All-Union health resort: 18 retro photographs about how they rested and lived in Crimea

How they lived in the USSR in the 1970s: Non-dressy photographs of documentary filmmaker Valery Shchekoldin

Valery Petrovich Shchekoldin is an outstanding Russian photographer who, during his lifetime, became a classic of documentary photography. Shchekoldin filmed in Russia and the former Soviet Union, in Chechnya and other hot spots. The heroes of Shchekoldin's photographs are old people, children from orphanages, teenagers from correctional colonies and prisons, residents of nursing homes

Black citizens of the Russian Empire: Where did they come from and how they lived

There are not so few people of African descent living in Russia. Many believe that they began to join the ranks of the Russians only at the end of the twentieth century, when students from Africa and Cuba began to come to the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation. In fact, the Russian Empire had its own blacks. True, entry into the country most often did not depend on their will

What is point Nemo, why they could not find it for so long, and when they found it, they were scared

The most surprising fact about this conditional point in the World Ocean is probably the very fact of its existence. It was possible to calculate the ocean pole of this inaccessibility thanks to the calculations of the engineer Hvoja Lukatele from Croatia. According to them, point Nemo is closer to people in orbit than on Earth. It is Lukatele who is considered the discoverer of point Nemo

What they ate, what they traded, and how the Indians lived before Columbus: Stereotypes versus facts

Because of adventure films, cute quotes on the Internet, and books written by colonialists during the days of active colonization, the average European perception of the indigenous people of America is rather stereotyped. Even realizing that South and North America differed from each other in history, many are very vague about what these differences looked like. It seems that in the south they ate potatoes and corn, and in the north - game meat … Right?

How the middle class lived in tsarist Russia: How much did they get, what they spent on, how did ordinary people and officials eat

Today people know very well what a food basket is, an average wage, a standard of living, and so on. Surely, our ancestors also thought about this. How did they live? What could they buy with the money they earned, what was the price of the most common food products, how much did it cost to live in large cities? Read in the material what was the "life under the tsar" in Russia, and what was the difference between the situation of ordinary people, the military and officials