List of cultural icons of Russia
This is a list of cultural icons of Russia. It contains the most important symbols of Russia, including its national symbols and symbols associated with various aspects of the Russian culture.
Peter the Great statue - The Bronze Horseman
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Army
- AK-47
- Battleship Potemkin
- Cruiser Aurora
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Ka-50, Katyusha rocket launcher
- MiG-29
- Soviet atom bomb, Su-27
- T-34
- Yak-9
Art, craft
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Léon Bakst, Karl Briullov
- Marc Chagall, Constructivism (art and architecture),
- Peter Carl Fabergé
- Vasily Kandinsky, Ivan Kramskoi
- Isaac Levitan
- Kazimir Malevich, Vera Mukhina
- Peredvizhniki, Vasily Perov, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
- Ilya Repin, Alexander Rodchenko, Nicholas Roerich, Andrei Rublev, Russian avant-garde
- Valentin Serov, Ivan Shishkin, Socialist realism, Suprematism, Vasily Surikov
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Viktor Vasnetsov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Mikhail Vrubel
Crafts and handicraft technics: Gzhel, Dymkovo toys, Imperial porcelain, Khokhloma, Matryoshka doll, Palekh miniature, Vologda lace
Buildings and structures
- VDNH
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Catherine Palace, Church of the Savior on Blood
- Ivan the Great Bell Tower
- Kazan Kremlin
- Lenin's Mausoleum
- Moscow Kremlin
- Novodevichy Convent
- Peterhof Palace, Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Russky Bridge
- Saint Basil's Cathedral, Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Michael's Castle, Seven Sisters, Shukhov tower
- Trans-Siberian Railway, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
- White House, Winter Palace
Emblems and symbols
- Coat of arms of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Double-headed eagle
- Flag of Russia, Flag of Soviet Union, Victory Banner
- Hammer and sickle
- Mother Motherland, Mother Russia
- Red star
- Russian Bear
- National anthem of Russia, State Anthem of the Soviet Union
Folklore
- Alyosha Popovich
- Baba Yaga, Byliny
- Dobrynya Nikitich, Domovoi
- Ilya Muromets, Ivan Tsarevich
- Kolobok
- Firebird
- Leshy
- Nightingale the Robber, Nikita the Furrier
- Sadko, Svyatogor
- Zmey Gorynych
Food and drink
History and legend
- Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander Nevsky, Grand Duchess Anastasia
- Bolsheviks
- Catherine the Great, Christianization of Kievan Rus'
- Dmitry Donskoy
- French invasion of Russia
- Great Northern War
- Ivan the Terrible
- Kievan Rus
- Vladimir Lenin
- Minin and Pozharsky, Mongol invasion of Rus'
- Perestroika, Peter the Great
- House of Romanov, Rurik, Russian Civil War, Russian Republic, Russian Revolution
- Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin
- Time of Troubles
Industry
- Buran (spacecraft)
- Gazprom
- Severstal, Soviet space program, Soyuz (spacecraft), Sputnik 1
- Vostok 1
- Lada[1][2]
Literature
See also: Russian literature
- Anna Akhmatova, Anna Karenina
- Mikhail Bakunin, Andrei Bely, Alexander Blok, Joseph Brodsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Valery Bryusov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
- Dead Souls, Gavrila Derzhavin, Doctor Zhivago, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Eugene Onegin
- Aleksandr Griboyedov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Maxim Gorky, The Gulag Archipelago
- Ilf and Petrov
- Nikolay Karamzin, Daniil Kharms, Peter Kropotkin, 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, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Strugatsky brothers
- 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
- Alexandrov Ensemble
- 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, Dmitri Shostakovich
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Vladimir Vysotsky
Russian music instruments: Balalaika, Bayan, Domra, Garmon, Gusli, Russian guitar, Treshchotka, Svirel
People
- Leonid Brezhnev, Aleksei Brusilov
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Sergey Ilyushin
- Pyotr Kapitsa, Nikita Khrushchev Sergei Korolyov, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Mikhail Kutuzov
- Lev Landau, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Mikhail Lomonosov
- Ilya Mechnikov, Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitry Mendeleev, Alexander Menshikov, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
- Nestor the Chronicler
- Alexey Pajitnov, Ivan Pavlov, Vladimir Putin
- Vladimir Shukhov, Igor Sikorsky, Pitirim Sorokin, Pavel Sukhoi, Ivan Susanin, Alexander Suvorov
- Leon Trotsky, Andrei Tupolev
- Nikolai Vavilov
- Yermak Timofeyevich
- Boris Yeltsin
- Georgy Zhukov
Places
- Garden Ring, Golden Ring
- Kazan, Kizhi
- Novgorod
- Red Square, Rostov
- Sergiyev Posad, Siberia, Smolensk, Sochi, Solovetsky Islands, Suzdal
- Tobolsk, Tula
- Ural Mountains
- Veliky Novgorod, Vladimir, Volga, Vologda
- World Heritage Sites in Russia
Sport
- Vladimir Chagin, CSKA Moscow: football, hockey, basketball
- FC Dynamo Moscow
- Fedor Emelianenko
- Yelena Isinbayeva
- Aleksandr Karelin, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, KHL
- Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, Luzhniki Stadium
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Evgeni Plushenko
- Russian Football Premier League, Russia National Football Team
- Maria Sharapova, FC Spartak Moscow
- Lev Yashin
- 1980 Summer Olympics, 2014 Winter Olympics, 2018 FIFA World Cup
Television, radio, film, 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, Yuri Levitan, 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, Tetris
Theatre, circus
- George Balanchine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, 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
References
- ↑ "Lada's iconic Classic reaches the end of the road". Automotive News. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
- ↑ "Russia's Iconic Lada Cars Hit by Plunging Ruble". Retrieved 2016-10-01.
See also
- Cultural icon
- List of cultural icons of England
- List of cultural icons of France
- List of cultural icons of Germany
- List of cultural icons of Italy
- List of cultural icons of the Netherlands
- List of cultural icons of Northern Ireland
- List of cultural icons of Scotland
- List of cultural icons of Spain
- List of cultural icons of Ukraine
- List of cultural icons of Wales
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