The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization Advertisements
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The Shigir idol – The oldest known wooden sculpture in the world is being exhibited in Yekaterinburg
The sculpture was discovered on January 24, 1894 at a depth of 4 meter in the peat bog of Shigir, on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals
Aniva Lighthouse – The lighthouse of the edge of the world in Aniva
The lighthouse was built by the Japanese in 1939, on a small rock of the Sivuchya, near the rocky cape of Aniva. The built lighthouse is a circular concrete tower with a small side extension inscribed in an oval base. The height of the tower 31 meter, the height of the fire 40 meters above sea level. […]
Yaroslavsky Station – The Trans-Siberian railway station in Moscow
Situated on Komsomolskaya Square, Moscow Yaroslavskaya has the highest passenger throughput of all nine of the capital’s main-line terminuses. It serves eastern destinations, including those in the Russian Far East, being the western terminus of the world’s longest railway line, the Trans-Siberian. The station takes its name from that of the ancient city of Yaroslavl which, lying […]
Monument to Yuri Gagarin – The world’s first large-scale monument made of titanium in Moscow
The statue is made of titanium, a metal often used in spacecraft, and weighs 12 tons. Monument to Yuri Gagarin is a 42.5-meter high pedestal and statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first person to travel in space. The pedestal is designed to be reminiscent of a rocket exhaust. The monument was built for the 1980 Olympic Games. […]
The rifle of “Supersniper” is being exhibited in Volgograd
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev was a Soviet lieutenant who became well known for his role as a sniper during the battle for Stalingrad. Prior to 10 November 1942, he killed 32 Axis soldiers with a standard-issue rifle. Between 10 November 1942 and 17 December 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, he killed 225 enemy soldiers, including 11 snipers. […]
The Murder of the Russian Imperial Family at Yekaterinburg
The last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. In 1914, Russia was drawn into World War I, but was unprepared for the scale and magnitude of the fighting. Russia had the largest number of deaths in the war— over 1.8 million military deaths, and about 1.5 million […]
The Motherland Calls in Volgograd
The work of sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin is an 85-meter figure of a woman stepping forward with a raised sword. The statue is an allegorical image of the Motherland, which calls on its sons and daughters to repulse the enemy and return to the attack. The statue contains 5,500 tonnes of concrete and 2,400 […]
