In Putin's Footsteps

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Abramovich, Roman

Agata Kristi

agriculture

airports

AK-47

Akademgorodok

Akhmatova, Anna

Albertina University

alcoholism

Alexander I

Alexandra, empress

amber

Ammosov, Maksim

Amur River

Amur tigers

Andreyevsky Descent, Kiev

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

anti-Semitism

apparatchiks

apple trees

architecture

Constructivist

of Moscow

neo-Russian

socialist classicism

Stalinist

Arctic Ocean

Arkhangelsk

art, avant-garde

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), 2012 summit

atomic bomb

autocrats

Azarov, Dmitry

Baikal-Amur Railroad (BAM)

Baikal Lake

bakeries

Baltic fleet

Baltic Plain

Baltic Sea

Baltiysk (Pillau)

Basil II

bears

Beketov, Pyotr

Beria, Lavrenty

Berlag (Coastal Labor Camp)

Bessonov, Tatyana

blackouts (power)

Black Sea

blacksmiths

Blagoveshchensk

Bolshevik Revolution of 1917

bookstores

Brezhnev, Leonid

bribes

bridges

Briner, Yuly (Jules)

Brodsky, Yury

Bucharest Declaration of 2008

Buddhism

buildings

five-story

gigantic size

Bukovsky, Vladimir

Bulatov, Erik

Bulgakov, Mikhail

Buryatia

Buryats

Bush, George W.

Butugychag labor camp

Byzantine Empire

cab drivers

cafés

capitalism in Russia

Carroll, Lewis

cars

foreign made

Russian made

and traffic

Caspian Sea

cathedrals

destruction of

rebuilding of

Catherine I

Catherine II, the Great

cats

Caucasus

caviar

centralization of state power

regions’ defense against

Chagall, Marc

Chaif

Chapel of Saint Nicholas

Chechen wars

Cheka

Chekhov, Anton

chelnoki (“suitcase traders”)

Chernyshevsky, Nikolai

Chersonesus

China

alliance with Russia

border with Russia

comparisons with Russia

investments in Russia

relations with Russia

single time zone of

threat to Siberia

wars with Russia

Chinese, in Russia

Chinese language

Chirkunov, Oleg

Chita

Christianity

Chubais, Anatoly

Chukchis

Chukotka oblast

churches, destruction of

Churchill, Winston

Civil War

climate

summer

winter

Clinton, Hillary

clothing

coffee

collectivization

communism

disappearance of

effect on Russian psyche

promise of

Confucius Institute

constitution, Russian

construction sites

corruption

Cossacks

countersanctions, Russian

Crimea

annexation of (2014)

history

importance of, to Ukraine

Khrushchev’s transfer to Ukraine

Crimea bridge

Crimean Khanate

Crimean Peninsula

cruise ships

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

cult of personality

Currentzis, Teodor

customer service

Cyril and Methodius, Saints

Cyrillic alphabet

czar, rehabilitation of

Dalstroi (Far-Eastern Construction Directorate)

Damansky Island

Decembrists

demonstrations

Demurova, Nina

Derzhava (Fatherland) sculpture

de-Stalinization

Diaghilev, Sergei

diamonds

Dnieper River

documents, personal

Dolgorukiy, Yury

Donetsk People’s Republic

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

double-headed eagle coat of arms

Dudayev, Dzhokhar

Dzerzhinsky, Felix

Dzhugashvili, Joseph

earthquakes

Eastern Economic Forum

eastward migration, incentivizing of

economy, Russian

Ekibastuz

elections

presidential

snap

Elgen camp

emigration to the West

empires

encirclement, fear of

English language, speaking it, in Russia

“Ensk,” the city of N

environmentalist movement

Estonia

ethnic minorities

Eurasia, Russia’s place in

Euromaidan revolt of 2013

Europe

eastern extent of

Russia compared to

European culture

in advertising

and Russian culture

European Union

Evenks

Evens

Fadina, Oksana

Far-Eastern Hectare project

Far Eastern University

fashion

FIFA World Cup soccer tournament (2018)

Finland

fish

fishing industry

Florensky, Pavel

flowers

foreigners

curiosity about

fear of association with

forests

frontier settlement

FSB (Federal Security Service)

fur

Gagarin, Yury

Galich, Alexander

Garin-Mikhailovsky, Nikolai

Garst, Roswell

“gay propaganda” law

Gazprom Bank

Gelman, Marat

gender-awareness

Genghis Khan

genocide

Georgia

Germanization, threat of

Germans, ethnic

expelled from Kaliningrad

Volga region

Germany

history with Russia

Nazi

relations with

Ginzburg, Yevgenia

GlaxoSmithKline

Glinka, Mikhail

Glinka, Sergei

God

Gogol, Nikolai

gold

mining

prospectors

Golden Bridge

Goncharov, Ivan

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Great Patriotic War. See World War II

Great Terror (Stalin’s)

Gribanova, Inna

Grishin, Andrei

grocery coop

Grozny

Gudok (The Whistle)

Gulag

Chief Administration of Labor Camps

condoning of

labor camps

museum of the

prisoners

Gulag Archipelago

Gulf of Amur

GUM department store

guns

hammer and sickle

Heihe

Heilongjiang province

Hermitage

Hermitage Museum

high school students

history

“great man” theory of

obliteration of

Hitler, Adolf

HIV testing

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

holidays

Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C

Holodomor (Great Famine of 1932–1933)

hotels

housing

human rights

humor

Hungary

hunters and outdoorsmen

hydrocarbon industry

hydrofoils

ice cream

icons

Ilf, Ilya

industrialization

infrastructure

Innokenty the Innocent, Saint

innovation

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

intelligentsia

Ipatiev House

Irkutsk

iron hand

Irtysh River

Iskander missiles

Islam

Islamists

Ivan-chai (fireweeds)

Ivan IV (the Terrible)

statue

Ivolginsky Datsan

Japan

Jews

jobless index

jokes, Russian

journalists

Judaism

Just Russia party

Kadyrov, Ramzan

Kalashnikov, Mikhail

Kalinin, Mikhail

Kaliningrad

Free Economic Zone

history

House of Soviets

rebuilding of

Kaliningrad Oblast

Kama River

Kamchatka Penin

Kant, Immanuel

Kant museum

Karamzin, Nikolai

karatelnye organy (punitive organs)

Kazan

Kemerovo

Kerch Strait

bridge

Kerensky, Alexander

KGB

Khan, Genghis

Khan-Khute-Baabay, deity

Khanty-Mansiysk

Khristianovich, Sergei

Khrushchev, Nikita

de-Stalinization

family

Secret Speech

Thaw

Khrushchev, Rada

Khrushchev, Sergei

Khrushcheva, Julia

khrushchevki (five-story apartment complexes)

Khuzhir

Kiev

Kievan Rus

Kim Jong-Il

king crab

Kipling, Rudyard

Kirill, Patriarch

Klemeshev, Andrei

Kolchak, Alexander

Kolyma Krai

Kolyma Trassa (Route)

Königsberg

renamed Kaliningrad

See also Kaliningrad

Königsberg Cathedral

Koryaksky Volcano

Krasnoyarsk

Krasny Prospect, Novosibirsk

Kreshcheniye Rusi (the Baptism of Rus)

Krupskaya, Nadezhda

Krym nash (Crimea is ours)

Kuibyshev, Valerian

Kukly (Puppets), television show

kukly oberegi (straw guardian dolls)

labor camps. See also Gulag

Lake Baikal

land, offered to settlers in Far East

language studies

Latin letters

lavatories, public

Lavrentyev, Mikhail

Lavrov, Sergei

Lebedev, Artemy

Lena River

Lenin

house museum

quoted, on Kant

statues of

Leningrad. See also Saint Petersburg

Lenin Squares, in Soviet cities

Lenskie Stolby (Lena Pillars)

Levin, Leonid

Lokot, Anatoly

Lomonosov, Mikhail

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Lubyanka

Luhansk People’s Republic

Lutheran

Magadan

Magadan Oblast

Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square)

Maidan of Foreign Affairs

Malorossiya

mammoths

Manezh art exhibition

March for the Federalization of Siberia and in Defense of the Constitution

Marx, Karl

Mask of Sorrow

mat gorodov russkikh (mother of all Russian cities)

May 9 Victory Day Parade

Medinsky, Vladimir

Medvedev, Dmitry

Memorial human rights organization

Merkushkin, Nikolai

Mikhailov Square, Kiev

Mikhalkov, Nikita

mineral resources

missile defense systems, U. S.

Molotov, Vyacheslav

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

moments of silence

monarchists

monasteries

Mongols

invaders

Morozov, Sergei

Moscow

architecture

gentrification of

Oruzheiny high-rise

the “Third Rome”

traffic

Moscow Standard Time (MSK)

Moscow University

mosquitos

Müller, Heiko

museums

MusicAeterna

Muslims

names

of people, politics of

of places, changes of

Native Americans

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

nature, submission of, to man

Nautilus Pompilius

Navalny, Alexey

Nazi Germany

Neizvestny, Ernst

Nemtsov, Boris

neoliberalism

New Soviet City

New York City

Nicholas I

Nicholas II

execution of

Nicholas the Miracle Worker, Saint

Nikolaev, Mikhail

Nizhny Novgorod

NKVD

Nonbelievers

non-Russians

North America

North Korea

Nosov, Nikolai

Nosov, Sergei

Novonikolayevsk

Novorossiya Confederate Republic

Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk Oblast

Novye Kolesa (New Wheels)

Obama, Barack

Ob River

October Revolution

officialese

oil industry

oil prices

Old Russian language

oligarchs

Olkhon Island

Olonkho oral epic

Omsk

dust in

as third capital

Omsk Bird

opposition, Russian, as exiles in Ukraine

Orange Revolution of 2004

Orthodox Church

Ost, Andrei

Ostrovsky, Alexander

Ottoman Turks

Oyunsky, Platon

Pacific fleet

Paikidze, Nazí

Palatka

Palin, Sarah

passports

Pasternak, Boris

pastries

patriotism

Pecheny, Vladimir

Perestroika

Perm

Perm-36 labor camp

Peter the Great

Petrograd

Petropavlovsk

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Petrov, Sergei

Petrov, Yevgeny

picture taking

Pionersky

plokhiye dorogi i duraki (bad roads and morons)

poisoning of enemies

Poles

police

political centralization

Ponomarev, Ilya

population transfer

Poroshenko, Petro

Porphyrogenita, Anna

“postponed life”

Potemkin, Prince Grigory

Potemkin villages

Pray, Eleanor Lord

presidential elections, Russian

of 2012

of 2018

priests

Primorsky Krai Maritime Region

Pristavkin, Anatoly

privatization

Prokofiev, Sergei

prostitutes, Japanese

Prussia

Pugachev, Yemelyan

purges

Pushkin, Alexander

Pushnin, Dmitry

Putin, Vladimir

achievements of

building projects

centralization of power

Chechen war

and China

displayed images of

election successes

elegant dressing

on European culture

fourth inauguration

on heroes

KGB past of

myth of Putinism

New Year’s Eve televised addresses (2001, 2017)

and Nicholas II’s remains

people’s feelings about

power ceded to by Yeltsin (1999)

power image of

praise for

regime

and Russian Orthodox Church

and Sakha

travels in Russia

Radchenko, Yevgeny

Rasputin, Grigory

Razin, Stepan

reformers

re-Germanization, feared

regime (Soviet use of word)

regions, autonomy of

reindeer farms

religion

persecution of

Repin, Ilya

restricted access

rezhim raboty (work regime)

rights

river travel

roads

rock bands

Roizman, Yevgeny

Roman Catholicism

Rozhdestvensky, Robert

Rudnikov, Igor

rule of law

ruling elite

Ruriks

Russia

ambitions

civilization of

cultural jingoism

dichotomy of European enlightenment vs. ignorance

discontent

economy

eighty-nine regions of

eleven time zones of

four leaders of

gross domestic product

history of

homogenous but diverse

isolation of

literature of

military expenditure

problems of

split personality

strategic zones of

superpower status

traveling in

uniqueness of, believed

Western, European aspiration

Russian Civil War (1918–1920)

Russian Empire

expansion of

three pillars of

Russian Far East

population

settlers

Russian language

Russian Orthodox Church

attending a service of

criticism of

in czarist era

helping Putin

history of

new churches

number of believers

present-day status of

revived by Stalin

Russian Railways

Russians

Christians

patriots

“superior race”

in Ukraine

“Russian soul”

Saint George ribbons

Saint Michael’s Monastery

Saint Petersburg

Sakha (Yakutia) Republic

Sakha (Yakuts)

independence movement

literature

Sakhalin

salmon

Samara

Kuibyshev Square

sanctions, U.S.

San Francisco

Santa Maria Novella, Moscow store

SBU (Ukraine’s Security Service)

Schism of 1054

Schlumberger company

science

Sekirnaya (Flagellation) Hill

Selenga River

Semipalatinsk

Serbia

Sevostlag (Northeastern Labor Camp)

sexist bias

shamanism

Shamanka

shamans

Shamina, Natalia

Shevchenko, Taras

shoes worn by camp inmates

Shoigu, Sergei

shops and shopping

Siberia

Siberian Cat Park

Siberian Throughway

Sibselmash (Siberian Agricultural Machinery)

sidewalks

Simbirsk

Skolkovo Innovation Center

Skripal, Sergei

Skuratov café

Slavic brotherhood

Slavophiles vs. Westernizers

Slavs, eastern

Sobolev, Sergei

Sobyanin, Irina Bordyur

Sobyanin, Sergei

social conservatism

Social Realism

soldiers

demobilized

Solovetsky Islands (Solovki)

Solovetsky Monastery

Solovetsky Stone

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Soviet mind-set

jargon

survival of

Soviet Union

centralization of power

collapse of (1991)

ethnic minorities in

fondness for

promise of

symbolism of

space program

Spas (Salvation), television station

Spassky Tower

Specialized Solovetsky Camp (SLON)

split personality disorder

Sputnik satellite

Stalin

bust

crimes denounced

family

monuments

rehabilitation of

statues

Stalin Bunker

Stalinskie vysotki (Stalin’s high-rises)

standard of living

Stoleshnikov Lane

subways

Supreme Soviet, shelling of (1993)

Suvorov, Alexander

Sverdlov, Yakov

Sverdlovsk

Svetlogorsk

Syria

Syzran

Tatar-Mongolians

Technopark

Telen, Lyudmila

television

Tenka Trassa

Third Rome

Thon, Konstantin

ticket ladies

time zones

tin

Tion

Tobolsk

toilet paper

Tolstoy, Leo

Tolyatti

Tomsk

Torgsin stores

totalitarianism, glorified

tourism

tours

traders

traffic jams

train stations

train travel

trans-Russia journey

planning of

rarely done by Russians

Trans-Siberian Railroad

Traveler’s Coffee

Travnikov, Andrei

Treasury of Sakha

Treaty of Aigun (1858)

Tregubovich, Yury

Trubitsyn, Dmitry

truck drivers

Trump, Donald

Tugulov, Gennady

The Twelve Chairs (novel by Ilf and Petrov)

Tymoshenko, Yulia

Tyumen

Tyumen Oblast

UAZ four-wheel drive

Uda River

Ukraine

break with Russia (2014)

history

may join NATO

population

relations with Russia

rivalry with Russia

title to Crimea

westward-looking

Ukrainians

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Ulan-Ude

Ulyanov, Vladimir (Lenin). See also Lenin

Ulyanov family

Ulyanovsk

United Russia party (Yedinaya Rossiya)

United States

missile defense systems

presidential elections (2016)

University of Königsberg

Urals

uranium mining

urban renewal

Ust-Omchug

Ust-Tuskan camp

Vampilov, Alexander

vertikal vlasti (power vertical)

Veseliye Rusi piti est (drinking is the joy of Rus)

victory parades

Vinokurov, Nikolai

Vitus Bering

Vladimir’s Hill

Vladimir the Great, Prince

monument, in Moscow

statue of, in Kiev

Vladivostok

Fort Number Seven

volcanoes

Volga River and region

Vrubel, Mikhail

Vysotsky, Vladimir

wars

heroism in

memories of

West

fear of assault from

joining the

as model

relations with

westernization program (of Peter the Great)

Western lifestyle

West Siberian Plain

White Capital (Omsk)

Whites (1920s)

White Sea

White Sea–Baltic Canal

women

bias against

employed

World War II

memorial

parades honoring

Xi Jinping

Yakunin, Gleb

Yakuts. See Sakha

Yakutsk

Yanukovych, Viktor

Yaremenko, Bohdan

Yazykov, Nikolai

Yekaterinburg

Yeltsin, Boris

economic shock therapy

misrule of

promised democracy

resignation

Yeltsin Center

young people

Yudashkin, Valentin

Zabolev, Yury

Zhernakov, Vladimir

Zosima, Saint