The Sutyagin House, once the residence of a Russian crime lord, was claimed to be the world’s tallest wooden building News Featured
The Gulag system of the Soviet Union was so harsh that one prisoner cut his hand off with an axe in order to get into the hospital to relax for at least a couple of days. News
The aircraft graveyard at the former Khodynka Aerodrome: Historic planes have been left to rot on what used to be Moscow’s oldest airfield News Abandoned Spaces
Russia’s Star City: Once a secret Soviet city where cosmonauts have lived & trained since the 1960s News Featured
Colorized stereographs of the Russo-Japanese War from 1905, offer a rare glimpse into one of the first conflicts with modern weaponry Strangeness