A sixty-year-old Christmas present reveals how Soviet archaeologists perceived their craft.

The ultimate St. Petersburg film is coming to a Netflix account near you.

In this week's Odder News: move over Star Wars, make way for Eurovision, and pack your Speedo.

Surprisingly, a two-bedroom Russian apartment does not make an appropriate habitat for this 13-foot long python.  

Some little-known art from a civilian eyewitness to the Siege of Leningrad is public both at one of the blockade museums in St. Petersburg and in a new book.

The Leningrad Zoo kept its animals alive during the siege – the 77th anniversary of which was commemorated this week.

Pack your bikinis and speedos: it's time for Russian winter!

Olga was born one year after the collapse of the USSR, but she witnessed both scarcity and communal living. Optimism and creativity have served her well.

A birthday party turned deadly when a man was run over by a tank.

St. Petersburg saw over 2,000 attendees at its stand-up-paddleboard (SUP) festival this year, many in costume and with pets in tow.

A Russian theater takes to an unusual medium to perform its adaptation of Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard."

St. Petersburg's deputy governor put forth a compelling reason for his city's more lax coronavirus regulations, compared to Moscow's.