 Moscow Russia's most intense human aspirations, be they artistic, religious or political, have always found their most passionate expression in Moscow. Accordingly, the capital of Russia has had, over time, a complex relationship with not only the outer world but also with its own people. Unlike the country's other great city, St. Petersburg, Moscow developed over the centuries in a rather helter skelter ... Date added: 23 March '06 |
 Roman Abramovich Roman Abramovich was born on October 24, 1966 in Saratov on the Volga River in Southern Russia. He is a Russian oil billionaire and the main owner of private investment company Millhouse Capital, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs.
Biography and Career :
His mother died when he was 18 months old and his father was killed in a construction accident when Roman was age 4.
Roman Abr ... Date added: 21 November '07 |
 St Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city located in northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It is informally known as Питер (Piter) and was formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогр ... Date added: 21 April '06 |
 Novosibirsk Novosibirsk is Russia's third largest city, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast. It is located in the southwest of Siberian Federal District.
It was founded in 1893 as the future site of the Trans-Siberian railway bridge crossing the great Siberian river Ob. Its importance further increased early in the 20th century with the completion of the T ... Date added: 26 April '06 |
 Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod colloquially shortened as Nizhny and also transliterated into English as Nizhniy Novgorod or Nizhni Novgorod, is the fourth largest city of Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Novosibirsk.
Nizhny Novgorod is the economic and cultural center of the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region, and also the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal Dist ... Date added: 26 April '06 |
 Yekaterinoburg Yekaterinoburg is a major city in the central part of Russian Federation, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range.
Yekaterinoburg is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District. Its population of 1,293,537 (2002 Census) makes it Russia's fifth largest city. Between 1924 and 1991, the city was known as Sver ... Date added: 26 April '06 |
 Samara Samara is a major city situated on the Volga River in the southeastern part of European Russia, Volga Federal District, the administrative center of Samara Oblast.
Samara was founded in 1586 as a defense outpost, and later grew into a major grain-trading center for the Volga region.
Samara is a large industrial and transportation center of European Russia. Important manufacturing in the met ... Date added: 26 April '06 |
 Omsk Omsk is a city in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast. The population in Omsk rose from 31,000 in 1881 and 53,050 in 1900 to 1,134,016 according to the 2002 population census. It is the second-largest city in the Siberian Federal District. The distance from Omsk to Moscow is 2,700 km.
Omsk was the seat of the Governor General of Western Siberia, and later of th ... Date added: 26 April '06 |
 Kazan Kazan is the capital city of Tatarstan and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center of Tatar culture.
Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga (Idel) and Kazanka (Qazansu) rivers in central European Russia.
In 1552, the city was conquered by Russia under Ivan the Terrible. During the governorship of Alex ... Date added: 26 April '06 |
 Ufa Ufa is the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. Population: 1,036,026 (as of January 1, 2005; as of 2002 census: 1,042,437).
Ufa is one of the industrial centres in the Western Urals area, and is situated at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers. Industries include electrical and mining equipment, oil refining, petrochemicals, synthetic rubber, and processed foods.
Ufa be ... Date added: 26 April '06 |
 Perm Perm is a city in and administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia. It is situated on the banks of the Kama River, at the foot of the Ural Mountains.
Perm population is 1,001,653 (2002 Census).
Perm was populated by pagan Finno-Ugric tribes who lived to the southeast of the legendary Bjarmaland and northeast of Volga Bulgaria. Between the 13th and 14th centuries, Russian fur traders and Christ ... Date added: 27 April '06 |
 Rostov na Donu Rostov na Donu or Rostov on the Don is the capital of Rostov region and the administrative center of the North Caucasus district, SE European Russia, on the Don River near its entrance into the Sea of Azov.
The Don River that the city is named for is a major shipping lane connecting southwestern Russia with regions to the north, and Rostov-on-Don is an important river port in both passenger-ori ... Date added: 29 April '06 |
 Volgograd Volgograd is a city in and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is situated on the west bank of the Volga River. Volgograd population in 2002 was 1,011,417 .
Volgograd originated with the foundation in 1589 of the fortress of Tsaritsyn at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga rivers. The fortress, which took its name from the local name Sary Su (Yellow Water\River in Tat ... Date added: 09 July '06 |
 Voronezh Voronezh is a large city in the south of Central Russia, not far from Ukraine. Voronezh is located on the Voronezh River, twelve kilometers away from the emptying of Voronezh River into the Don.
Voronezh is the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is an important railway junction (lines to Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Kiev), as well as the center of Federal Route M4 "Kavkaz" (Moscow—Rostov-o ... Date added: 29 April '06 |
 Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, and the third largest city in Siberia, having a population of 909,341 in the 2002 census. It lies on the Yenisei River and is an important station on the Trans-Siberian railway.
Krasnoyarsk is one of the earliest settlements of Siberia. It was founded as a fort in 1628 by Cossack Andrey Dubenskiy. It was a wooden fortress wit ... Date added: 29 April '06 |
 Saratov Saratov is a major city in southern European Russia. It is the administrative center of Saratov Oblast and a major port on the Volga River.
Saratov population is about 873,000 . In addition to the ethnic Russians, Saratov also has many Tatar, Ukrainian and German residents.
History :
The Legend of Saratov: Gelon, a legendary Scythian city, the northernmost Greek colony. Mentioned by Her ... Date added: 29 April '06 |
 Tolyatti Tolyatti or Togliatti is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. Tolyatti's population is 702,879 (2002 Census).
Tolyatti was founded in 1737 as Stavropol-on-Volga. In the 1950s, it fell into the flooding zone of the Kuybyshev dam on the Volga River and was completely rebuilt on a new site.
In 1964, Tolyatti was renamed Togliatti (after Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader). Tolyatti is kno ... Date added: 08 May '06 |
 Khabarovsk Khabarovsk is the administrative center and the largest city of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some 30 km from the Chinese border.
Population and Short Info:
Khabarovsk, a city of more than 600,000 people, is second only to Vladivostok in size in the Russian Far East. While winter is only beginning to loosen its hold on Magadan, to the north, spring had clearly arrived in Khabarovsk ... Date added: 07 July '06 |
 Vladivostok Vladivostok is the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated close to the Russo-Chinese border and North Korea. It is the home port of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet. The city's name means "rule the East" in Russian; in the Chinese language, the city is known as "Sea Cucumber Marsh".
Demographics:
- The city's population was 594,701 as of the 2002 Census.
- From 1958 to 19 ... Date added: 07 July '06 |
 Barnaul Barnaul is a city in and the administrative center of Altai Krai, Russia. Barnaul's population is : 600,749 (2002 Census).
About Barnaul :
Barnaul is situated in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District on the Ob River, and is the closest major city to the Altai Mountains to the south.
Barnaul is also situated relatively near (approx. 500 miles) to the neighboring countries of Kazakh ... Date added: 09 July '06 |
 Novokuznetsk Novokuznetsk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Novokuznetsk Population: 549,870 (2002 Census).
Novokuznetsk was founded as a Cossack outpost on the Tom River, it was initially called Kuznetsk. It was here that Fyodor Dostoevsky married his first wife, Maria Isayeva (1857). Joseph Stalin's rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union transformed the sleepy town into a major coal mining and in ... Date added: 10 July '06 |
 Penza Penza is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Penza Oblast in the Volga Federal District. It stands on the Sura River, 625 km south-east of Moscow. Penza's Population: 518,025 (2002 Census).
History:
Penza was founded in 1663 as a frontier outpost on the then southeastern border of Russia. During the 18th century Penza became an important trade center.
In 1774, Penza was taken ... Date added: 09 July '06 |
 Lev Tolstoi Lev Tolstoi (Lev Nicolaievici Tolstoi) was born on August 28, 1828 in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. He is a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher.
Biography and Career :
He was born in a noble family and was the fourth of the fifth children. His mother passed away when he was two years old and his father when he was nine. The kids were raised by their aunt in Kazan.
In Kazan, Lev Tol ... Date added: 28 November '07 |
 Natalie Glebova Natalie Glebova was born on the November 11, 1981 in Tuapse, Russia. She is the winner of Miss Universe 2005.
Biography and Career :
She moved with her family in Canada in 1993. She attended classes at Ryerson University and got a Bachelor of Commerce in Information Technology Management and Marketing. She worked as a motivational speaker for grade school and high school students. She remind ... Date added: 07 January '07 |
 Natasha Poly Natasha Poly (birth name Natasha Polevshchikova) was born on July 12, 1985 in Perm, Russia. She is a famous Russian supermodel who was discovered at 15 years old.
Biography and Career :
Even if she was discovered when she was 15, she quitted this career for a while, wanting to finish her education. At the age of 19 she returned to modeling and became a superstar.
She worked for Lanvin, D ... Date added: 05 December '07 |
 Nikolay Davydenko Nikolay Davydenko was born on June 2, 1981 in Severodonezk, Ukraine. He is a great tennis player, currently on the fourth place in Top 100.
Biography and Career :
His parents are Vladimir and Tatjana Davydenko. When he was eleven years old, he decided together with his parents it was best for him to go in Russia where his elder brother was. There his chances to become a great tennis player w ... Date added: 23 July '07 |
 Svetlana Kuznetsova Svetlana Kuznetsova was born on June 27, 1985 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is a well known tennis player and World's Number 5 now (2007).
Biography and Career :
Her entire family is related to sport. Her father was a coach of five Olympic and world cycling champions, her mother is a six-time world champion and holds 20 world records and her brother won a silver medalist at the 1996 Summer ... Date added: 22 August '07 |
 Tatiana Golovin Tatiana Golovin was born on January 25, 1988 in Moscow, Russia. She is a young tennis player who has dreams and hops to become World's Number 1.
Biography and Career :
She debuted at Cagnes-Sur-Mer in France in 2002, but even if she participated to another three events that year she wasn't qualified at the French Open. Next year she participated at Miami, Strasbourg and Roland Garros, but lo ... Date added: 23 August '07 |
 Elena Dementieva Elena Dementieva (full name Elena Vyacheslavovna Dementieva) was born on October 15, 1981 in Moscow, Russia. She is a talented tennis player who dreams to become a great name in the tennis history.
Biography and Career :
When she was 13 years old she participated at her first tournament at Les Petit As in France. Her career was getting started. In 1998 she became a professional tennis player ... Date added: 24 August '07 |
