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.
Peter the Great statue - The Bronze Horseman
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Army
- AK-47
- Battleship Potemkin
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Kamov Ka-50, Katyusha rocket launcher
- Mikoyan MiG-29
- Soviet atom bomb, Sukhoi Su-27
- T-34
- Yakovlev Yak-9
Art, craft
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Léon Bakst, Vasili Bazhenov, Ivan Bilibin, Karl Briullov,
- Marc Chagall,
- Peter Carl Fabergé
- Feofan Grek
- Wassily Kandinsky, Matvey Kazakov, Orest Kiprensky, Pyotr Konchalovsky, 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, Alexey Shchusev, Ivan Shishkin, Vladimir Shukhov, Vasily Surikov
- Vladimir Tatlin, Konstantin Thon, Vasily Tropinin
- Viktor Vasnetsov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Mikhail Vrubel
- Nikolai Yaroshenko
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
Artistic groups: ASNOVA, Donkey's Tail, Jack of Diamonds, Mitki, OSA Group, Peredvizhniki, VKhUTEMAS
Crafts and handicraft technics: Gzhel, Dymkovo toys, Imperial porcelain, Khokhloma, Matryoshka doll, Palekh miniature, Vologda lace
Buildings and structures
- Admiralty Building, 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
Emblems and Symbols
- Coat of arms of Russia, Coat of arms of Moscow
- Double-headed eagle (variant: triple-headed eagle)
- Flag of Russia, Flag of Soviet Union
- Hammer and sickle
- Mother Motherland, Mother Russia
- Russian Bear
Folklore
- Alyosha Popovich
- Baba Yaga, Byliny
- Dobrynya Nikitich, Domovoi
- Ilya Muromets, Ivan Tsarevich
- Kolobok
- Firebird
- Leshy
- Nightingale the Robber, Nikita the Furrier
- Sadko, Svyatogor
- Zmey Gorynych
Industry, science
- Oleg Antonov
- Buran (spacecraft)
- Gazprom
- Sergey Ilyushin
- Vladimir Shukhov, Igor Sikorsky, Pavel Sukhoi
- Sergei Korolyov, Severstal, Soviet space program, Soyuz (spacecraft), Sputnik 1
- Andrei Tupolev
- Vostok 1
Literature
See also: Russian 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
- 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
see also: Russian Opera, Russian Orthodox bell ringing, Russian rock
- 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, Rodion Shchedrin, Dmitri Shostakovich
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Vladimir Vysotsky
Russian music instruments: Balalaika, Bayan, Domra, Garmon, Gusli, Russian guitar, Treshchotka, Svirel
Places
- Garden Ring, Golden Ring
- Kazan
- Novgorod
- Red Square, Rostov
- Sergiyev Posad, Siberia, Smolensk, Sochi, Suzdal
- Tobolsk, Tula
- Ural Mountains
- Veliky Novgorod, Vladimir, Volga, Vologda
- World Heritage Sites in Russia
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
- 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, Yuri Levitan, 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, 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
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 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 Wales
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