Russian chemist, Dmitrii Mendeleev, created the periodic table of elements by arranging them according to scientific laws. The whole world uses this periodic table

St. Petersburg football club Zenit is the only one club in Russia which has in its arsenal all champion cubs not only  Soviet times games but as well as Russian

Russia gave birth to many great artists, scientists and writers: Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Aivazovsky and Vasnetsov,  Gogol and Turgenev, Lomonosov and Karamzin

Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was blown up by Stalin during his drive to drive religion out of Soviet life and rebuilt in the 1990s

Russian celebrate new year 2 times a year (01st of January and Orthodox Stule New Year 14th of January)

In Russia men never give an even amount of flowers to a lady it is a  bad luck and is associated with funerals