This is a pretty creative subway site. I like the interactive map that tells you how many minutes your trip will take.

Quoted: Seventeen Moments in Soviet History contains a rich archive of texts, images, maps and audio and video materials from the Soviet era (1917-1991). The materials are arranged by year and by subject, are fully searchable, and are translated into English. Students, educators, and scholars will find fascinating materials about Soviet propaganda, politics, economics, society, crime, literature, art, dissidents and hundreds of other topics

I love this site! So many pictures, videos, documents, interviews, and other resources on a very interesting living arrangement in Russia.

Quoted: This Web site explores and explains a striking social phenomenon: the Soviet "kommunalka," or communal apartment. Instituted after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the kommunalka ...

Quoted: Elizabeth tried to adopt and adhere to many of her father's public policies. Unlike some of her predecessors, she preferred to appoint Russians and not foreigners to the highest positions in the country and being a patron of the arts and sciences, she established the Russian Academy of Arts. As well as a conscientious leader, Elizabeth was also a very lively and social personality and organised regular balls, receptions, masquerades and firework displays.

Just rented this. It's pretty wonderful.

Quoted: Irony of Fate is a Soviet comedy-drama directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The screenplay was written by Emil Braginsky and Ryazanov, and the movie was filmed in 1975 at Mosfilm. The film is traditionally shown on Russian TV every New Year's Eve and is as warmly viewed every year as the American film “It’s a Wonderful Life” is during the Christmas holidays. Many phrases from the film have become catch phrases in Russian. A large part of the plot revolves around what some perceive as the soullessness of Brezhnev era architecture.

This symposium takes place on September 28-29 at the Architectural League and the MoMA in New York.

Quoted: Following the seminal “Heritage at Risk” conference held in Moscow in April 2006, this symposium addresses pressing issues in the preservation of the modernist legacy of the most significant edifices built by radical Soviet architects in the 1920s and 1930s. Through two keynote addresses, six case studies, and a roundtable...

So many great photos of Saint Petersburg in Wikipedia. I would love to go there.

Quoted: Saint Petersburg is situated on the middle taiga lowlands along the shores of the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland, and islands of the river delta.

Really hope to see this in September.

Quoted: Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–­32 examines Soviet avant-garde architecture in the postrevolutionary period.

Definitely want to vacation in Siberia!

Quoted: Lake Baikal is one of Russia’s natural wonders, a crescent moon setting in the vast forest of southern Siberia. Stretches of its unpopulated shoreline feel like the most isolated places on earth.