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Vostok 1

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight in Vostok 1. Source.

Abakayada

Abakayada Sichyu, a Sakha woman who married the Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnev, is a romantic figure in the story of the 17th-century colonization of Yakutia. Here she is played by Margarita Borisova in the 1983 film Semyon Dezhnev. Source.

Sakha

A young Sakha woman from Yakutia. Portrait by Alexander Khimushin. Source.

Valentina Grizodubova

Statue of Soviet pilot Valentina Grizodubova in Moscow. Source.

Ekranoplan

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Hockeyists

Hokkeyisti (1959-60), by Alexandr Deineka. Source.

Russian Architecture, 1878

Source. Ivan Ropet.

Snow Maiden Vodka Flask

A shtof gzhel (ceramic flask) in the form of Snegorochka. Source.

Varezhka (1967)

A fable about the power of neglectful parenting. Watch. Source. If you need more stop action animation after that, look for a commercial after 6:30 minutes in this compilation from last winter.

Katerina Belkina

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