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Off the beaten track: hidden Russia revealed

April 25, 2012 Roger Williams
A major investment program is helping to transform Russia’s more remote regions into world-class tourist destinations

The way we were: Communism revisited

April 24, 2012 Daria Gonzales
Statues, buildings and smaller mementoes of the recent past have been preserved as a reminder of Communist times

Russia’s 12 oldest ancient monuments

April 20, 2012 Dmitry Kikot
In this latest installment of the Russian Dozen, RBTH explores six monuments from the time when Russia was inhabited by early primitive peoples, and six ancient Christian monuments created by the ancestors of the Russians

The Golitsyn Church at Dubrovitsy: A Passion for Divine art

April 13, 2012 William Brumfield
Church at Dubrovitsy represents at once an extreme of Muscovite ornamentalism and the quickening pace of Westernization that would turn Russian architecture from Byzantium to Rome

The authorities seek an alternative to the Rossiya

April 12, 2012 Tatyana Shramchenko
More than 100 applications have been submitted for a competition to build the Zaryadye Park, which will rise on the site of the demolished Rossiya Hotel in central Moscow. Some projects are strikingly original, others ambitions, and still others push

Moscow faces the global challenge of the local architect

April 12, 2012 Darya Luganskaya, Moskovskiye Novosti
Russians are voting for the best project to develop the site of the demolished Rossiya Hotel near the Kremlin. The contest will run through April 20. One of its participants - architect Alexis Gaden of Lyon – explains why he wants to work in Moscow

A great tower turns 90

March 27, 2012 Anisia Boroznova
An architectural monument in central Moscow was the work of the same engineer who made transporting much of Russia’s oil and gas wealth possible

How to deal with art in Russia

March 26, 2012 Anisia Boroznova
The Central House of Artists (TsDKh) is the largest exhibition center in Russia

Totma: From the Russian North to Russian America

February 24, 2012 William Brumfield
Now a small town off the beaten path, Totma’s unique mix of architecture styles reflects its changing fortunes throughout the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

A Decembrist descendant returns

January 24, 2012 Katerina Afonchenkova
The story of Swiss financier Christopher Mouravieff-Apostol, a descendent of an illustrious Russian family who rented and renovated his ancestors’ Moscow mansion, is perhaps a first in contemporary Russian reality

The beauty of Soviet brutalism

December 2, 2011 TASCHEN
French photographer Frédéric Chaubin made a record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR.

Building the revolution

November 14, 2011 Phoebe Taplin
Exhibition of Soviet art and architecture opens at the Royal Academy of Arts in London

Grand hotel: the iconic Ukraina is reborn as an ‘oasis of elegant luxury’

October 27, 2011 Alena Tveritina
It now has all the elements of a five-star hotel, but the old trimmings still remain

A chasm between projects and buildings

October 25, 2011 Anisia Boroznova
The sad tale of foreign architects and their attempts to conquer Russia

Seven Sisters, emblems of Soviet grandeur, light up Moscow skyline

October 25, 2011 Tino Kyuntsel
Built by Stalin as emblems of victory and symbols of a new era, the seven colossal skyscrapers still stand out amid new high-rises.

“Green Arc” to save people from climate change

October 24, 2011 Julia Galiullina, Voice of Russia
Russian scientists have come up with the project of eco-city which would safeguard its residents against any hostile whims from the environment.

Goodbye, my Nizhni Novgorod

October 6, 2011 Anna Nemtsova, special to Russia Beyond the Headlines
It was not the city’s fate to get destroyed in war: Houses fall here in peacetime

Vladimir: Medieval Russian treasure

September 13, 2011 William Brumfield
The city's power during the medieval period is reflected in the magnificent churches still standing throughout the area

Discovering Holland – in Russia

July 28, 2011 Anna Pushkarskaya, Kommersant
St. Petersburg's New Holland Island gets a redesign courtesy of Roman Abramovich

12 Russian wonders

December 30, 2010 Natalya Fedotova, Vladislav Kuzmichev
In addition to the long New Year’s holiday, Russia boasts a number of other miracles, both natural and man-made
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