- List of cultural icons of Russia
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Russian regalia (with Monomakh's Cap)
Tsar Nicholas II
The Battleship Potemkin poster
Russian borscht with beef and sour smetana
Spasskaya tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
Russian icon Trinity by Andrei Rublev
Russo-Balt Model DAnimals
- Black Russian Terrier, Borzoi
- Central Asian Shepherd Dog
- Donskoy (cat)
- East-European Shepherd, East Siberian Laika
- Hortaya Borzaya
- Kurilian Bobtail,
- Moscow Watchdog, Moscow Water Dog
- Orlov trotter
- Peterbald
- Russian Black Pied, Russian Blue, Russian Don, Russian Heavy Draft, Russian Spaniel, Russian Trotter, Russian Toy, Russo-European Laika
- Samoyed (dog), Siberian (cat), Siberian Husky, South Russian Ovcharka
- Ussuri (cat)
- West Siberian Laika
Art, architecture
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Leon Bakst, Vasili Bazhenov, Ivan Bilibin, Karl Briullov,
- Marc Chagall,
- Peter Carl Fabergé
- Feofan Grek
- Wassily Kandinsky, Matvey Kazakov, Orest Kiprensky, Konstantin Korovin, Ivan Kramskoi, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Boris Kustodiev
- Mikhail Larionov, Isaac Levitan
- Konstantin Makovsky, Kazimir Malevich, Konstantin Melnikov, Vera Mukhina
- Mikhail Nesterov
- Vasily Perov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Peredvizhniki, Postnik Yakovlev
- Russian Academy of Arts, Ilya Repin, Alexander Rodchenko, Nicholas Roerich, Andrei Rublev
- Alexei Savrasov, Valentin Serov, Ivan Shishkin, Vladimir Shukhov, Vasily Surikov
- Konstantin Thon, Vasily Tropinin
- Viktor Vasnetsov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Mikhail Vrubel
- Nikolai Yaroshenko
Russian art movements: Constructivism (art and architecture), Cubo-Futurism, Naryshkin Baroque, Neo-primitivism, Nonconformism, Petrine Baroque, Postconstructivism, Rayonism, Russian avant-garde, Russian neoclassical revival, Russian Revival, Russian Symbolism, Suprematism, Socialist realism, Stalinist Empire style
Russian artistic groups: ASNOVA, Donkey's Tail, Jack of Diamonds, Mitki, Peredvizhniki, VKhUTEMAS
Buildings and structures
- Admiralty Board, All-Russia Exhibition Centre
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Catherine Palace, Church of the Savior on Blood, Church of the Intercession on the Nerl
- Derbent
- Ivan the Great Bell Tower
- Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Kazan Kremlin, Kolomenskoye, Kresty prison
- Lenin's Mausoleum
- Marble Palace, Moscow City Hall, Moscow Kremlin, Moscow Manege
- Novgorod Kremlin, Novodevichy Convent
- Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns
- Pavlovsk Palace, Peterhof Palace, Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Saint Basil's Cathedral, Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Michael's Castle, Seven Sisters,*Smolny Convent, Solovetsky Monastery, Suzdal Kremlin
- Terem Palace, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
- Valaam Monastery
- Winter Palace
Dress
Emblems, Symbols and Allegories
- Coat of arms of Russia, Coat of arms of Moscow
- Double-headed eagle
- Flag of Russia, Flag of Soviet Union
- Hammer and sickle
- Mother Motherland, Mother Russia
- Pan-Slavic colors
- Russian Bear
Food and drink
- Beef Stroganoff, Blini, Borscht, Bublik
- Chicken Kiev
- Dressed herring
- Kalach, Kholodets, Kompot, Korovai, Kvass, Kulich
- Medovukha
- Okroshka
- Pelmeni, Pirozhki, Plov
- Rassolnik, Russian salad
- Sbiten, Shashlyk, Shchi, Smetana, Solyanka, Sushki, Syrniki
- Vareniki, Vatrushka, Vobla, Vodka
- Ukha
Government and politics
- Boyar Duma
- Federation Council of Russia, Federal Assembly of Russia
- Most Holy Synod
- Oblast
- Prikaz
- State Council of Imperial Russia, State Duma
- Kray
- Zemsky Sobor
Holidays
Language
Literature
See also: Russian literature
- Anna Akhmatova, Anna Karenina
- Andrei Bely, Alexander Blok, Joseph Brodsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Valery Bryusov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin
- Anton Chekhov, Crime and Punishment
- Dead Souls, Gavrila Derzhavin, Doctor Zhivago, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Eugene Onegin
- Aleksandr Griboyedov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Maxim Gorky, The Gulag Archipelago
- Alexander Herzen
- Ilf and Petrov
- Nikolay Karamzin, Daniil Kharms, Ivan Krylov
- Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Leskov, Lolita
- The Master and Margarita, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, Dmitry Merezhkovsky
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Alexander Ostrovsky
- Boris Pasternak, Alexander Pushkin
- Samizdat, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Mikhail Sholokhov
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign, Leo Tolstoy, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Tyutchev
- Sergei Yesenin
- War & Peace
- Vasily Zhukovsky
Russian literature movements: Acmeism, Ego-Futurism, Imaginism, Russian futurism, Russian symbolism
Russian literature groups: Arzamas Society, LEF, Serapion Brothers
Music
see also: Russian Opera, Russian Orthodox bell ringing, Russian rock
- Eduard Artemyev
- Mily Balakirev Alexander Borodin
- César Cui
- Alexander Dargomyzhsky
- Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka
- Aram Khachaturian
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Sergey Rakhmaninov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Anton Rubinstein
- Alfred Schnittke, Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, Fyodor Shalyapin, Rodion Shchedrin, Dmitri Shostakovich
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Vladimir Vysotsky
Russian music instruments: Balalaika, Bayan, Domra, Garmon, Gusli, Russian guitar, Treshchotka, Svirel
Myths, legends, and folklore
- Alyosha Popovich
- Baba Yaga, Byliny
- Dobrynya Nikitich, Domovoi
- Ilya Muromets, Ivan Tsarevich
- Kolobok
- Firebird
- Leshy
- Nightingale the Robber, Nikita the Furrier
- Rusalka
- Sadko, Svyatogor
- Vodyanoy
- Zmey Gorynych
Philosophy
- Mikhail Bakhtin, Mikhail Bakunin, Vissarion Belinsky, [Nikolai Berdyaev]], Sergei Bulgakov
- Pyotr Chaadayev
- Nikolay Danilevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Pavel Florensky
- Peter Kropotkin
- Konstantin Leontiev, Dmitry Likhachev
- Alexander Radishchev, Vasily Rozanov
- Vladimir Solovyev, Pitirim Sorokin
- Leo Tolstoy, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian philosophical movements: Marxism-Leninism, Pochvennichestvo, Russian anarchism, Russian cosmism, Slavophiles, Tolstovstvo, Westernizers
Places
- Altai Mountains, Astrakhan, Azov Sea
- Baikal, Barents Sea, Bering Sea, Black Sea
- Caspian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Chukotka
- Derbent, Cape Dezhnev
- East Siberian Sea
- Garden Ring, Golden Ring
- Lake Ilmen,
- Kamchatka, Kara Sea, Kazan, Kizhi, Kostroma, Kronstadt, Kuznetsk Basin
- Laptev Sea, Lena River,
- Sea of Okhotsk, Oymyakon,
- Pskov
- Red Square,
- Sergiyev Posad, Siberia, Smolensk, Sochi, Suzdal
- Tobolsk, Tula
- Ural Mountains,
- Veliky Novgorod, Volga, Vologda
- White Sea
- Yakutia, Yaroslavl, Yenisei
Press
- Argumenty i Fakty
- Izvestia
- Kommersant, Komsomolskaya Pravda
- LEF
- Mir Iskusstva, The Moscow Times, Moskovskij Komsomolets
- Nash Mir, Nedelya, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Novaya Gazeta
- Pionerskaya Pravda, Pravda
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta
- Sport Express
- Vedomosti
Sport
- Ak Bars Kazan, Andrei Arshavin, Avangard Omsk
- Pavel Bure
- Vladimir Chagin, PBC CSKA Moscow, PFC CSKA Moscow
- FC Dynamo Moscow
- Viacheslav Fetisov, Sergei Fedorov
- Aleksandr Karelin, Nikolai Khabibulin, Kontinental Hockey League, FC Krylya Sovetov Samara
- FC Lokomotiv Moscow, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
- Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Evgeni Plushenko
- Lev Yashin, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, Maria Sharapova, FC Spartak Moscow
- Vladislav Tretiak, Kostya Tszyu
- FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
Television, cinema & animation
- The Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Sergei Bondarchuk
- Cheburashka
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
- Sergei Eisenstein, Vladimir Etush
- Leonid Gaidai, Aleksei German
- Hedgehog in the Fog
- Roman Kachanov, Chulpan Khamatova, Andrei Konchalovsky
- Yevgeny Leonov, Vasily Livanov, Pavel Lungin
- Vladimir Menshov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrei Mironov
- Yuri Nikulin, Yuriy Norshteyn
- Lyubov Orlova
- Aleksandr Petrov
- Mikhail Romm, Eldar Ryazanov
- Vasily Shukshin, Alexander Sokurov
- Oleg Tabakov, Andrei Tarkovsky
Theatre, circus
- George Balanchine, Ballets Russes, Bolshoi Theatre
- Valery Gergiev, Alexander Godunov
- Sergei Diaghilev
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky
- Karandash
- Mariinsky Theatre, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Mikhaylovsky Theatre
- Anna Netrebko, Yuri Nikulin, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev
- Anna Pavlova, Petrushka, Maya Plisetskaya, Slava Polunin, Oleg Popov
- Arkady Raikin, Ida Rubinstein
- Constantin Stanislavski
- Galina Vishnevskaya
Transport
War
- AK-47
- Kulikovo, Stalingrad, Borodino, Brusilov Offensive
- Cossacks
- Great Northern War, Great Patriotic War, Ugra stand
- Kamov Ka-50, Kunersdorf
- Mikoyan MiG-29
- Order of Victory
- Poltava, Port Arthur
- Red Army, Soviet atom bomb, Battleship Potemkin, Russian Civil War, Russian Imperial Giard
- Sevastopol, Siege of Leningrad, Sukhoi Su-27, Alexander Suvorov
- T-34
- War of 1812, White movement
See also
- Cultural icon
- List of cultural icons of England
- List of cultural icons of Germany
- List of cultural icons of France
- List of cultural icons of Italy
- List of cultural icons of Northern Ireland
- List of cultural icons of Scotland
- List of cultural icons of Wales
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- Cultural history
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