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• Birds As Heralds of Spring in Russian Folklore

  … for winter and return in spring, it makes not only symbolic but also practical sense: if these warm-loving creatures have returned, then spring must truly be just around the corner. Close contemplation of natural forces and creatures allowed people in ancient times to make certain conclusions, which in turn helped them predict the weather changes. Here are some e…

  21.03.2022

• Explore St. Petersburg Like a Local: Vasilyevsky Island

  …rthy setting. Hard to imagine, but a few years ago it was just a typical Russian market where you could buy anything from cabbage to counterfeit jeans. Just around the corner, there’s another of Vasilyevsky Island’s mysterious locations. Here, in the Courtyard of Spirits, you can make any wish. In fact, it’s just a tiny two-meter-long courtyard, or rather a li…

  18.03.2022

• 6 Unexpectedly Cool Things About Living in Russia

  …e shopping on Sunday? No problem! Not a necessity but a pleasant bonus, Russian supermarkets boast flexible opening hours all week long: the smaller ones like Dixy and nearby corner shops are usually open 24/7, while bigger chains like Perekrestok or O’Key close at about 11.00 pm. And they’re almost always located within a walking distance from your house. For exampl…

  21.02.2022

• Jack and Jill: Researchers Develop Novel Test to Efficiently Measure Human Cognitive Abilities

  …se order), Corsi block-tapping test or CBTT (the task is to reproduce a sequence of blocks), and memory updating figural or MUF (the task is to click on dots appearing at the corners of a rectangle). “We studied the correlations between the performance in our test and in other established testing systems to examine the accuracy of our measurements. It’s vita…

  14.02.2022

• A Guide to Writers’ Apartment-Museums in St. Petersburg

• Results in 15 Minutes: ITMO Researchers Develop Device to Detect Antibiotics, Bacteria, and Viruses

  …ll starts with chemometrics  The testing device was first developed in 2020, when researchers from ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center tested its ability to detect tick-borne encephalitis in a biological sample. Today’s version of the device is a significantly improved one, although based on the same analysis principle, and is now used to detect bacteria in dai…

  28.01.2022

• Dress Like a Russian: Holiday Costumes

  …s up as a snowflake. Among the other costumes of forest dwellers and clowns, it was the most elegant option. The idea of the outfit is simplicity itself: a basic white dress adorned with silver tinsel or its pieces. And don’t forget a huge white bow or a tinseled crown on your head! As a result, you get a minimalistic but pretty Russian edition of a Disney princess. …

  27.12.2021

• Have Yourself a Vegan Russian New Year

  …The staples You might already know it, but there are three cornerstones of Russian holiday cuisine: the Olivier salad, the dressed herring, and… Well, to be fair, the third place goes to different meals in different households – it can be the crab sticks salad, buterbrody (sandwiches) with caviar or fish, vinegret, or the nightmare of my childhood, kholodets (aspi…

  24.12.2021

• The Four Wonders of Russian Winter

  …aikal, the world’s deepest and oldest lake, reaches a whole ’nother level of beauty once it completely freezes over by late January. Crystal blue, up-to-1.5-meter-thick, and adorned with lightning cracks and frozen methane bubbles, the ice transforms the whole area into a frozen wonderland as if an ice queen has cast her spell. Covered in ice, Lake Baikal turns into …

  13.12.2021

• One Perfect Day: Feel Swedish in St. Petersburg

  … the Swedish Lane att hälsa – to greet One magnet for all things Swedish in St. Petersburg is definitely the Consulate General of Sweden, located neatly on the corner of Shvedskiy (Swedish) Lane and Malaya Konyushennaya St. If simply seeing the consulate from the outside doesn’t feel like a legitimate reason to go there, consider discovering the Evange…

  10.12.2021