List of cultural icons of Russia
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
- Ussuri (cat)
- West Siberian Laika
Art, architecture
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Leon Bakst, Vasili Bazhenov, Ivan Bilibin, Karl Briullov,
- Marc Chagall,
- Peter Carl Fabergé
- Feofan Grek
- Wassily Kandinsky, Matvey Kazakov, Orest Kiprensky, Konstantin Korovin, Ivan Kramskoi, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Boris Kustodiev
- Mikhail Larionov, Isaac Levitan
- Konstantin Makovsky, Kazimir Malevich, Konstantin Melnikov, Vera Mukhina
- Mikhail Nesterov
- Vasily Perov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Peredvizhniki, Postnik Yakovlev
- Russian Academy of Arts, Ilya Repin, Alexander Rodchenko, Nicholas Roerich, Andrei Rublev
- Alexei Savrasov, Valentin Serov, Ivan Shishkin, Vladimir Shukhov, Vasily Surikov
- Konstantin Thon, Vasily Tropinin
- Viktor Vasnetsov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Mikhail Vrubel
- Nikolai Yaroshenko
Russian art movements: Constructivism (art and architecture), Cubo-Futurism, Naryshkin Baroque, Neo-primitivism, Nonconformism, Petrine Baroque, Postconstructivism, Rayonism, Russian avant-garde, Russian neoclassical revival, Russian Revival, Russian Symbolism, Suprematism, Socialist realism, Stalinist Empire style
Russian artistic groups: ASNOVA, Donkey's Tail, Jack of Diamonds, Mitki, Peredvizhniki, VKhUTEMAS
Buildings and structures
- Admiralty Board, All-Russia Exhibition Centre
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Catherine Palace, Church of the Savior on Blood, Church of the Intercession on the Nerl
- Derbent
- Ivan the Great Bell Tower
- Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Kazan Kremlin, Kolomenskoye, Kresty prison
- Lenin's Mausoleum
- Marble Palace, Moscow City Hall, Moscow Kremlin, Moscow Manege
- Novgorod Kremlin, Novodevichy Convent
- Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns
- Pavlovsk Palace, Peterhof Palace, Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Saint Basil's Cathedral, Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Michael's Castle, Seven Sisters,*Smolny Convent, Solovetsky Monastery, Suzdal Kremlin
- Terem Palace, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
- Valaam Monastery
- Winter Palace
Dress
Emblems, Symbols and Allegories
Food and drink
- Beef Stroganoff, Blini, Borscht, Bublik
- Chicken Kiev
- Dressed herring
- Kalach, Kholodets, Kompot, Korovai, Kvass, Kulich
- Medovukha
- Okroshka
- Pelmeni, Pirozhki, Plov
- Rassolnik, Russian salad
- Sbiten, Shashlyk, Shchi, Smetana, Solyanka, Sushki, Syrniki
- Vareniki, Vatrushka, Vobla, Vodka
- Ukha
Government and politics
Holidays
Language
See also: List of English words of Russian origin
Literature
See also: Russian literature
- Anna Akhmatova, Anna Karenina
- Andrei Bely, Alexander Blok, Joseph Brodsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Valery Bryusov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin
- Anton Chekhov, Crime and Punishment
- Dead Souls, Gavrila Derzhavin, Doctor Zhivago, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Eugene Onegin
- Aleksandr Griboyedov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Maxim Gorky, The Gulag Archipelago
- Alexander Herzen
- Ilf and Petrov
- Nikolay Karamzin, Daniil Kharms, 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, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Mikhail Sholokhov
- 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
see also: Russian Opera, Russian Orthodox bell ringing, Russian rock
Russian music instruments: Balalaika, Bayan, Domra, Garmon, Gusli, Russian guitar, Treshchotka, Svirel
Myths, legends, and folklore
Philosophy
Russian philosophical movements: Marxism-Leninism, Pochvennichestvo, Russian anarchism, Russian cosmism, Slavophiles, Tolstovstvo, Westernizers
Places
- Altai Mountains, Astrakhan, Azov Sea
- Baikal, Barents Sea, Bering Sea, Black Sea
- Caspian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Chukotka
- Derbent, Cape Dezhnev
- East Siberian Sea
- Garden Ring, Golden Ring
- Lake Ilmen,
- Kamchatka, Kara Sea, Kazan, Kizhi, Kostroma, Kronstadt, Kuznetsk Basin
- Laptev Sea, Lena River,
- Sea of Okhotsk, Oymyakon,
- Pskov
- Red Square,
- Sergiyev Posad, Siberia, Smolensk, Sochi, Suzdal
- Tobolsk, Tula
- Ural Mountains,
- Veliky Novgorod, Volga, Vologda
- White Sea
- Yakutia, Yaroslavl, Yenisei
Press
Sport
- Ak Bars Kazan, Andrei Arshavin, Avangard Omsk
- Pavel Bure
- Vladimir Chagin, PBC CSKA Moscow, PFC CSKA Moscow
- FC Dynamo Moscow
- Viacheslav Fetisov, Sergei Fedorov
- Aleksandr Karelin, Nikolai Khabibulin, Kontinental Hockey League, FC Krylya Sovetov Samara
- FC Lokomotiv Moscow, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
- Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Evgeni Plushenko
- Lev Yashin, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, Maria Sharapova, FC Spartak Moscow
- Vladislav Tretiak, Kostya Tszyu
- FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
Television, cinema & 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, 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
Theatre, circus
- George Balanchine, 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
War
- AK-47
- Kulikovo, Stalingrad, Borodino, Brusilov Offensive
- Cossacks
- Great Northern War, Great Patriotic War, Ugra stand
- Kamov Ka-50, Kunersdorf
- Mikoyan MiG-29
- Order of Victory
- Poltava, Port Arthur
- Red Army, Soviet atom bomb, Battleship Potemkin, Russian Civil War, Russian Imperial Giard
- Sevastopol, Siege of Leningrad, Sukhoi Su-27, Alexander Suvorov
- T-34
- War of 1812, White movement
See also