January 30, 2023 Russia Energy and Environment Facts Natural resources and energy Russia has plenty of assets on oil, natural gas, gold, diamonds, iron ore, nickel and other valuable minerals. The main…
June 30, 2022 Komsomolsk State Nature Reserve, Russia Not far from Komsomolsk-on-Amur is the Komsomolsk State Nature Reserve. It was founded in 1963 in the basin of the Gorin River (the left…
March 10, 2022 Russia Language As far as the dialectal differentiation of the Eastern-Slavic speakers (see Slavs) is not very pronounced, yet three literary languages are found today on…
February 26, 2022 Russia Medieval Arts Part 5 In the century 14 ° the itinerant shops and the immigrant artists (for ex. Theophanes the Greek) were above all mediators of the succession…
February 25, 2022 Russia Medieval Arts Part 4 The massive construction of the load-bearing and dividing walls is connected to the structure of the free, wall and corner pillars. Vertically the shapes…
February 24, 2022 Russia Medieval Arts Part 3 Five naves with as many apses, twelve supports (pillars instead of Constantinopolitan columns), two ambulatories, large U-shaped tribune, ‘stepped’ elevation, thirteen domes on tambour,…
February 23, 2022 Russia Medieval Arts Part 2 The vastness and impenetrability of the region, with scarce settlements and reduced population density, its geographical position between the Europe and Asia, the peasant…
February 22, 2022 Russia Medieval Arts Part 1 Vast region of Eastern Europe extending from the Pontic-Baltic isthmus to the Ural Mountains. From the political point of view, the term designates the…
February 21, 2022 Russia in the Early 1990’s Part 6 In the following year, 1999, all the elements of the profound and complex crisis – relating to the political-institutional and economic-financial fields, as well…
February 20, 2022 Russia in the Early 1990’s Part 5 The undoubted successes achieved in the field of international relations by Russian diplomacy were partly clouded when, by putting an end to a long…
February 19, 2022 Russia in the Early 1990’s Part 4 To face the threat and in anticipation of a difficult electoral campaign – the one for the election of the president called for June…
February 18, 2022 Russia in the Early 1990’s Part 3 Particularly serious was the conflict (made clear by the non-renewal, in the spring of 1993, of the extraordinary powers attributed to El´cin in November…
February 17, 2022 Russia in the Early 1990’s Part 2 To cope with the social tensions and the pressure of the opposition that meanwhile was gaining strength within the republican Parliament, El´cin had removed…
February 16, 2022 Russia in the Early 1990’s Part 1 Russia or the Russian Federation was born as an independent state on December 25, 1991, when the last president of the USSR, M. Gorbachev,…
February 15, 2022 The Russia During the Second World War Part 9 The final offensive. – The maneuver of the final offensive takes place in a large quadrilateral: to the north, the Baltic coast; Oder-Neisse to…
February 14, 2022 The Russia During the Second World War Part 8 The invasion of Romania and the Balkan countries. – The four groups of qualified “Ukrainian” armies, under the orders of Žukov (I), Malinovskij (II),…
February 13, 2022 The Russia During the Second World War Part 7 Offensive of the summer – autumn 1944. – At the end of June, the summer campaign starts simultaneously in the northern and central sectors; in the…
February 12, 2022 The Russia During the Second World War Part 6 The resumption of the Soviet offensive. – Operations were resumed after a stop of about 4 months in the southern sector and on the…
February 11, 2022 The Russia During the Second World War Part 5 The march to the Caucasus. – On 11 July the group of armies B enters the stage which, with the first armored army, flanked…
February 10, 2022 The Russia During the Second World War Part 4 The Moscow maneuver. – According to itypeauto.com, the indecisive battle of Smolensk had halted the advance on Moscow. The German general staff prepared the…
February 9, 2022 The Russia During the Second World War Part 3 On 12 August the von Kleist armored group fought northwest of Nikolaev and threatened this square. The Soviets abandoned it on August 14; so…
February 8, 2022 The Russia During the Second World War Part 2 Further south, the von Kleist armored group was heading decisively in the direction of Dubno and, bumping into the Soviet 12th Army, attempting to…
February 7, 2022 The Russia During the Second World War Part 1 Under the heading world war, in this second Appendix, the political situation as a result of which Germany was induced to attack the USSR…
August 7, 2021 Russia Geography Geography in Russia At around 17 million square kilometers, Russia is by far the largest country in the world and comprises around eleven percent…
June 6, 2021 Russia Culture Typically Russian: Matryoshka and Fabergé eggs If you travel to Russia, you will probably bring a matryoshka as a souvenir. These are small wooden…
