07 November 2024
Murmansk is the world's largest city located above the Arctic Circle and one of the largest ports in Russia. Thanks to the warm current, Murmansk is a frost-free port.
01 October 2024
Sochi is an all-year-round tourist destination with a great variety of activities and places of interest, located in the very south of Russia, on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, a 3.5-hour flight from Moscow.
15 April 2021
The annual event Scarlet Sails will be held on June 25 in St. Petersburg. "The format of the event and its location will be determined by the organizing committee based on the epidemic situation," the press service of the St. Petersburg Administration says.
12 April 2021
This week we are celebrating the International Day of Human Space Flight. This day is a special day for our country - a day of pride, as on April 12, 1961, a citizen of the Soviet Union, Yuri Gagarin, for the first time in the world made an orbital flyby of the Earth, opening the era of manned space flights.
08 April 2021
Russian News Agency TASS and its educational project Newm together with the Museum of Cosmonautics of Moscow have launched a new project - a series of videos dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. The first of the three stories introduces viewers to the process of rocketing the Vostok launch vehicle and placing the spacecraft in orbit.
05 April 2021
Stravinsky Days will be celebrated with concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The event, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the composer's death, will be held from 4 to 6 April in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Maestro Valery Gergiev has opened the Igor Stravinsky Days at the Mariinsky Theater on April 04.
01 April 2021
The second contemporary art fair and international art forum Art Russia opens at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow. It will run from the 1st to the 4th of April and will present works by leading Russian artists.
25 March 2021
The annual cultural event Night of Museums will take place on May 22. This year the Night of Museums will be held in the traditional format and the main theme will be Sound.
22 March 2021
The Bach Days Music Festival, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, opened on Sunday in Kaliningrad. The Cathedral of Kaliningrad is the organizer of this creative project with the participation of eminent musicians.
18 March 2021
The Mariinsky Theatre plans to host a series of musical festivals dedicated to outstanding Russian composers which will take the audience through the cities associated with the names and works of the composers.
11 March 2021
On Tuesday, March 16, a Museum of the History of the 20th Century Literature opens in Moscow in the central building of the State Literary Museum on Zubovsky Boulevard. The exposition includes genuine items from the collections of the Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature and private collections, supplemented by multimedia projects.
11 March 2021
This week in Russia and some neighbouring countries the Maslenitsa celebrations begin - this is a Slavic traditional holiday that marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring. The date of Maslenitsa changes every year depending on the date of the celebration of Easter
