Gudok

The gudok, gudochek is an ancient Eastern Slavic string musical instrument, played with a bow.

Pyzhatka

Pyzhatka — Russian folk musical instrument, a wooden flute, traditional for the Kursk Oblast

Leonty Shamshurenkov

Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov (1687—1758) was a self-taught Russian inventor of peasant origin, who designed a device for lifting the Tsar Bell onto a bell-tower, constructed in 1752 the first self-propelling or self-running carriage and proposed

Kuznetsovsky Tunnel

Kuznetsovsky Tunnel is a railroad tunnel on the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM), on the Sikhote-Alin mountain range in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. The tunnel, as well as the Kuznetsovsky Pass it provides access to, and a nearby railway station, are all named

Mirny (sloop-of-war)

Mirny was a 20-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the second ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821, during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev circumnavigated the globe, discovered the continent

Bochka roof

A bochka roof or simply bochka is a type of roof in traditional Russian church architecture that has the form of a half-cylinder with an elevated and pointed upper part, resembling a pointed kokoshnik. In English the term barrel roof is sometimes used

Khakas Aluminium Smelter

Khakas Aluminium Smelter or KhAZ is an aluminium smelter located near Sayanogorsk, Russia. Owned by the Russian aluminium industry champion RUSAL, it is one of the largest companies in the Russia's Republic of Khakassia. It was the first major aluminium

Lisitsyn family

The Lisitsyn family was a family of metalworkers and businessmen, and the first documented manufacturers of Samovars, living in the city of Tula in the Empire of Russia, during the 18th and 19th centuries

Nuclotron

Nuclotron is the world's first superconductive synchrotron, exploited by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. This particle accelerator is based on a miniature iron-shaped field superconductive magnets, and has a particle energy up

Kola Bay Bridge

Kola Bay Bridge across the Kola Bay in Murmansk, Russia is the world's longest automobile bridge north of the Polar Circle. With a length of 1.6 kilometers, and 2.5 kilometers if the high-way is taken into account, it is the 9th longest bridge in Russia

Ghetto Games

The major sports of youth street sports and culture movement Ghetto Games are 3x3 basketball, 3x3 football, 3x3 floorball, pancration - Ghetto Fight, street dance - Ghetto dance and such extreme sports as BMX, skateboarding, extreme inline, scooters