Year 2019 has been declared the Year of Theatre in Russia. The Presidential Library’s collection, marking this event, reveals various aspects of the development of theatre in Russia: the history of theatre in pre-Petrine Rus, theatrical…
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 295 competitors, 255 men and 40 women, took part in 141 events in 18 sports. [2 ]