#Russia

Today Volgograd is a major industrial, educational and scientific center that stretches for 100 kilometers as a narrow strip along the Volga River bank.

Belgorod is a multinational advanced city in the south of the Central Russian Upland, the scientific, cultural, economic and spiritual center of the Central Black Earth Region of Russia.

The Russian Museum is the world’s largest museum of Russian art, a unique architectural and artistic complex in the historic center of Saint Petersburg.

The museum’s richest exhibition consists of more than 400,000 items and tells us about the evolution theory development history, the diversity of life on Earth, variation and heredity, natural selection and struggle for existence in nature.

In our Cultural Code column, we plan to familiarize our readers with diversity of Russia, its geography, history, literature, architecture, and cuisine.

Over the last years, there has been a considerable revival of Iranians’ interest in Russian literature. This is evidenced by an increased number of original Russian-language texts translated into Persian (Farsi).