List of cultural icons of Russia

Animals

• Black Russian Terrier, Borzoi
• Central Asian Shepherd Dog
• Donskoy
• East-European Shepherd, East Siberian Laika
• Hortaya Borzaya
• Kurilian Bobtail,
• Moscow Watchdog, Moscow Water Dog
• Orlov trotter
• Peterbald
• Russian Black Pied, Russian Blue, Russian Don, Russian Heavy Draft, Russian Spaniel, Russian Trotter, Russian Toy, Russo-European Laika
• Samoyed, Siberian, Siberian Husky, South Russian Ovcharka
• West Siberian Laika

  Army

• AK-47
• PPSh-41
• Mosin-Nagant
• Battleship Potemkin
• Cruiser Aurora
• Hero of the Soviet Union
• Katyusha rocket launcher
• MiG-15, MiG-21, MiG-29, Su-27
• Mi-24, Ka-50
• RPG-7, Soviet atom bomb
• T-34, T-54/55, T-72
• Yak-9

  Art, craft

• Ivan Aivazovsky
• Léon Bakst, Karl Briullov
• Marc Chagall, Constructivism,
• Peter Carl Fabergé
• Vasily Kandinsky, Ivan Kramskoi
• Isaac Levitan
• Kazimir Malevich, Vera Mukhina
• Peredvizhniki, Vasily Perov, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
• Ilya Repin, Alexander Rodchenko, Nicholas Roerich, Andrei Rublev, Russian avant-garde
• Valentin Serov, Ivan Shishkin, Socialist realism, Suprematism, Vasily Surikov
• Vladimir Tatlin
• Viktor Vasnetsov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Mikhail Vrubel
• Chess

Buildings and structures

• Admiralty Board, VDNH
• Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Catherine Palace, Church of the Savior on Blood
• Ivan the Great Bell Tower
• Kazan Kremlin
• Lenin's Mausoleum
• Moscow Kremlin
• Red Square
• Novodevichy Convent
• Peterhof Palace, Peter and Paul Cathedral
• Russky Bridge
• Saint Basil's Cathedral, Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Michael's Castle, Seven Sisters, Shukhov tower
• Trans-Siberian Railway, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
• White House, Winter Palace

  Dress

• Budenovka
• Kokoshnik, Kosovorotka
• Lapti
• Orenburg shawl
• Papakhi
• Sarafan
• Telnyashka
• Ushanka
• Valenki

  Emblems and symbols

• Coat of arms of Russia and the Soviet Union
• Double-headed eagle
• Flag of Russia, Flag of Soviet Union, Victory Banner
• Hammer and sickle
• Mother Motherland, Mother Russia
• Red star
• Russian Bear
• Slavsya
• National anthem of Russia, State Anthem of the Soviet Union

  Folklore

• Alyosha Popovich
• Baba Yaga, Byliny
• Dobrynya Nikitich, Domovoi
• Ilya Muromets, Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan the Fool
• Firebird
• Kolobok
• Leshy
• Nightingale the Robber, Nikita the Furrier
• Sadko, Svyatogor
• Zmey Gorynych

  Food and drink

• Beef Stroganoff, Blini, Borodinsky bread, Borscht
• Caviar, Coulibiac
• Dressed herring
• Kissel, Korovai, Kvass, Kulich
• Mors
• Okroshka, Olivier salad
• Paskha, Pastila, Pelmeni, Pirozhki
• Russian vodka
• Shashlik, Shchi, Stroganina, Solyanka, Sushki
• Ukha
• Veal Orloff
• Zakuski, Zefir

  History and legend

• Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander Nevsky, Grand Duchess Anastasia
• Bolsheviks
• Catherine the Great, Christianization of Kievan Rus'
• Dmitry Donskoy
• French invasion of Russia
• Great Northern War
• Ivan the Terrible
• Kievan Rus
• Vladimir Lenin
• Minin and Pozharsky, Mongol invasion of Rus'
• Perestroika, Peter the Great
• House of Romanov, Rurik, Russian Civil War, Russian Republic, Russian Revolution
• Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin
• Time of Troubles

  Holidays

• Rojdestvo
• Paskha
• Ivan Kupala Day
• Kolyada
• Maslenitsa, Midsummer
• Svyatki

  Industry

• Buran
• Gazprom
• Severstal
• Soviet space program
• Soyuz
• Sputnik 1
• Vostok 1
• Lada

  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
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 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

Music

• Alexandrov Ensemble
• 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, Dmitri Shostakovich
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Vladimir Vysotsky

People

• Leonid Brezhnev, Aleksei Brusilov
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Sergey Ilyushin
• Pyotr Kapitsa, Nikita Khrushchev Sergei Korolyov, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Mikhail Kutuzov
• Lev Landau, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Mikhail Lomonosov
• Ilya Mechnikov, Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitry Mendeleev, Alexander Menshikov, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
• Nestor the Chronicler
• Alexey Pajitnov, Ivan Pavlov, Vladimir Putin
• Vladimir Shukhov, Igor Sikorsky, Pitirim Sorokin, Pavel Sukhoi, Ivan Susanin, Alexander Suvorov
• Leon Trotsky, Andrei Tupolev
• Nikolai Vavilov
• Yermak Timofeyevich
• Boris Yeltsin
• Georgy Zhukov

  Places

• Garden Ring, Golden Ring of Russia
• Kazan, Kizhi
• Novgorod
• Red Square, Rostov
• Sergiyev Posad, Siberia, Smolensk, Sochi, Solovetsky Islands, Suzdal
• Tobolsk, Tula
• Ural Mountains
• Veliky Novgorod, Vladimir, Volga, Vologda
• World Heritage Sites in Russia

  Religion

• Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Avvakum
• Cathedral of the Archangel, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, Church of the Savior on Blood
• Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
• John of Kronstadt
• Kazan Cathedral, Saint Petersburg
• Most Holy Synod
• Novodevichy Convent
• Old Believers
• Peter and Paul Cathedral
• Raskol
• Saint Basil's Cathedral, Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Seraphim of Sarov, Sergius of Radonezh, Smolny Convent
• Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius

  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

• 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
• Masha and the Bear
• 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, Tetris

  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

  Transport

• GAZ-M20, GAZ-21, GAZ-69
• Ilyushin
• KamAZ, Kukuruznik
• Lada Niva
• Mil MHP, Moscow Metro, Metro-2
• Russo-Balt
• Sheremetyevo
• Trans-Siberian Railway, Tupolev Tu-154
• UAZ-452, UAZ-469
• Volga–Don Canal
• ZiL