The Motherland Calls – The giant statue for the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd
The work of sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin is an 85 meters figure…
Volga-Don Canal – The “Meeting” of the rivers before the great gates in Volgograd
Α canal, which connects the Volga River and the Don River at their closest points.…
Flooded Belfry – A landmark towering above the water in Kalyazin
A Neoclassical campanile rising to a height of 75 meters over the waters of the…
Kizhi Pogost – The large wooden churches in Kizhi island
A historical site dating from the 17th century. The pogost is the area inside a…
Keyboard Monument – An outdoor keyboard sculpture in Yekaterinburg
It was created by Anatoly Vyatkin and installed on October 5, 2005 on the embankment…
Swallow’s Nest – The small castle on the cliff in Gaspra
The castle overlooks the Cape of Ai-Todor on the Black Sea coast. It was built…
K-141 Kursk – The sail of tragic submarine in Murmansk
The nuclear-powered submarine sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The last Symphony in Klin
Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made…
Fort Alexander – The naval fortress in Saint Petersburg
Since the formation of Saint Petersburg in 1703, the waterways in the Gulf of Finland…
Yalta Conference – The “Big Three” Conference in Yalta
The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the…
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…
Aniva Lighthouse – The lighthouse of the edge of the world in Sakhalin
The lighthouse was built by the Japanese in 1939, on a small rock of the…
Yaroslavsky Station – The Trans-Siberian railway station in Moscow
Situated on Komsomolskaya Square, Moscow Yaroslavskaya has the highest passenger throughput of all nine of…
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…
Belka and Strelka – The Soviet Space Dogs resting at the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow
Korabl-Sputnik 2 was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok…
The rifle of “Supersniper” is being exhibited in Volgograd
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev was a Soviet lieutenant who became well known for his role as…
Romanov family – The Murder of the Russian Imperial Family at Yekaterinburg
The last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on…
Romen Theater – The most famous of Romani theatres in the world in Moscow
The theater is a key object of Romani culture in Russia, and from the moment…