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.
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Animals
- Black Russian Terrier, Borzoi
- Central Asian Shepherd Dog
- Donskoy (cat)
- East-European Shepherd, East Siberian Laika
- Hortaya Borzaya
- Kurilian Bobtail,
- Moscow Watchdog, Moscow Water Dog
- Orlov trotter
- Peterbald
- 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
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
- 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
Emblems and symbols
Folklore
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
Holidays
Industry
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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