Marina Tarasova, Alexander Oshchepkov/ngs.ru Descendants of German settlers in Russia manage to this day to retain the culture and customs of their forebears in the Altay and Omsk steppes. Looking ...

In the Russian republic of Kalmykia, the encroaching desert has transformed the landscape. “Nature,” one farmer said, “is forcing us to leave.” A farmer’s shelter on the Kalmyk steppe ...

Montana cowboy Wayne Walter herds cattle up a hill on the Russian steppes. Photograph by Ryan Bell. It was a strange scenario for two countries endowed with a cow’s paradise of water and grass.

Russia’s growing industry needs more & more cotton, and in 1938 used the entire harvest of 3,000,000 tons (12,000,000 bales). Last week the Soviet press exulted that Russia would soon export ...

But after seeing footage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft crash down on the remote Kazakh Steppe 10 years ago, photographer Andrew McConnell became more enraptured by astronauts’ unceremonious ...

How Russia’s steppe warriors took on Napoleon’s armies. ... The general had fallen victim to the Kalmyk cavalry, irregular Russian Army units of horsemen from the Lower Volga steppes.

The social media ads promised the young African women a free plane ticket, money and a faraway adventure in Europe. Just complete a computer game and a 100-word Russian vocabulary test.