Russia the Beautiful

Andrey Grachev's photos provide a rare glimpse inside the frozen grotto on a Olkhon Island at Lake Baikal. Many adventurers have fallen through the ice but he ignored the dangers to capture the cave in a beautiful sunlight. Andrey, from Moscow, found hundreds of icy stalactites and huge blocks of

A luxury underground made of marble and granite, the Moscow Metro is not just a means of public transport, but a special place full of impressive artworks dating to the epoch of socialist realism. RIR has mapped out its own route along Moscow’s most interesting Metro stations. There are 12 lines

The Far North is a limitless space with pure air, roads and rivers stretching beyond the horizon, polar nights, polar days and, of course, the aurora borealis. Salekhard, Labytnangi and Khanty-Mansiysk are three towns where the New Year holidays promise to be unforgettable. Spending a holiday

Every year people across Russia bath in the ice-cold rivers and ponds over the night of January 18-19, braving the freezing winter temperatures to celebrate the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany, the baptism of Jesus. Check out these photos from different parts of the country that would steal

There is an astonishing place in Khanty-Mansiysk (capital of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug) named Archaeopark. It is a park of sculptures of Pleistocene animals and early man. This department of the Museum of Nature and Man is located in a picturesque place, where one can easily absorbed in