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1. Siberia's Primordial Colors: A journalist meets a painter in the distant outback of Siberia. They share a love for the untamed wilderness, and we learn a thing or two about the challenges of painting in the wild.; Tags: painting, art, Putorana, Siberia

2. A Song About Paintings: A popular song about paintings helps language learners pick up some artistic vocabulary.; Tags: art, painting

3. Titan of the Russian Forest: An Ivan Shishkin Art Gallery: Today marks the 185th birthday of the artist Ivan Shishkin, whose paintings evoke Russia's beauty and vastness. With a nickname like "Forest Tsar," his trees must be good.; Tags: Russia, Shishkin, painting, art, Peredvizhniki, realism; By Alice E.M. Underwood

4. Vasnetsov, Painter and Planet: An Art Gallery: July 25 is the 155th birthday of Apollinary Vasnetsov, who is both a renowned painter of medieval Russia and a fixture in the night sky.; Tags: vasnetsov, painter, painting, art, artist, russia, history; By Alice E.M. Underwood

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1967: Soviet Venera 4 spacecraft entered the atmosphere of Venus, sending data back to earth. It was the first man-made device to enter the atmosphere of another planet. Contact with the craft was lost when it was 27 km above the planet's surface.

1951: First Soviet air-dropped nuclear missile test.

1947: Captured Nazi A-4/V-2's tested in Soviet Union, at Kapustin Yar testing ground.

1943: Third Moscow conference begins, bringing together representatives from the US, UK and the USSR.

1894: Yuri Tynyanov, biographer, born (died 1943)

1867: Russian formally transferred dominion over Russian America to the United States.

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