2018 FIFA World Cup Russia 14 June to 15 July 2018 The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men’s national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded …
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Heaviest train pulled: Russia set World Record
Smolyaninovo, Russia – March 1, 2017 – Russian Powerlifting champion Ivan Savkin managed to pull a 288-ton electric train a total distance of 1.1 metres in Primorsky Krai’s village of Smolyaninovo, thus setting the new world record for the Heaviest train pulled. Photo: One of the world’s strongest “human tow trucks,” Vladivostok resident Ivan Savkin managed to pull a 288-ton …
Read More »Russia sets World Record: Largest mobile skating ring
Moscow, Russia – December 8, 2016 – Figure skaters and hockey players from capital sporting schools tested a giant skating rink with an ice surface of 20,1 thousand sq.m at VDNH (the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy), which sets the new world record for the Largest mobile skating ring with artificial ice surface. Photo: Figure skaters and hockey players …
Read More »Russia Guinness World Record: Largest Greek Salad
Moscow, Russia – October 8, 2016 – Petros Lambrinidis, a Greek chef from Crete, managed to create a gigantic 20-tonne salad with the help of over 1,000 volunteers in Moscow’s Red Square, thus setting the new world record for the Largest Greek Salad (Largest Salad), according to the World Record Academy. Photo: Petros Lambrinidis managed to create the gigantic 20-tons …
Read More »Largest swimwear parade on skis: Russia breaks record
Sochi, Russia – April 21, 2016 – More than 1,000 Russian skiers take to the Sochi slopes in bikinis and swimsuits in pursuit of breaking the Guinness World Record; the event was part of the BoogelWoogel mountain carnival at the site of the 2014 Olympics. Photo: Skiers and snow boarders descend from a slope as they attempt to break the …
Read More »Russian Wedding Traditions & Customs
A wedding is a great event in everyone’s life. In India, it is done with a great deal of ceremony. In our films, a large number of stories are based upon weddings. The amount of money spent sometimes constitutes the entire life’s savings of a person. It is an occasion where young boys get to meet young girls, old people …
Read More »Which vast region in the Russian Federation stretches from the Ural Mountains to Alaska?
Siberia, much of northern Siberia lies inside the Arctic Circle. Most of the population live close to the Trans-Siberian Railways, which runs from Moscow to Vladivostok.
Read More »What is the Russian avantegarde movement?
The term avante garde refers generally to art for the sake of social progress. But sometimes, the term is also used to refer to experimental and innovative art without any specific social purpose. The term is used with the former meaning in Russia, which experienced a great art reform in the period 1917-1932 in the wake of the Russian revolution. …
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Social Science Questions & Answers About Diwali Lakshmi Puja? Are gorillas man-eaters? Are snakes really modified lizards? Are there any real Castles in the world? Are there such things as fairies? As dead as the dodo At what time of day does Ayers Rock in Central Australia change color? Between whom was the battle of Haldighati fought? Can all venomous …
Read More »A Fragile Twig: Pavel Bazhov Story from the Urals
Danilo and Katya – her that got her man out of the Mistress’ mountain – had a big family of children. Eight of the, and all lads. Their mother used to complain, times – why couldn’t there be just one girl among them all to please your eye? But their father would just laugh. “Looks like we don’t know how …
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