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In Russian culture the color red plays a significant role since days of Old Russia. It is so significant in the Russian folk culture and history that in ancient Russian language the words for beautiful and red (Russian: Красный, Krasny) were completely identical. But even in the modern Russian language, the terms for red and beautiful ...
The term kalina describes the berry and krasnaya the color red. Viburnum opulus (kalina) is an important element of the Russian folk culture. [1] [2] Kalina derived in Russian language from kalit' or raskalyat', which means "to make red-hot". In Old Russian language the word for beautiful and red were completely identical.
The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*roocci), [2] supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...
Red Ruthenia, also called Red Rus ' or Red Russia, [a] [b] is a term used since the Middle Ages for the south-western principalities of Kievan Rus', namely the Principality of Peremyshl and the Principality of Belz. It is closely related to the term Cherven Cities ("Red Cities"). [c]
The first banner of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was introduced on 8 December 2000, later confirmed by Federation Council on 20 December and signed by Vladimir Putin on 29 December. It was a plain red field, it symbolized the traditional red color of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. 2003–
A red five-pointed star A New Year tree with a red star in front of a church cupola in Volokolamsk, Russia, 2010.. A red star, five-pointed and filled, is a symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with the hammer and sickle, but is also used as a purely socialist symbol in the 21st century.
Rufina Pukhova (1932–2021), Russian memoir writer; Rufina Ubah (born 1959), former Nigerian sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres; Rufina and Secunda (died 257), Roman virgin-martyrs and Christian saints; Rufina of Caesarea, 3rd-century Christian martyr; Saint Rufina, a 3rd-century Christian martyr
The red flag gained wide popularity in Russia during the Russian Revolutions of 1917, [19] having been used as a symbol of revolutionary struggle in both the February Revolution and October Revolution; red was the political color of socialists on several opposed sides in the revolutions, such as the Bolsheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. [20]