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How the Moscow Metro became a true underground city in 1941 (PHOTOS)
How & why was Lenin's Mausoleum repeatedly attacked?
Ethnic groups of Russia: Chukchi
10 facts about the first woman in space (PHOTOS)
The life of Catherine the Great on canvas by artists (PICS)
Why didn't the Red Army wear shoulder straps until mid-WWII?
Ethnic groups of Russia: Nenets
Did you know that the USSR was founded in… the Bolshoi Theater?!
Why was the USSR so obsessed with landing on the Moon, but never actually did?
How the descendants of Genghis Khan served Russia
The life of Peter the Great in paintings
Ethnic groups of Russia: Karachays
How Soviet ‘Rockets’ ended up in London
What was going on in Russia when Columbus discovered America?
How Russian Emperor Paul I was assassinated
How Soviet partisans terrorized the Nazis (PHOTOS)
Ethnic groups of Russia: Altaians
How the Poles once carried out a massacre in Moscow
Brief history of Russian submariners in PHOTOS
Why did German captivity become a living HELL for Soviet soldiers? (PHOTOS)
Ethnic groups of Russia: Yakuts
What started the war between the USSR & Finland?
Ethnic groups of Russia: Evenki
How Soviet soldiers fought the Nazis… on aerosleds (PHOTOS)
What was going on in Russia when Joan of Arc was being burned at the stake in France?
How the Russians tried to drive the Turks out of Europe
Is it true that 'General Frost' defeated the Germans near Moscow?
What was going on in Russia when the United States declared independence?
Ethnic groups of Russia: Avars
How did Soviet soldiers pass the time during World War II? (PHOTOS)
Which foreigners ruled Russia? (PICS)
From British ‘frenches’ to ‘Afghankas’: 5 facts about Soviet military uniform (PHOTOS)
The Soviet Army in photos
Ethnic groups of Russia: Kalmyks
What's going on in this painting by Karl Bryullov?
What was going on in Russia when the ‘Great Depression’ began in the United States?
Only these two became four-time ‘Heroes of the Soviet Union’
Ethnic groups of Russia: Mansi
What was going on in Russia when the Reformation began in Germany?
Did you know that there's a ‘Doomsday’ radio station operating in Russia?
How Alexander Pushkin once fought with the Russian army
Is it true that Stalin once robbed banks?
Ethnic groups of Russia: Ingush
The first Russian to fly in a… hot air balloon!
What was happening in Russia while the Wars of the Roses were raging in England?
How Soviet cavalrymen fought for… the TSAR!
Ethnic groups of Russia: Buryats
How a Canadian tried to take an ISLAND from Russia
What was going on in Russia during the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
How the Vietnamese once helped defend… Moscow from the Nazis!
How the Soviet Union’s LARGEST bank heist was pulled off (PHOTOS)
5 little-known facts about Lenin's Mausoleum
What was going on in Russia when the era of Louis XIV, the ‘Sun King’, ended?
Top 30 Russian villains in Hollywood blockbusters (PHOTOS)
How a close associate of Nicholas II's family became a Soviet comedic actor
How the USSR tried to build a subterrene
What was going on in Russia during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris?
How a simple thief became a famous Moscow detective
What was going on in Russia when the Aztec Empire fell?
3 women who DISGUISED themselves as men during the war (PICS + PHOTOS)
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