On Friday night, January 30, the library of the Academic Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) caught fire in Moscow. Firemen have been trying to extinguish a fire for almost 12 hours.

Derbent is the oldest city in Russia and one of the oldest cities in the world. The celebration of the 2000 anniversary of Derbent will cost more than 1.7 billion roubles, about 1.2 billion of which will be allocated from the federal budget.

The Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, responding to the initiative of the Legislative Assembly Deputy Vitali Milonov on giving the name of Akhmad Kadyrov to one of the city streets, questioned the need for such action.

The Youth Department of Rostov-on-Don is holding a contest for the best selfie on the background of a favorite place in the city.

A special section on the Planetarium website for 3D-tours will appear. Entering it, users will be able to see all the exhibition halls: a large hall star, the “Uraina” museum and the interactive museum “Lunarium”, the sky park with two observatory towers, the 4D-cinema and the small star room.

Special equipment for measuring of the accurate weight of the largest fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite will be brought in the Chelyabinsk Regional History Museum.

The world record for creation of the biggest gastronomic map will be set on January 31 at the restaurant “Mergen” in Ulan-Ude. It is planned that the dimensions of the map will be 5 m to 2.5 m.

The Administration of Rostov-on-Don appeals to the residents of Rostov asking them to participate in the selection of the architectural symbol of the Don capital.

A tubing slide 8 meters high and 35 meters long operates next to the skating rink at the ENEA on the site between the pavilion No. 64 “Optics” and the food court.

Moscow region officials plan to start the construction of a so-called 'light' overground metro in the region next year, governor Andrey Vorobyov told the press on Friday, January 23.