Getting to these places is an adventure in itself! Some of them are dangerous and pose a threat to life and you’ll need to bypass security to get to others.

This incredible floating mission control center employed 71 antennae and four giant satellite dishes, two of which weighed a combined 480 tons!

Rare animals and stunning views of Russia’s most beautiful and inaccessible places by top photographers.

Russians, like any people, get asked peculiar questions that stem from outdated, overblown, or wholly inaccurate stereotypes, many of which are remnants from the image of the USSR. Below are some of the oddest questions I, or other Russians I know, have had to answer on more than one occasion.

The last empress broke a centuries-old tradition of the Romanov royal family, and many of her contemporaries believed this was a tragic omen.