The most popular British newspaper The Daily Telegraph collected several facts about Russia, a country that is famous for its reckless people and unexplainable things. This country will impress you with its incredible cultural heritage and interesting history.

Bright Side invites you to get acquainted with some peculiar facts that you probably don’t know about Russia.

Hotel Astoria in Saint Petersburg is the place where Hitler planned to hold a victory banquet after conquering the city.

Ter Sami language was traditionally spoken in the northeastern part of the Kola Peninsula. Nowadays, only 2 people speak this language.

The street cleaning day is called Subbotnik (Subbota means Saturday in Russian). Russian citizens clean the streets picking up garbage and trash. It’s volunteer unpaid work on weekends following the October Revolution.

There’s one of the scariest pedestrian suspension bridges in the world there. Skybridge is 439 m (1,440 ft) long. It’s located between the city of Adler and Krasnaya Polyana, an urban-type settlement.

Oymyakon is one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on Earth. In 1933, a temperature of −67.7 °C (−89.9 °F) was recorded at Oymyakon’s weather station.

The Moscow Metro is probably the most beautiful subway in the world.

1,800 skiers and snowboarders wearing swimsuits descended a slope and set a Guinness world record in Sochi.

Russians pickle everything: cucumbers, tomatoes, and even former chiefs.

In the Museum of History of Saint Petersburg near the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, the grim silence is interrupted only by the sound of a metronome. During the siege of Leningrad, the radio used to transmit this sound to let people know that the city was still alive.

Legend held that Ivan the Terrible blinded the architect who created the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed so that he could not re-create the masterpiece anywhere else.

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