchists and, amid American strikes in the late 1910s, led a volunteer investigation ...

Over ten Russian-language groups and channels for anti-vaxxers are to be found on the Telegram messaging service and other social media. There are tens of thousands of people accessing each of them.

Westerns, action, romance and comedy films – these foreign movies smashed box-office records in the USSR. Soviet films depicted what was already familiar to Soviet viewers - everyday life, work ...

Forests are what you'll see out of the train window for most of your journey on the Trans-Siberian. Sometimes this landscape of endless lines of trees outside the train window does not change for ...

When you look at the map, it may seem that Khanty-Mansiysk is located almost in the middle of Russia. However, the climate here is similar to regions of the Far North.

Towards the end of the evening, Putin comes on stage (he was Russian Prime Minister at the time), sits at the piano and starts playing the tune of a popular Soviet song by composer Veniamin Basner ...

Soviet Union, the Congress of Soviets, Soviet of Federation – the word has been and is still widely used in Russia, but what does it exactly mean?

In the beginning there were four independent republics that signed the declaration of the creation of the USSR, or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in 1922.

The sad story that happened to one of the first batches of those deportees became known as the Nazino tragedy. In May 1933, over 6,000 people were deposited from barges on a small deserted island ...

After moving to St. Petersburg, this German-Jewish family established a banking firm in the city. The ‘I.E. Günzburg’ banking firm developed rapidly and became one of the largest in the ...

Several rooms of the Tretyakov Gallery are dedicated to old Russian religious art. There were more than 60 icons in Pavel Tretyakov's collection, while others were added after the 1917 Bolshevik ...