Be careful! If dill and ‘kholodets’ don’t finish you off, vodka definitely will. Our readers share their personal experience of surviving all things Russian.

We bet you’ve never heard of these knives used by Russian marine infantry, special forces and airborne troops.

Thanks to the last Soviet leader, production of the Chaika, the most beautiful car in the country, was stopped, and all tech documentation and equipment destroyed. The damage was so huge that all later attempts to restore production failed.

If you don’t like carrying cash, a trip to Russia won't be easy for you. Russians do use credit cards but they still live according to the rule: ‘Cash first.’