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The culture of Russia is a hybrid one created from the cultures of the nationalities of this multinational state and the result of development over several distinct epochs. The politics of the Soviet Union with respect to culture was controversial: on one side there was a politically-motivated desire to create a "Soviet people", from the other side there were campaigns of preservation of national cultures: every ethnicity had "great national writers" and folk cultural practices were officially supported.
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MOSCOW:
Novosibirsk,
St. Petersburg,
Yekaterinburg,
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DESTINATION MOSCOW
Moscow's architecture is world-renowned. Moscow is also well known as the site of Saint Basil's Cathedral, with its elegant onion domes, as well as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Seven Sisters. For a long time, the view of the city was dominated by numerous Orthodox churches ...
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Bolshoi Theatre,
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour,
Moskva River,
Ostankino Tower,
Pushkin Museum,
Red Square,
St. Basil's Cathedral,
State Historical Museum,
Tretyakov State Gallery,
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Discover NOVOSIBIRSK
Novosibirsk was founded in 1893 at the future site of a Trans-Siberian Railway bridge crossing the great Siberian river of Ob and was named Novonikolayevsk, in honor of both Saint Nicholas and of the reigning tsar, Nicholas II. The bridge was completed in the spring of 1897, making the new settlement a transportation hub ...
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Discover ST. PETERSBURG
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is also home to The Hermitage, the largest art museum in the world. Russia's political and cultural centre for 200 years, the city is sometimes referred to in Russia as the Northern Capital ...
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Discover YEKATERINBURG
Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723 and named after Saint Catherine, the namesake of Tsar Peter the Great's wife Empress Catherine I (Yekaterina). Soon after the Russian Revolution, on 17 July 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their children were murdered by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in this city ...
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