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A cheerful and brave onion from sunny Italy named Cipollino in the 1950s became a symbol of the victory of an oppressed people over...

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January 25, which the Scots themselves call Burns supper, is a national holiday in Scotland. This day is celebrated by fans...

Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko (January 2, 1913, Odessa - November 25, 1963, Leningrad). Commander of the Red Banner submarine S-13...

Russian poet, master of landscape, psychological, philosophical and patriotic lyrics, Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev comes from ancient...

The dark spruce forest was covered in snow like fur, covered with gray frosts, in sparkles of frost, as if in diamonds, dozed off, bending over...

The characteristics of Mikula Selyaninovich are studied as part of the literature program in the seventh grade. It was during this period that guys...

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Evgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko - Russian writer, screenwriter, director, was born on July 18, 1932 in Irkutsk...

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In the Moscow metro at the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station, 76 bronze sculptures are located in the niches of the hall. Sculptor Matvey Manizer created...