Novosibirsk 125 years ago, the city, which today everyone knows as Novosibirsk, officially became Novo-Nikolaevsky, then still a village. It took two years to get the name of the emperor. The petition for renaming the village of Aleksandrovsky in Novo-Nikolaevsky was adopted on December 8, 1895 at the next gathering of residents. And only on November 6, 1897, the highest permission was received.

Hunt Shaman at the Holy Ambarchik In the project "Such small peoples" we talk about the historical fate and modern problems of the Siberian Aborigines. Khanty and Mansi are two different people with a common fate, their names are connected even in the name of the city-Khanty-Mansiysk. Until 1940, this capital of the two peoples was called Ostyako-Vogulsk, because even the Russian pioneers called the Khanty Ostyaki, and Mansi-Voguli.

People on the road towards the Upper Lars checkpoint on the Russian-Georgian border The FSB published statistics stating that the number of Russian exits abroad in the 3rd quarter of this year was 9.7 million times. This is almost twice as much as it was in the second quarter. Neighboring countries like Armenia and Kazakhstan, as well as partially recognized Abkhazia, beat the record of five years ago in terms of the number of entrances of Russians.