Publications

Sergey Vinogradov The Russian American director Stepnov allows to be referred to as Vyacheslav Yuryevich, and Slava. By the latter name he is known in the United States where he has lived for more than 25 years. Slava Stepnov describes 2022 as a year of celebration since it marked his 70th birthday and the 25th anniversary of the STEPS Theatre founded by him in New York. He has also published a book in Russian about his winding artistic journey, described as "a history of losses and discoveries." Slava Stepnov was born in Kerch. He graduated from Russian Institute of Theatre Arts GITIS, and worked in Russian...

Anna Efremova Yuri Knorozov. Photo credit: smotrim.ru "What was created by one human mind can certainly be resolved by another," said Yuri Knorozov, a Russian scientist back in 1996 when Mexican television asked him how he had managed to decode the Mayan language. The Soviet scientist never visited Mexico. How he succeeded in accomplishing what the world's best experts had struggled with for so many years, is still a mystery. Mysterious Mayan Codices … Johann Goetze, a librarian at the Dresden library, purchased an ancient manuscript from an unknown person in Vienna in...

Svetlana Smetanina Massimo Eccli at the presentation of Sovietici documentary. Photo credit: Krasnogorsk branch of the Victory Museum Italian language and literature professor Massimo Eccli has worked many years on recovering the memory of Soviet partisans who took part in the Resistance movement in Italy during World War II. Eccli worked for many years in Russian and Italian archives, and wrote a book about Russian members of the Resistance. Just recently, documentary film based on his book "Sovietichi" was presented tp a wide audience. – You have presented the Sovietichi...

Anna Efremova Leonid Kupriyanovich. Photo from Za Rulem (Behind the steering wheel) Magazine No.12 (1957) Soviet radio engineer and inventor Leonid Kupriyanovich got a patent in 1957 for a wireless phone device. The first portable cell phone weighed 6.6 lbs. The inventor managed to reduce its weight to 1.1 lbs one year later. In 1961, he presented a portable handset weighing 0.15 lbs only. Back then, Ogoniok and TASS reported about him, and his inventions were covered in news footage. Nevertheless, cell phones were not produced in the USSR, and his invention was forgotten for about a quarter of a...

Elena Khruleva Photo credit: strana-rosatom.ru There was news that went almost unnoticed at the end of September: Russian scientists have succeeded in operating the fourth power unit at Beloyarsk NPS in the Sverdlovsk Region at 100% capacity with a full load of innovative MOX fuel. This provided an opportunity to close the nuclear cycle.  How can it be explained in simple terms? The testing suggests so-called fast-neutron reactors have been developed, which are a revolutionary novelty. There is no longer a need to dispose the nuclear waste from other nuclear power plants and make exclusion...

Editor’s office of the Russkiy Mir Portal  Photo credit: Vyacheslav Gladkov/Telegram The edtor's office of the Russkiy Mir Portal has got a letter that provides a clear overview from the first-person perspective of what is happening now in the towns and settlements of Donbass that have been shelled by the Ukrainian army. This letter is from the town of Zolotoye in the Lugansk People's Republic. It was written by Marina Katrushenko, a school teacher, and addressed to volunteers of the Alliance for the Future of Donbass, a non-profit organization from Germany that has been delivering...