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Night Watch (Russian: «Ночной Дозор») is a fantasy novel by the Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko, the first to feature his fictional world of The Others. The book was first published in Russia by AST in 1998. The story revolves around a confrontation between two opposing supernatural groups (known as "Others"): the Night Watch, an ...
A Summer in the Red Scarf (A Summer in a Pioneer Time): The first book in the series tells the story of Yury, a shy 16-year-old, who arrives at a Soviet Pioneer camp in the summer of 1986, and Volodya, a 18-year-old undergraduate who serves as Yury's group leader. As the two boys fall in love and tentatively discover their sexuality, they face ...
EnglishRussia was a popular photoblog focusing on unusual aspects of Russian or former-Soviet culture. In 2007 Technorati rated it the 155th most popular website out of 94 million on its search engine. [1] It was created by a Russian software technician and is currently more popular in America than in Russia. [2]
Pilot is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. It was founded in 1988 by Alexander Tatarsky, Igor Kovalyov, Anatoly Prokhorov, and Igor Gelashvili, becoming the first private animation studio in the Soviet Union. They aimed at both auteur and commercial animation. [1] [2]
Russia portal Soviet Union portal This category is for Fictional characters from Russia or of Russian descent; including characters from the commonwealth , federal subjects , states and territories from all major eras of its existence ( Great Russia , Russian Empire , Soviet Union , and Russian Federation ).
One of Onfim's schoolwork doodles (no. 200), depicting himself as a horseman slaying a person, presumably his teacher. [a] [1]Anthemius (Old Novgorodian: Онѳимє, romanized: Onthime; fl. c. 1220–60), [b] better known by the modern Russian spelling of his name, Onfim (Russian: Онфим), was a boy who lived in Novgorod (now Veliky Novgorod, Russia) in the 13th century, some time around ...
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? is a 2014 book by Karen Dawisha. Published by Simon & Schuster , it chronicles the rise of Vladimir Putin during his time in Saint Petersburg in the 1990s. In the book, Dawisha exposes how Putin's friends and coworkers from his formative years have accumulated mass amounts of wealth and power.