The cause of death of a group of hikers on an expedition in the Northern Urals in 1959 has remained a mystery for more than 60 years. There have been close to a hundred theories of what may have happened to them. Recently, the Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office has announced the results of its investigation.

This is what communism looked like in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan when they were Soviet republics.

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers a distinctive monument in Russia’s historic heartland.

Russia has seen plenty of meteoroids in its lifetime, but (thankfully) only a small number of celestial bodies actually landed anywhere near populated areas.

Alexander Baranov called himself the “Pizarro of Russia,” but was he just as cruel and as famous as the Spanish conquistador?