How is your #worldballetday2021 going so far? 😍
Here is a little #Ballet lesson for you to try ...
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#RussianBallet #BalletDancers #WorldBalletDay #Ballet #Russia #IntoRussia #Art #Culture #RussianCulture #bolshoitheatre #mariinskytheatre
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May the Fourth Be With You!
Star Wars Day!
To celebrate...let's have a look at the Mandalorian’s Razor Crest spaceship in Russia 💪
May the Fourth Be With You!
#StarWars #StarWarsDay #Russia #Mandalorian
Today is World Earth Day! 🌏🌎🌍
Do you wonder sometimes what you can do to help? Does anything that you already do actually help?
YES! Any gesture, doesn't matter how small, will make a BIG DIFFERENCE!
Start small! Make a BIG DIFFERENCE!
♻ Replace your plastic toothbrush with #bamboo
♻ Ditch plastic containers; keep your things in #wheatstraw instead!
♻ #StaySafe and use #EcoFriendly personal #cutlerySet
♻ Replace your plastic toothpaste tube with #EarthFriendly tablets!
♻ Drink like a boss from a Wheat Straw #reusableCup!
#WorldEarthDay #StartSmall #SustainableTravel #SustainableTraveller
Yuri Gagarin in space!
60 years ago, on 12 April, the Vostok spaceship with Pilot-Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board was launched from the #Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Yuri Gagarin completed a single orbit of the Earth - the very first time a man had been to space!
Yuri Gagarin’s statement before take-off: “Dear friends, both near and dear and those unknown to me, my compatriots and people of all countries and continents! In a few minutes, a powerful spacecraft will carry me into the far-away expanses of the Universe. What can I say to you in these last few minutes before take-off? At this instant, the whole of my life seems to be condensed into one wonderful moment. Everything I have experienced and done till now has been in preparation for this moment. You must realise that it is hard to express my feeling now that the test for which we have been training long and passionately is at hand. I hardly need to tell you how I felt when I was offered to make the first space flight in history. Was it joy? No, it wasn’t just joy. Was it pride? No, it wasn’t just pride. I felt great happiness. To be the first man in space, to engage single handed in an unprecedented duel with Nature – could one even dream of something greater than this?”
#CosmonauticsDay #Gagarin1961 #OffWeGo #Gagarin #Vostok #Space #Cosmonautics #DayInHistory #Russia #IntoRussia
Video source: https://bit.ly/3g7FyMi
Happy #vodka day!!!
In Russia, almost every day is a holiday.
January 31 is the official Birthday of Russian Vodka, the day on which Dmitry Mendeleyev defended his doctoral dissertation “On Combining Water and Alcohol” in 1865. In his dissertation, he continued his exploration of chemistry, a study that would see Mendeleyev four years later publish his groundbreaking Periodic Table.
The Periodic Table established Mendeleyev as one of the leading scientists of his age, and honors were heaped upon him. He served the Imperial Government as Director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and it was this job that got Mendeleyev into the vodka business. Legend has it that in 1894 Tsar Nicholas II ordered Mendeleyev to create a standard recipe for Russian vodka. Mendeleyev supposedly simply rounded up his dissertation number of 38 percent alcohol to a more marketable 40 percent (80 proof), the number still in use today.
Mendeleyev’s actual participation in the vodka recipe was probably far more minor than the legend purports, but the marketing people are still using it to great effect in the brand building of modern labels such as Russian Standard.
Russian vodka, of course, dates much further back than 1894, though not, perhaps, as far as we might imagine, just as vodka is not as Russian as we might like. Poles were distilling grain and potato spirits from the 8th century, but Russians encountered distilled spirits only in the late fourteenth-century, when Genoese merchants passed through Muscovy en route to Lithuania with a fiery grappa-like liquor they called “aqua vitae.”
Text: Themoscowtimes.com
Ice Man Putin
Here is Vladimir #Putin entering the cold water of #lakeSeliger, 240 miles north of #Moscow. What's the weather like? Only -20C. Putin's bath in the waters of Lake Seliger, blessed by a priest, was part of the ceremony to mark #Epiphany.
Epiphany in Russia
19 January is very important for the #Orthodox Russians.
Epiphany Day commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan. On Epiphany, water is considered holy, and many people across Russia and Eastern Europe take a dip as a sign of their Orthodox Christian faith. The tradition is widely believed to bring good health, toughen one's immune system and wash away sins.
A cow's ordinary morning in the Pole of Cold 😂🥶
Let's turn #BlueMonday into #FunMonday!
We prefer to start the day with lighthearted news from, #Russia #Oymyakon, the #PoleOfCold
The news in #fasion...wooly bra for siberian cows!!!
#FrozenRamen #2021challenge
Hello everyone!
How is the year 2021 treating you so far? 😃
Any #NewYearResolutions yet?
When it comes to challenges, we could easily get behind the #FrozenRamenChallenge! 😂🤣🤣🤣
Winter is here!
Who does't love #SNOW!
This is just a normal wintery day in #Norilsk, #Russia
Experience Russia: the World's Best Cultural Destination
#Russia is not a simple #CityBreak destination. Whatever you wish to see in #MotherRussia, it's there; it just depends how you look at it. Kremlin, Tretyakov Gallery or Hermitage; the iconinc #TransSiberian. Russia is much more. The culture, the heritage, its people, the turbulent history, the otherwordly lanscapes and vastness that makes your head spin around. #IntoRussia
''On the one side, this film shows a slice of this relentless diversity of a place rarely visited by tourists - and on the other, it is an exploration of all the different lenses, viewpoints and expectations one can apply in a travel film about a mysterious country riddled with stereotypes''
Follow the creators' Instagram channels: @vincenturban, @muxsux, @timhoeddinghaus, @27km
For this film, @VincentUrban teamed up with Maximilian Neumeier and Tim Höddinghaus. The 3 went on a total of 4 trips, each spanning over roughly 10 days, which brought them to 6 distinct locations in 3 different seasons: Moscow in spring, Kamchatka in fall, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Salekhard and Lake Baikal in Winter.
This project could have never been realised without the help of the production company 27km, the local guides Andrey Manirko, Vadim Makhorov and the countless other people who helped on-location in Russia and in postproduction back in Germany.
MUSIC
"Polyushka Polye"
Composed & re-arranged by Hermann Schepetkov, 2WEI
Additional music by Thomas Muis, 2WEI
Music supervised by Christoph Körner, 2WEI
The music was specifically composed for this film and is based on an old Soviet song, written by Lev Knipper & Viktor Gussew
Produced by: Lars Doehring, 27 Kilometer Entertainment GmbH
Local producers: Andrey Manirko & Vadim Makhorov
Main Camera: Tim David Höddinghaus
Additional Camera: Max Neumeier
Additional Drone: Vadim Makhorov
Edit: Vincent Urban & Max Neumeier
Colorist: Lutz Forster, C.S.I.
Sound Design: Max Neumeier
VFX: Hans Hartmann
Title Design: Moril Gnoyke
Sound Mixing: Nepomuk Heller
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