Russian schools offer no formal sex education. This vacuum has, however, been filled by popular bloggers assuming the role of sex gurus for teens and adults. You, too, should check them out if you want to spice up your Russian vocabulary.

Not everyone in the biggest country in the world has the luxury of easily filling up a car, much less streaming a video. Some people have to go through hell and resort to desperate measures just to fulfill these simple functions.

Decades before the international success of his movie ‘Dersu Uzala’, the filmmaker cultivated a strong liking for Russian literature and dreamt of spending time in the country’s wild nature.

Okhotny Ryad holds the record for the most different names, having changed names four times over the years.

Like the Japanese in the Pacific, the Germans in Europe had their own unit of suicide pilots. The last hope of the Third Reich, they too failed to alter the outcome of the war.