Yuri Gagarin. The first man in space
On April 12, 1961, at a cosmodrome in the middle of the Kazakh steppe, a man in a spacesuit said one short word. "Let's go." And the rocket took off...
June 10, 2026
Moscow. What to see and how to spend 3 days
Moscow is a city that's impossible to see in one go; it's too vast, diverse, and fast-paced. But if you have...
June 10, 2026
Russians in the USA. History, emigration, and life today
There is a street in New York where the signs are ablaze with Russian letters, where the shops sell black bread, herring under a fur coat, and candies...
June 10, 2026
USSR. What it was, when it was created, and how it dissolved
Grandma drops «we didn't have that in the Soviet Union» into conversation, Grandpa recalls a Pioneer camp and the first satellite, in the old...
June 10, 2026
Dmitri Mendeleev and the Periodic Table. The History of the Discovery
There's a scene in the history of science that one wants to retell endlessly. A Petersburg professor compiled a table of all known elements and left in it...
June 10, 2026
How many people speak Russian in the world. Facts and statistics
On the face of it, the question is simple: how many people in the world speak Russian. But there is no exact answer. The numbers in different…
June 10, 2026
Russian loanwords in English. Words you know
If you say the word "babushka" to an Englishman or an American, they'll most likely think not of a kind old woman, but of a headscarf,...
June 9, 2026
Saint Petersburg. What to see and how to spend 3 days
Petersburg stands on water, and water is the main architect here. The city is cut through by rivers and canals, its palaces are reflected in the Neva, bridges...
June 9, 2026
What to see in Russia. 20 places worth visiting
The main difficulty with traveling in Russia is that the country is immensely vast, and there simply isn't a single "Russia" for a traveler...
June 9, 2026
Russian mathematicians and scientists who changed the world
Several years ago, a story happened that shocked the whole world. A mathematician from St. Petersburg was awarded a million-dollar prize for solving a problem that had been...
June 8, 2026
