Flickr user Beniah Brawn has many sets of fasc...  ...has many sets of fascinating vintage photographs. Russian Types is a collection of early portraits of Mosco...  ...sburg produced series of cartes-de-visite showing Russian 'types.' These remarkable portraits provide a fas...

(YouTube link) What are these people in Moscow lined up for? Jobs? Cash? No, about 30,000 people lined up for the opportunity to eat at the first McDonalds to open in the city, in 1990. -via Buzzfeed...

This music video relates the history of the Soviet Union with a clever song set to the Tetris theme (Korobeiniki), both the music and the game itself. Music by Pig With The Face Of A Boy. Honestly, it's awesome. Link...

Watch Russian military tanks maneuvering as if they were dancin...  ...the head of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia , which includes the world-famous Bolshoi Theater,...  ...how he produced skips like a fake gemstone across Russian history, from the violent founding...

(Break.com link) A leisure firm in Golubitska...  ...promotional stunt. After the video was released, Russian police began investigating the matter and may fil...

(Live Leak link) Heavy rains in St. Petersburg flooded the streets. What's a woman to do? This act of chivalry not only kept them dry, but also made the women recording the video squeal with delight. There's also a bo...

In 1970, during the Luna 17 mission, the Soviet space program landed the first ever remote-controlled vehicle on the moon. Lunokhod 1 spent eleven months taking pictures of the moon's surface, and sent back about 20,000...

When Leonid Murlyanchik retired, he spat on the sh...  ...984 single-handedly designing and digging his own Russian metro; and you thought it was cool when your gran...  ...ndfather built you a clubhouse out of plywood... Russian hero Leonid Murlyanchik has been building his met...

(YouTube link) Russian authorities shut down a seven-kilometer-long brid...  ...the entire bridge, which is the longest in Europe Russia . The video is reminiscent of the Tacoma Narrows B...

There have been many instances of online communiti...  ...incident involves Metafilter members who kept two Russian girls from becoming sex slaves when they arrived...  ...ess concerned about the immigration status of two Russian women than they will be about potentially bringin...