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What Russian art and culture is known for? / Бренды русского искусства |...

This video has Russian subtitles so that you can read along and translate the words that you don't understand. The topics in the video include topics such as art vocabulary, Russian literature - F. M. Dostoevsky, Russian ballet, crafts such as the Matryoshka doll, Russian cinema, the Cyrillic alphabet and Russian avant-garde art.

Siberian petroglyphs / Петроглифы Сибири | Exlinguo

This Russian language school has started to add subtitles in Russian to recordings of presentations. This particular presentation is about petroglyphs and myths in Siberia. For instance,  starting about 10:30 into the video... the presenter describes a myth from ancient Siberia depicted on petroglyphs. The people had a myth that the sun was deer that passed over the earth each day, and behind it a hunter followed on his skies. The Milky Way at night was the path left in the snow by the hunter. 

RUSSIA TRAVEL for First Timers - what YOU NEED to KNOW | Moscow & St. Pe...

An English language video describing a trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg from the Hey Nadine channel. People that don't speak the English language will be particularly interested in this one. I had some non-Russian speaking friends that visited Moscow, and their experiences were much the same. They had no trouble getting around. Of course, for those of you interested in learning Russian... you can see some Russian signs in their shots of the cities.