A nurse injects a performer in a bear costume with Russia’s Gam- COVID-Vac vaccine (under the brand name of Sputnik V) at a temporary COVID-19 vaccination site in Moscow’s Shchyolkovsky shopping centre.

In a year filled with death and mourning, we remember an individual who was, for this magazine, profoundly influential and truly remarkable.

There are so many things wrong in the case of historian Yuri Dmitriev, it is hard to know where to start.

What unites Khabarovsk and Minsk?

If a vessel is unlucky enough to be berthed as a river ferry in Yakutsk, it will spend most of its life frozen into the surface of the Lena River.

Yury Luzhkov, who died in December from complications during routine heart surgery, is difficult to pin to a particular pantheon of Russian political figures.

Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space passed away at the age of 85.

A telling photo from Voronezh's Central Market.

A few images from 1919.

A photograph captured in 2018 in Red Square captures the moment with beauty and finesse.

Belarusian Alexei Usikov has invented a new vehicle – a horsemobile, with the mighty horsepower of one horse.

Photos captured by an unknown Czech Legionnaire, during those troops’ long sojourn in Russia from 1916-1919.