Ancestors of the people who settled Iran and India and founded great global cultures had their beginnings in the Urals region of Russia. In 1987, the Arkaim Valley was slated to become the bottom of a ...

At first sight, this picturesque cape on the eastern shore of Lake Onega (the second biggest lake in Europe, 700 km northwest of Moscow) appears to be just another beautiful place where Karelians from ...

4 thousand years ago in the Southern Urals there was a unique "Country of cities" — a complex of Bronze Age settlements. The most famous of them is the fortified settlement of Arkaim, covered with ...

Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Ancient animal bones are the key to ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people. Another, ...

The Ural mountains are a natural boundary between Russia’s European and Asian parts. It’s spring but the local climate allows skiing until early May, as we shall see in this issue of ‘Russian Life’.

A skeleton with an unusual-shaped skull has been unearthed on a site known as Russia's Stonehenge. When images of the remains were first published, UFO enthusiasts rushed to claim they were proof that ...