great patriotic war

Evgeniy Khaldey/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru/

What animals were mobilized in the USSR during World War II

Gennady Shishkin / Sputnik

Did you know that the heroine of the song ‘Katyusha’ had a prototype?

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: ТАСС; Public domain)

How an 18-year-old girl became a hero of the USSR

Leonid Golovanov; Archive photo

The sniper who reached Berlin after his death

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: Getty Images; Public domain)

This descendant of Pushkin & Tsar Alexander II fought AGAINST Russia

Fedor Kislov / TASS

Moscow turns 870: how the white-stoned Third Rome changed over centuries