Samotychny Boulevard
The name of the boulevard is connected to the Samotyetsky pond, which was located at Samotyek, the old name of the Neglinnaya River.
To the north of the square stretches a chain of parks: Durovsky and Ekaterininsky squa…
Borisoglebsky Monastery in Rostov
Exact documentary information about the time of the monastery's foundation has not survived to this day. The first hermit, Fyodor, settled on the banks of the Ustya River, arriving from Novgorod. Three years later, Pavel…
Barkov Mill in Novoivanovka
Barkov Mill in the village of Novoivanovka, Volokonovsky District, Belgorod Region, Russia, is a unique steam mill building, a monument of architecture from the late 19th century. It is the only six-story log building fr…
Krapivenskoe Hillfort
Krapivenskoe Hillfort has been settled multiple times over the last two thousand years. The oldest traces of culture found here date back to the 5th and 4th centuries BC. These artifacts belong to the local forest-steppe…
Dmitrievskoye Hillfort
Dmitrievskoye Hillfort is an archaeological complex of the Saltovo-Mayak culture, including a fortress, settlement, and burial ground. It is located on the right bank of the Korochya River, near the modern villages of Dm…
Monument to Alexander Matrosov (Anzhero-Sudzhensk)
Initially, the street was named after Alexander Matrosov. The plans for the construction of the Southern microdistrict included a square named after A. Matrosov with a monument to the hero of the Great Patriotic War.
Th…
Doctor Zernov's Sanatorium (Essentuki)
In 1901, at the initiative of Moscow doctor M. S. Zernov, the construction of the first health resort of the Essentuki Auxiliary Society began in Essentuki. It was a sanatorium for the underprivileged, created according …
Belgorod Museum of Folk Culture
The idea of creating a museum of folk culture in the Belgorod region, known for its singing and folklore traditions and having preserved examples of traditional clothing, belongs to Andrey Vladimirovich Kulabukhov, who l…
Kizhi Pogost
Kizhi Island, located in the northeastern part of Lake Onega, is one of 1369 islands. Its length is about 5.5 km, and its width at the widest point reaches 1.4 km.
The history of Kizhi goes back to ancient times when th…
Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden Institute (Apatity)
The idea of creating a permanent botanical station in the Khibiny Mountains was first proposed by geobotanist V. N. Sukachev after the 1920 expedition. However, in the early 1920s, there were no funds to realize this ide…
