List of cultural icons of Russia
Double-headed eagle
Peter the Great
Trinity by Andrei Rublev
Moscow Kremlin
Hermitage/Winter Palace
Kizhi
Volga River
Lake Baikal
Mount Elbrus
Trans-Siberian Railway
Cossacks
Samovar
Blini
Matryoshka dolls
Tetris
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Pavlova
Yuri Gagarin
Front page of War and Peace
Bolshoi Theatre
Moscow Metro
Sputnik 1
AK-47
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.
Animals[]
- Black Russian Terrier, Borzoi
- Central Asian Shepherd Dog
- Donskoy (cat)
- East-European Shepherd, East Siberian Laika
- Eurasian brown bear, Polar bear
- Hortaya Borzaya
- Kurilian Bobtail,
- Moscow Watchdog, Moscow Water Dog
- Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Tundra Swan, Black Swan
- Orlov trotter
- Peterbald
- Red fox, Arctic Fox
- 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
- West Siberian Laika
Army[]
- AK-47
- PPSh-41
- Mosin-Nagant
- Battleship Potemkin
- Cruiser Aurora
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Katyusha rocket launcher
- MiG-15, MiG-21, MiG-29, Su-27
- Mi-24, Ka-50
- RPG-7, Soviet atom bomb
- T-34, T-54/55, T-72
- Yak-9, Il-2
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, Russian icons
- Valentin Serov, Ivan Shishkin, Socialist realism, Suprematism, Vasily Surikov
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Viktor Vasnetsov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Mikhail Vrubel
- Chess
Crafts and handicraft techniques: Gzhel, Dymkovo toys, Imperial porcelain, Khokhloma, Matryoshka doll, Palekh miniature, Vologda lace
Buildings and structures[]
- Admiralty Board, 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
- Red Square
- 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
Dress[]
- Budenovka
- Kokoshnik, Kosovorotka
- Lapti
- Orenburg shawl
- Papakhi
- Sarafan
- Telnyashka
- Ushanka
- Valenki
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
- Gold star
- Russian Bear
- Slavsya
- National anthem of Russia, State Anthem of the Soviet Union
Folklore[]
- Alyosha Popovich
- Baba Yaga, Byliny
- Dobrynya Nikitich, Domovoi
- Ilya Muromets, Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan the Fool
- Firebird
- Kolobok
- Leshy
- Nightingale the Robber, Nikita the Furrier
- Sadko, Svyatogor
- Zmey Gorynych
Food and drink[]
- Beef Stroganoff, Blini, Borodinsky bread, Borscht
- Caviar, Coulibiac
- Dressed herring
- Kissel, Korovai, Kvass, Kulich
- Mors
- Okroshka, Olivier salad
- Paskha, Pastila, Pelmeni, Pirozhki
- Russian vodka
- Shashlik, Shchi, Stroganina, Solyanka, Sushki
- Ukha
- Veal Orloff
- Zakuski, Zefir
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'
- Old Russian letopises
- Perestroika, Peter the Great, Primary Chronicle
- House of Romanov, Rurik, Russian Civil War, Russian Republic, Russian Revolution
- Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin
- Time of Troubles
Holidays[]
- Rojdestvo
- Paskha
- Ivan Kupala Day
- Kolyada
- Maslenitsa, Midsummer
- Svyatki
Industry[]
- Buran (spacecraft)
- Gazprom
- Severstal
- Soviet space program
- Soyuz (spacecraft)
- Sputnik 1
- Vostok 1
- Lada[1][2]
Literature[]
- Anna Akhmatova, Anna Karenina
- Mikhail Bakunin, Andrei Bely, Alexander Blok, Joseph Brodsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Valery Bryusov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin
- *Anton Chekhov, Crime and Punishment
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 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
- Old Russian letopises, Alexander Ostrovsky
- Boris Pasternak, Primary Chronicle, Alexander Pushkin
- Samizdat, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Strugatsky brothers
- 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[]
- 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, Ivan Konev, 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 of Russia
- 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
Religion[]
- Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Avvakum
- Cathedral of the Archangel, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, Church of the Savior on Blood
- Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
- John of Kronstadt
- Kazan Cathedral, Saint Petersburg
- Most Holy Synod
- Novodevichy Convent
- Old Believers
- Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Raskol, Russian icons
- Saint Basil's Cathedral, Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Seraphim of Sarov, Sergius of Radonezh, Smolny Convent
- Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
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[]
- 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
- Masha and the Bear
- 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
Transport[]
- GAZ-M20, GAZ-21, GAZ-69
- Ilyushin
- KamAZ, Kukuruznik
- Lada Niva
- Mil MHP, Moscow Metro, Metro-2
- Russo-Balt
- Sheremetyevo
- Trans-Siberian Railway, Tupolev Tu-154
- UAZ-452, UAZ-469
- Volga–Don Canal
- ZiL
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 Japan
- 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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