Peresvet and Pobeda were
salvaged after the Japanese captured Port Arthur and incorporated into the
Imperial Japanese Navy. Peresvet was sold back to the Russians during
World War I, as the two countries were by now allies, and sank after hitting German
mines in the Mediterranean in early 1917 while Pobeda, renamed Suwo, remained instead in Japanese service and participated in the
Battle of Tsingtao in late 1914. She became a gunnery
training ship in 1917. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the
Washington Naval Treaty and probably
scrapped around that time. (Full article...)
Dubnium does not occur naturally on Earth and is produced artificially. The Soviet
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) claimed the first discovery of the element in 1968, followed by the American
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1970. Both teams proposed their names for the new element and used them without formal approval. The long-standing dispute was resolved in 1993 by an official investigation of the discovery claims by the Transfermium Working Group, formed by the
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, resulting in credit for the discovery being officially shared between both teams. The element was formally named dubnium in 1997 after the town of
Dubna, the site of the JINR. (Full article...)
In the early days of
sound cinema, among the various distinguished composers ready to try their hand at film music, Prokofiev was not an obvious choice for the commission. Based in Paris for almost a decade, he had a reputation for experimentation and
dissonance, characteristics at odds with the
cultural norms of the Soviet Union. By early 1933, however, Prokofiev was anxious to return to his homeland, and saw the film commission as an opportunity to write music in a more popular and accessible style. (Full article...)
The Shuttle–Mir program was a collaborative 11-mission space program between Russia and the United States that involved American
Space Shuttles visiting the Russian
space stationMir, Russian cosmonauts flying on the Shuttle, and an American astronaut flying aboard a
Soyuz spacecraft to engage in long-duration expeditions aboard Mir.
The project, sometimes called "Phase One", was intended to allow the United States to learn from Russian experience with long-duration spaceflight and to foster a spirit of cooperation between the two nations and their
space agencies, the US
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the
Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). The project helped to prepare the way for further cooperative space ventures; specifically, "Phase Two" of the joint project, the construction of the
International Space Station (ISS). The program was announced in 1993, the first mission started in 1994 and the project continued until its scheduled completion in 1998. Eleven Space Shuttle missions, a joint Soyuz flight and almost 1000 cumulative days in space for American astronauts occurred over the course of seven long-duration expeditions. In addition to Space Shuttle launches to Mir the United States also fully funded and equipped with scientific equipment the
Spektr module (launched in 1995) and the
Priroda module (launched in 1996), making them de facto U.S. modules during the duration of the Shuttle-Mir program. (Full article...)
The terrain complicated battle tactics for both sides, but the Russians and the Austrians, having arrived in the area first, were able to overcome many of its difficulties by strengthening a causeway between two small ponds. They had also devised a solution to Frederick's deadly modus operandi, the
oblique order. Although Frederick's troops initially gained the upper hand in the battle, his limited scouting, combined with the strong defensive preparations of the Allied troops, gave the Russians and Austrians an advantage. By afternoon, when the combatants were exhausted, fresh Austrian troops thrown into the fray secured the Allied victory. (Full article...)
Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva (Russian: Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева; 22 September [
O.S. 9 September] 1901 – 9 November 1932) was the second wife of
Joseph Stalin. She was born in
Baku to a friend of Stalin, a fellow revolutionary, and was raised in
Saint Petersburg. Having known Stalin from a young age, she married him when she was 17, and they had two children. Alliluyeva worked as a secretary for
Bolshevik leaders, including
Vladimir Lenin and Stalin, before enrolling at the
Industrial Academy in Moscow to study
synthetic fibres and become an engineer. She had health issues, which had an adverse impact on her relationship with Stalin. She also suspected he was
unfaithful, which led to frequent arguments with him. On several occasions, Alliluyeva reportedly contemplated leaving Stalin, and after an argument, she fatally shot herself early in the morning of 7 November 1932. (Full article...)
Euler is held to be one of the greatest, most prolific mathematicians in history and the greatest of the 18th century. Several great mathematicians who produced their work after Euler's death have recognised his importance in the field as shown by quotes attributed to many of them:
Pierre-Simon Laplace expressed Euler's influence on mathematics by stating, "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all."
Carl Friedrich Gauss wrote: "The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics, and nothing else can replace it." His 866 publications as well as his correspondences are being collected in the Opera Omnia Leonhard Euler which, when completed, will consist of 81 quartos. He spent most of his adult life in
Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in
Berlin, then the capital of
Prussia. (Full article...)
Image 10
German reconnaissance picture of Sovetsky Soyuz taken in June 1942
The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23,
Russian: Советский Союз, "Soviet Union"), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of
battleships begun by the
Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the
Bismarck-class battleships being built by Germany. Only four hulls of the fifteen originally planned had been
laid down by 1940, when the decision was made to cut the program to only three ships to divert resources to an expanded army rearmament program.
These ships would have rivaled the
Imperial JapaneseYamato class and America's planned
Montana class in size if any had been completed, although with significantly weaker firepower: nine 406-millimeter (16 in) guns compared to the nine 460-millimeter (18.1 in) guns of the Japanese ships and a dozen 16-inch (406 mm) on the Montanas. The failure of the Soviet armor plate industry to build
cemented armor plates thicker than 230 millimeters (9.1 in) would have negated any advantages from the Sovetsky Soyuz class's thicker armor in combat. (Full article...)
Image 11
A bowl of borscht garnished with sour cream and dill
Borscht (English: /ˈbɔːrʃt/ⓘ) is a
sour soup, made with meat
stock, vegetables and seasonings, common in
Eastern Europe and
Northern Asia. In English, the word borscht is most often associated with the soup's variant of
Ukrainian origin, made with red
beetroots as one of the main ingredients, which give the dish its distinctive red color. The same name, however, is also used for a wide selection of sour-tasting soups without beetroots, such as
sorrel-based
green borscht,
rye-based
white borscht, and
cabbage borscht.
Borscht derives from an ancient soup originally cooked from pickled stems, leaves and
umbels of
common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium), an
herbaceous plant growing in damp meadows, which lent the dish its
Slavic name. With time, it evolved into a diverse array of tart soups, among which the Ukrainian beet-based red borscht has become the most popular. It is typically made by combining meat or bone
stock with
sautéed vegetables, which—as well as beetroots—usually include cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, and tomatoes. Depending on the recipe, borscht may include meat or fish, or be purely vegetarian; it may be served either hot or cold, and it may range from a hearty one-pot meal to a clear broth or a smooth drink. It is often served with
smetana or
sour cream, hard-boiled eggs or potatoes, but there exists an ample choice of more involved
garnishes and side dishes, such as uszka or pampushky, that can be served with the soup. (Full article...)
Khrushchev was born in 1894 in a village in western Russia. He was employed as a
metal worker during his youth, and he was a
political commissar during the
Russian Civil War. Under the sponsorship of
Lazar Kaganovich, Khrushchev worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy. He originally supported
Stalin's purges and approved thousands of arrests. In 1938, Stalin sent him to govern the
Ukrainian SSR, and he continued the purges there. During what was known in the Soviet Union as the
Great Patriotic War, Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals. Khrushchev was present at the
defense of Stalingrad, a fact he took great pride in throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before being recalled to Moscow as one of Stalin's close advisers. (Full article...)
At the
2008 NHL Entry Draft, Filatov was selected sixth overall by the Blue Jackets. Filatov was the top-ranked European skater by the
NHL Central Scouting Bureau. Filatov played two seasons with the Blue Jackets organization. During the
2009–10 season, Filatov was unhappy with his situation in Columbus and was loaned to
CSKA Moscow for the remainder of the season. At the
2011 NHL Entry Draft, the Blue Jackets then traded him to Ottawa in exchange for a third-round draft pick. In December 2011, the Senators loaned Filatov to CSKA Moscow for the balance of the
2011–12 season. The following season, Filatov signed with Salavat Yulaev. The Senators chose not to tender Filatov a qualifying offer, making him a free agent. (Full article...)
Serving in the
Baltic Sea during
World War I, Slava was the largest ship of the Russian Gulf of Riga Squadron that fought the
German High Seas Fleet in the
Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. She repeatedly bombarded German positions and troops for the rest of 1915 and during 1916. During the
Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, Slava was badly damaged by the German
dreadnoughtSMS König, significantly increasing her draft. The shallow channel made it impossible to escape and she was
scuttled in the Moon Sound Strait between the island of
Muhu (Moon) and the mainland. The
Estoniansscrapped her during the 1930s. (Full article...)
Image 15
The official arrangement of the Russian national anthem, completed in 2001
An Alaskan parchment scrip banknote in the denomination of 1
ruble, printed on vellum or parchment by the
Russian-American Company. On the obverse, the horizontal text immediately beneath the double-headed eagle reads "Seal of the Russian American Company". The oval text reads "under august protection of His Imperial Majesty", and under the oval is the value of the note "one ruble".
Alaskan parchment scrip was used as a form of company scrip in Alaska when it was a possession of the Russian Empire. In circulation from 1816 to 1867, such scrip could be printed on vellum, parchment, or
pinniped skin. Denominations of 10, 25, 50 kopecks and 1, 5, 10, and 25 rubles were issued.
Gorky Park is a park in central
Moscow, Russia, inaugurated in 1928 following the use of the site in 1923 for the First All-Russian Agricultural and Handicraft Industries Exhibition. The park was named after the writer and political activist
Maxim Gorky. It underwent a major reconstruction in 2011; nearly all the amusement rides and other attractions were removed, extensive lawns and flower beds were created, and new roadways were laid. A 15,000 m2 (160,000 sq ft)
ice rink was installed at the same time. This picture shows the
colonnaded main portal of Gorky Park.
The Sukhoi Superjet 100 is a modern
fly-by-wiretwin-engineregional jet with 8 to 108 passenger seats. Development began in 2000; the aircraft had its
maiden flight on 19 May 2008 and entered commercial service on 21 April 2011. This aircraft is seen flying off the coast of Italy near
Sanremo.
This photo of the Nilov Monastery on
Stolobny Island in
Tver Oblast,
Russia, was taken by
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in 1910 before the advent of colour photography. His process used a camera that took a series of
monochrome pictures in rapid sequence, each through a different coloured filter. By projecting all three monochrome pictures using correctly coloured light, it was possible to reconstruct the original colour scene.
A female Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), a
subspecies of
tiger native to
Central Asia, and her cub. The Siberian tiger is the largest of the extant tiger subspecies as well as the largest
felid, attaining 320 kg (710 lb) in an exceptional specimen. Considered an
endangered subspecies, the wild population is down to several hundred individuals and is limited to eastern
Siberia.
Kombat (Russian for '
battalion commander') is a black-and-white photograph by Soviet photographer
Max Alpert. It depicts a Soviet military officer, armed with a
TT pistol, raising his unit for an attack during
World War II. This work is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, yet neither the date nor the subject is known with certainty. According to the most widely accepted version, it depicts junior politruk Aleksei Gordeyevich Yeryomenko, minutes before his death on 12 July 1942, in
Voroshilovgrad Oblast, now part of Ukraine. The photograph is in the archives of
RIA Novosti, a Russian state-owned news agency.
Sadko is a character in the Russian medieval epic Bylina. An adventurer, merchant and gusli musician from
Novgorod, Sadko becomes wealthy with the help of the
Sea Tsar, but is thrown in the sea when he fails to pay the Sea Tsar his due respects. This story was widely adapted in the 19th century, including in a poem by
Alexei Tolstoy and
an opera by
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Shown here is Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, an 1876 painting by
Ilya Repin. It depicts Sadko meeting the Sea Tsar under the sea.
Barge Haulers on the Volga is an oil painting on canvas completed between 1870 and 1873 by the
realist artist
Ilya Repin. It depicts eleven men
physically dragging a
barge on the banks of the
Volga River. Depicting these men as at the point of collapse, the work has been read as a condemnation of profit from inhumane labor. Barge Haulers on the Volga drew international praise for its realistic portrayal of the hardships of working men, and launched Repin's career. It has been described as "perhaps the most famous painting of the
Peredvizhniki movement [for]....its unflinching portrayal of backbreaking labor". Today, the painting hangs in the
Russian Museum in
Saint Petersburg.
Although
James Clerk Maxwell made the first color photograph in
1861, the results were far from realistic until Prokudin-Gorsky perfected the technique with a series of improvements around
1905. His process used a camera that took a series of monochrome pictures in rapid sequence, each through a different colored filter. Prokudin-Gorskii then went on to document much of the country of Russia, travelling by train in a specially equipped
darkroomrailroad car.
... that the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop to pair with a female figure skater from another country?
Vologda butterVologda butter, or Vologodskoye Maslo (Russian: Волого́дское ма́сло), formerly known as Parisian butter, is a type of
butter made in the
Vologda region of
Russia, known for its sweet, creamy and nutty flavor. It gets its flavor from its particular manufacturing process, which involves an exact set of temperatures and fat content; as well as due to the vegetation and breed of cows found in Vologda. (Full article...)
... that near the end of her life, feminist and educator Nadezhda Stasova wrote that Russian women "still have not learned to stop being men's slaves"?
... that the tanker MV Millennial Spirit sailed under a Moldovan flag, was crewed entirely by Russians, and was mistaken for a Romanian ship?
... that Russian scientist Dmitry Kolker was arrested on charges of espionage while being treated for terminal cancer at a hospital and flown to Moscow, dying two days later?
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Peresvet and Pobeda were
salvaged after the Japanese captured Port Arthur and incorporated into the
Imperial Japanese Navy. Peresvet was sold back to the Russians during
World War I, as the two countries were by now allies, and sank after hitting German
mines in the Mediterranean in early 1917 while Pobeda, renamed Suwo, remained instead in Japanese service and participated in the
Battle of Tsingtao in late 1914. She became a gunnery
training ship in 1917. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the
Washington Naval Treaty and probably
scrapped around that time. (Full article...)
Dubnium does not occur naturally on Earth and is produced artificially. The Soviet
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) claimed the first discovery of the element in 1968, followed by the American
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1970. Both teams proposed their names for the new element and used them without formal approval. The long-standing dispute was resolved in 1993 by an official investigation of the discovery claims by the Transfermium Working Group, formed by the
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, resulting in credit for the discovery being officially shared between both teams. The element was formally named dubnium in 1997 after the town of
Dubna, the site of the JINR. (Full article...)
In the early days of
sound cinema, among the various distinguished composers ready to try their hand at film music, Prokofiev was not an obvious choice for the commission. Based in Paris for almost a decade, he had a reputation for experimentation and
dissonance, characteristics at odds with the
cultural norms of the Soviet Union. By early 1933, however, Prokofiev was anxious to return to his homeland, and saw the film commission as an opportunity to write music in a more popular and accessible style. (Full article...)
The Shuttle–Mir program was a collaborative 11-mission space program between Russia and the United States that involved American
Space Shuttles visiting the Russian
space stationMir, Russian cosmonauts flying on the Shuttle, and an American astronaut flying aboard a
Soyuz spacecraft to engage in long-duration expeditions aboard Mir.
The project, sometimes called "Phase One", was intended to allow the United States to learn from Russian experience with long-duration spaceflight and to foster a spirit of cooperation between the two nations and their
space agencies, the US
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the
Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). The project helped to prepare the way for further cooperative space ventures; specifically, "Phase Two" of the joint project, the construction of the
International Space Station (ISS). The program was announced in 1993, the first mission started in 1994 and the project continued until its scheduled completion in 1998. Eleven Space Shuttle missions, a joint Soyuz flight and almost 1000 cumulative days in space for American astronauts occurred over the course of seven long-duration expeditions. In addition to Space Shuttle launches to Mir the United States also fully funded and equipped with scientific equipment the
Spektr module (launched in 1995) and the
Priroda module (launched in 1996), making them de facto U.S. modules during the duration of the Shuttle-Mir program. (Full article...)
The terrain complicated battle tactics for both sides, but the Russians and the Austrians, having arrived in the area first, were able to overcome many of its difficulties by strengthening a causeway between two small ponds. They had also devised a solution to Frederick's deadly modus operandi, the
oblique order. Although Frederick's troops initially gained the upper hand in the battle, his limited scouting, combined with the strong defensive preparations of the Allied troops, gave the Russians and Austrians an advantage. By afternoon, when the combatants were exhausted, fresh Austrian troops thrown into the fray secured the Allied victory. (Full article...)
Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva (Russian: Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева; 22 September [
O.S. 9 September] 1901 – 9 November 1932) was the second wife of
Joseph Stalin. She was born in
Baku to a friend of Stalin, a fellow revolutionary, and was raised in
Saint Petersburg. Having known Stalin from a young age, she married him when she was 17, and they had two children. Alliluyeva worked as a secretary for
Bolshevik leaders, including
Vladimir Lenin and Stalin, before enrolling at the
Industrial Academy in Moscow to study
synthetic fibres and become an engineer. She had health issues, which had an adverse impact on her relationship with Stalin. She also suspected he was
unfaithful, which led to frequent arguments with him. On several occasions, Alliluyeva reportedly contemplated leaving Stalin, and after an argument, she fatally shot herself early in the morning of 7 November 1932. (Full article...)
Euler is held to be one of the greatest, most prolific mathematicians in history and the greatest of the 18th century. Several great mathematicians who produced their work after Euler's death have recognised his importance in the field as shown by quotes attributed to many of them:
Pierre-Simon Laplace expressed Euler's influence on mathematics by stating, "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all."
Carl Friedrich Gauss wrote: "The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics, and nothing else can replace it." His 866 publications as well as his correspondences are being collected in the Opera Omnia Leonhard Euler which, when completed, will consist of 81 quartos. He spent most of his adult life in
Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in
Berlin, then the capital of
Prussia. (Full article...)
Image 10
German reconnaissance picture of Sovetsky Soyuz taken in June 1942
The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23,
Russian: Советский Союз, "Soviet Union"), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of
battleships begun by the
Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the
Bismarck-class battleships being built by Germany. Only four hulls of the fifteen originally planned had been
laid down by 1940, when the decision was made to cut the program to only three ships to divert resources to an expanded army rearmament program.
These ships would have rivaled the
Imperial JapaneseYamato class and America's planned
Montana class in size if any had been completed, although with significantly weaker firepower: nine 406-millimeter (16 in) guns compared to the nine 460-millimeter (18.1 in) guns of the Japanese ships and a dozen 16-inch (406 mm) on the Montanas. The failure of the Soviet armor plate industry to build
cemented armor plates thicker than 230 millimeters (9.1 in) would have negated any advantages from the Sovetsky Soyuz class's thicker armor in combat. (Full article...)
Image 11
A bowl of borscht garnished with sour cream and dill
Borscht (English: /ˈbɔːrʃt/ⓘ) is a
sour soup, made with meat
stock, vegetables and seasonings, common in
Eastern Europe and
Northern Asia. In English, the word borscht is most often associated with the soup's variant of
Ukrainian origin, made with red
beetroots as one of the main ingredients, which give the dish its distinctive red color. The same name, however, is also used for a wide selection of sour-tasting soups without beetroots, such as
sorrel-based
green borscht,
rye-based
white borscht, and
cabbage borscht.
Borscht derives from an ancient soup originally cooked from pickled stems, leaves and
umbels of
common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium), an
herbaceous plant growing in damp meadows, which lent the dish its
Slavic name. With time, it evolved into a diverse array of tart soups, among which the Ukrainian beet-based red borscht has become the most popular. It is typically made by combining meat or bone
stock with
sautéed vegetables, which—as well as beetroots—usually include cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, and tomatoes. Depending on the recipe, borscht may include meat or fish, or be purely vegetarian; it may be served either hot or cold, and it may range from a hearty one-pot meal to a clear broth or a smooth drink. It is often served with
smetana or
sour cream, hard-boiled eggs or potatoes, but there exists an ample choice of more involved
garnishes and side dishes, such as uszka or pampushky, that can be served with the soup. (Full article...)
Khrushchev was born in 1894 in a village in western Russia. He was employed as a
metal worker during his youth, and he was a
political commissar during the
Russian Civil War. Under the sponsorship of
Lazar Kaganovich, Khrushchev worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy. He originally supported
Stalin's purges and approved thousands of arrests. In 1938, Stalin sent him to govern the
Ukrainian SSR, and he continued the purges there. During what was known in the Soviet Union as the
Great Patriotic War, Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals. Khrushchev was present at the
defense of Stalingrad, a fact he took great pride in throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before being recalled to Moscow as one of Stalin's close advisers. (Full article...)
At the
2008 NHL Entry Draft, Filatov was selected sixth overall by the Blue Jackets. Filatov was the top-ranked European skater by the
NHL Central Scouting Bureau. Filatov played two seasons with the Blue Jackets organization. During the
2009–10 season, Filatov was unhappy with his situation in Columbus and was loaned to
CSKA Moscow for the remainder of the season. At the
2011 NHL Entry Draft, the Blue Jackets then traded him to Ottawa in exchange for a third-round draft pick. In December 2011, the Senators loaned Filatov to CSKA Moscow for the balance of the
2011–12 season. The following season, Filatov signed with Salavat Yulaev. The Senators chose not to tender Filatov a qualifying offer, making him a free agent. (Full article...)
Serving in the
Baltic Sea during
World War I, Slava was the largest ship of the Russian Gulf of Riga Squadron that fought the
German High Seas Fleet in the
Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. She repeatedly bombarded German positions and troops for the rest of 1915 and during 1916. During the
Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, Slava was badly damaged by the German
dreadnoughtSMS König, significantly increasing her draft. The shallow channel made it impossible to escape and she was
scuttled in the Moon Sound Strait between the island of
Muhu (Moon) and the mainland. The
Estoniansscrapped her during the 1930s. (Full article...)
Image 15
The official arrangement of the Russian national anthem, completed in 2001
An Alaskan parchment scrip banknote in the denomination of 1
ruble, printed on vellum or parchment by the
Russian-American Company. On the obverse, the horizontal text immediately beneath the double-headed eagle reads "Seal of the Russian American Company". The oval text reads "under august protection of His Imperial Majesty", and under the oval is the value of the note "one ruble".
Alaskan parchment scrip was used as a form of company scrip in Alaska when it was a possession of the Russian Empire. In circulation from 1816 to 1867, such scrip could be printed on vellum, parchment, or
pinniped skin. Denominations of 10, 25, 50 kopecks and 1, 5, 10, and 25 rubles were issued.
Gorky Park is a park in central
Moscow, Russia, inaugurated in 1928 following the use of the site in 1923 for the First All-Russian Agricultural and Handicraft Industries Exhibition. The park was named after the writer and political activist
Maxim Gorky. It underwent a major reconstruction in 2011; nearly all the amusement rides and other attractions were removed, extensive lawns and flower beds were created, and new roadways were laid. A 15,000 m2 (160,000 sq ft)
ice rink was installed at the same time. This picture shows the
colonnaded main portal of Gorky Park.
The Sukhoi Superjet 100 is a modern
fly-by-wiretwin-engineregional jet with 8 to 108 passenger seats. Development began in 2000; the aircraft had its
maiden flight on 19 May 2008 and entered commercial service on 21 April 2011. This aircraft is seen flying off the coast of Italy near
Sanremo.
This photo of the Nilov Monastery on
Stolobny Island in
Tver Oblast,
Russia, was taken by
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in 1910 before the advent of colour photography. His process used a camera that took a series of
monochrome pictures in rapid sequence, each through a different coloured filter. By projecting all three monochrome pictures using correctly coloured light, it was possible to reconstruct the original colour scene.
A female Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), a
subspecies of
tiger native to
Central Asia, and her cub. The Siberian tiger is the largest of the extant tiger subspecies as well as the largest
felid, attaining 320 kg (710 lb) in an exceptional specimen. Considered an
endangered subspecies, the wild population is down to several hundred individuals and is limited to eastern
Siberia.
Kombat (Russian for '
battalion commander') is a black-and-white photograph by Soviet photographer
Max Alpert. It depicts a Soviet military officer, armed with a
TT pistol, raising his unit for an attack during
World War II. This work is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, yet neither the date nor the subject is known with certainty. According to the most widely accepted version, it depicts junior politruk Aleksei Gordeyevich Yeryomenko, minutes before his death on 12 July 1942, in
Voroshilovgrad Oblast, now part of Ukraine. The photograph is in the archives of
RIA Novosti, a Russian state-owned news agency.
Sadko is a character in the Russian medieval epic Bylina. An adventurer, merchant and gusli musician from
Novgorod, Sadko becomes wealthy with the help of the
Sea Tsar, but is thrown in the sea when he fails to pay the Sea Tsar his due respects. This story was widely adapted in the 19th century, including in a poem by
Alexei Tolstoy and
an opera by
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Shown here is Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, an 1876 painting by
Ilya Repin. It depicts Sadko meeting the Sea Tsar under the sea.
Barge Haulers on the Volga is an oil painting on canvas completed between 1870 and 1873 by the
realist artist
Ilya Repin. It depicts eleven men
physically dragging a
barge on the banks of the
Volga River. Depicting these men as at the point of collapse, the work has been read as a condemnation of profit from inhumane labor. Barge Haulers on the Volga drew international praise for its realistic portrayal of the hardships of working men, and launched Repin's career. It has been described as "perhaps the most famous painting of the
Peredvizhniki movement [for]....its unflinching portrayal of backbreaking labor". Today, the painting hangs in the
Russian Museum in
Saint Petersburg.
Although
James Clerk Maxwell made the first color photograph in
1861, the results were far from realistic until Prokudin-Gorsky perfected the technique with a series of improvements around
1905. His process used a camera that took a series of monochrome pictures in rapid sequence, each through a different colored filter. Prokudin-Gorskii then went on to document much of the country of Russia, travelling by train in a specially equipped
darkroomrailroad car.
... that the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop to pair with a female figure skater from another country?
Vologda butterVologda butter, or Vologodskoye Maslo (Russian: Волого́дское ма́сло), formerly known as Parisian butter, is a type of
butter made in the
Vologda region of
Russia, known for its sweet, creamy and nutty flavor. It gets its flavor from its particular manufacturing process, which involves an exact set of temperatures and fat content; as well as due to the vegetation and breed of cows found in Vologda. (Full article...)
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