The city of Ufa, the cap­i­tal of Bashkiria, is a town with the pop­u­la­tion of just over a mil­lion, at about 1500 km dis­tance from Moscow. It is beau­ti­fully set at the con­flu­ence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers, on low hills to the west of South­ern Urals. The city was founded in 1574 at the […]

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The unof­fi­cial cap­i­tal of Siberia, the city of Novosi­birsk was founded in 1893 with the ini­tial pop­u­la­tion of only 8,000 peo­ple. By the time of the Great Octo­ber Social­ist Rev­o­lu­tion of 1917,  it grew to the pop­u­la­tion size of 80,000. The name, lit­er­ally mean­ing New Siber­ian City, was adopted in 1926  —  and since then, the town […]

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The great short­age of almost every­thing required for nor­mal well being was one of the most dis­tin­guished fea­tures of the Soviet econ­omy. Surely, there was food, clothes and some cos­metic goods in the Soviet shops in 1950s-1970s but the vari­ety was incredibly poor.

How­ever, the phi­los­o­phy was that the Soviet peo­ple were used to com­par­ing their life […]

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