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Hundreds of blogs and websites are opened and closed in Russia every day, most of which are for educational purposes. But really informative and interesting, and most importantly useful resources only a few become.

The portal site offers a selection of the 10 most popular, interesting and informative sites in Russia, to which millions of readers in the country are hooked. What criteria were used to choose:

  • quality content
  • no advertising (or reduced to a minimum)
  • convenience and simplicity of the site
  • design
  • layout
  • uniqueness

Adme is a site about life, freedom and creativity.

The project has existed for more than 10 years and over the years has gained incredible popularity. The secret to the success of the project is simple - unique educational content every day. The absence of politics, angry news feeds and intrusive advertising, an abundance of light humor, useful posts about the life and work of great people, and a lot of things and everything that makes a person happy, kind, smiling... In general, created by people and for people.

Lifehacker is no less successful and useful project than “adme”, with a whole army of admirers and fans in Russia. From a popular blog dispensing advice, the life hacker has grown into a successful project with more than 6 million readers per month.

The secret to success is the relevance of the content. Simply put, for example, the article “How to download videos from Youtube” was published in 2012, and has still not lost its relevance. Every month, more than 70,000 users on the Internet ask the question “how can I download a video from YouTube?” and in the search engines of Yandex and Google, an article by Lifehacker appears for this request. The result is that it has received 1.7 million views since 2012!

The main directions are articles about health and sports, how to use gadgets, websites and new technologies and much more... A very useful resource in Russia.

The first association most users have, I’m sure, is physical education teacher Foma, played by Dmitry Nagiyev. However, the Thomas website is a successful Orthodox magazine for doubters. The magazine is entirely dedicated to the Orthodox faith and the Church.

Lots of useful material in a cool format. Convenient layout and ease of navigation of the site, as well as high-quality, easy-to-read material, sets the resource apart from most other religious portals. There is an opinion that industry and highly specialized sites are doomed to failure, but in Orthodox Russia “Thomas” is just gaining its popularity, because the number of believers in Russia has increased in recent years (based on statistical data).

One of the most popular sites in Russia, the main topic of which is psychology in all its manifestations.

Like most glossy magazines, Psychologies plunges headlong into online and in a few years turns into a major international project. Originally from France, the project is quickly gaining popularity in Europe and already in 2005 it begins to be published in Russia. The site's online audience numbers in the millions. Feelings, interests, desires and thoughts, relationships with yourself and other people, the experience of contemporaries and the expert opinion of the best psychologists and psychotherapists; new sources of joy and energy, opportunities to realize yourself and change for the better, ways to take care of your health and beauty with pleasure - all these are the topics of Psychologies.ru.

A non-profit educational project dedicated to humanitarian knowledge eventually grew into an online university, with real courses and lectures. A distinctive feature from all other projects is that all courses and lectures are absolutely free. The main topics of the site are history, literature, art, anthropology, philosophy. Arzamas consists entirely of courses, each of which is dedicated to a specific topic. A new course is published every two weeks on Thursdays. Each course consists of several 15-minute video lectures (episodes), as well as various materials - articles, photo galleries, maps, dictionaries, tests, games, etc. Thanks to the successful layout of the site, cool content and the absence of intrusive advertising, Arzamas magazine quickly became a in the ranking of the most popular educational resources in Russia.

It is noteworthy that Arzamas, as a literary society, as a circle, was first opened in 1815, and the members of “Arzamas” were such famous people as V. A. Zhukovsky, P. A. Vyazemsky, A. A. Pleshcheev, A. S. . Pushkin...

Naked Science (translated from English as “From the point of view of science”) is a Russian popular science magazine published since 2013 in Russian. Main topics: science, aviation, new technologies, future technologies, space, cars, photography, psychology. The main task of the popular science Internet portal is to popularize science.

Thanks to successful layout and design, the site quickly surpassed all its competitors. And the approach to presenting materials - “to talk about complex things in an accessible, simple and understandable way” became the unspoken motto of the project. Be sure to visit the video section of the site - there are a lot of educational video materials.

vc.ru is a magazine about internet business, startups, innovation and online marketing. Today it is the largest platform for entrepreneurs in RuNet. The site daily covers business news, expresses expert opinions, publishes reviews and analytics...

Like all previous portals, it differs from most of its competitors in its convenient layout and simple design, which makes the resource very attractive compared to all the others. In my opinion, it is one of the most “strong” and powerful cognitive resources for entrepreneurs and startups.

The Village is on this list for a reason. A useful and educational portal with a really cool design and high-quality content, as an example for everyone - “how to do successful projects.” The portal is dedicated to the life of Russian megacities, talks about cultural and social life, entertainment, services, food and people in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other megacities. On the pages of The Village, interviews with officials harmoniously coexist with reviews of cafes or bars. The project also has “two little brothers” - a magazine for young, energetic and free-thinking women, Wonderzine, and a youth magazine, FURFUR. Definitely, these are sites worth visiting.

Another interesting resource that I periodically hang out on. Newtonew is an educational magazine about education. It will be useful and interesting for schoolchildren and students, teachers, parents and all those who love and want to engage in self-education. The project, as an educational resource, has suspiciously many advantages - high-quality and interesting material, convenient layout and cool design, lack of advertising and “imposed opinions dictated from above.” The combination of all of the above, as a somewhat meticulous person, makes me think about what the project lives and thrives on, and where the source of funding comes from. I would like to believe that the project is independent. Among the conveniences, I would like to highlight the section of the site - “Thematic Collections” - it is very convenient. Again, I repeat, a clear example of the fact that the project was made by people and for people. High five to the authors of the project!

- All about sports and a healthy lifestyle -

Today, healthy lifestyles and sports are talked about everywhere. One of the most powerful sources of encyclopedic knowledge on the Internet is the well-known knowledge laboratory SPORTSWIKI. Thousands of interesting, useful materials are collected here. There is no need to talk about the design of the site, but the exclusivity of the sports encyclopedia lies elsewhere...

MEN’S HEALTH – I used to read it regularly, now less often, but as an educational magazine with a range and arsenal of “useful things”, I can’t help but recommend it. MEN’S HEALTH is more of a men’s portal. Main topics: men's health and fitness; workouts, exercises and fitness encyclopedia; sex and relationship psychology; proper nutrition and disease prevention; food and recipes... Excellent layout and design, thousands of useful materials.

I also want to highlight several useful educational video blogs. All of them are time-tested, the authors of which do not talk nonsense, they are well versed in the anatomical processes of the body, nutrition, metabolism...

Unfortunately, today there are a lot of sports-related videos appearing on YouTube that do more harm than good. Sometimes it’s scary to listen to the nonsense of their creators, because these people give out advice with all their might, teach and encourage you to follow their methodology. And we are talking about the human body, a body that can be very easily injured thanks to the advice of certain pseudo-certified coaches. This delicate and sensitive topic can only be discussed by people specializing in certain sports fields. There are very few of them, as I have discovered over the years.

So, video blogs dedicated to sports and a healthy lifestyle that I would recommend without a shadow of a doubt.

Russian TV presenter, author of the best-selling sports books “Fitness is Easy!” and “Fitness. Life Guide Denis Semenikhin is a guru in the world of fitness and healthy lifestyle. The most visited sports video blog in Russia, and most importantly, one of the most informative.

Sergei Badyuk’s video blog is no less informative. A very authoritative and wise guy. Reasons sensibly, speaks convincingly and to the point. Interviews with Badyuk are always interesting and informative. Area of ​​interest: hand-to-hand sports, boxing, iron, yoga, powerlifting, workout, qigong...

One of the most educational channels about martial arts, martial arts, self-defense... Release formats include sharp interviews with masters of various martial arts, useful and fun video lessons... A lot of educational material. Issues are published twice a week.

More than a million subscribers, informative video content, but before I liked the channel more. Nevertheless, there is a lot of useful material - I also recommend it.

One of the most educational and interesting boxing channels in Russia. A sense of humor, combined with professional advice and master classes from Alik Bigaev, made the channel bright and rich, and most importantly, useful. The trick of the channel is the length of the videos. They are all short and informative. The presentation of the material is easy and accessible. These are not just videos about boxing - this is a small show. A special character on the channel - Alexander Yuryevich - is another feature of the channel. I recommend to everyone.

Yoga Journal is Russia's leading website about yoga and a healthy lifestyle. The portal provides readers with access to thousands of articles about yoga, philosophy, health and nutrition, yoga complexes, meditations, video lessons, interviews with famous masters... News is published daily on the site, from which you can learn all the latest from the world of yoga.

From video channels on yoga I can highlight: Unagrande YogaClub And daYoga.ru- professional, high quality, accessible and very informative.

Newborns typically have about 270 bones, most of which are very small. This makes the skeleton more flexible and helps the baby pass through the birth canal and grow quickly. As we grow older, many of these bones fuse together. The adult human skeleton consists on average of 200–213 bones.

2. The Eiffel Tower grows 15 centimeters in summer

The huge structure is built with temperature expansion joints, allowing the steel to expand and contract without any damage.

When steel heats up, it begins to expand and takes up more volume. This is called thermal expansion. Conversely, a drop in temperature leads to a decrease in volume. For this reason, large structures, such as bridges, are built with expansion joints that allow them to change in size without damage.

3. 20% of oxygen comes from the Amazon rainforest

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The Amazon rainforest covers 5.5 million square kilometers. The Amazon jungle produces a significant portion of the oxygen on Earth, absorbing huge amounts of carbon dioxide, which is why it is often called the lungs of the planet.

4. Some metals are so reactive that they explode even when in contact with water.

Some metals and compounds - potassium, sodium, lithium, rubidium and cesium - exhibit increased chemical activity, so they can ignite with lightning speed when in contact with air, and if they are placed in water, they can even explode.

5. A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons.

Neutron stars are the remains of massive stars, consisting mainly of a neutron core covered with a relatively thin (about 1 km) crust of matter in the form of heavy atomic nuclei and electrons. The cores of stars that died during a supernova explosion were compressed under the influence of gravity. This is how super-dense neutron stars were formed. Astronomers have found that the mass of neutron stars can be comparable to the mass of the Sun, although their radius does not exceed 10–20 kilometers.

6. Every year, Hawaii gets 7.5 cm closer to Alaska.

The earth's crust consists of several huge parts - tectonic plates. These plates are constantly moving along with the upper layer of the mantle. Hawaii is located in the middle part of the Pacific Plate, which is slowly drifting northwest toward the North American Plate, on which Alaska is located. Tectonic plates move at the same speed as human fingernails grow.

7. In 2.3 billion years, Earth will be too hot to support life.

Our planet will eventually become an endless desert, similar to today's Mars. Over hundreds of millions of years, the Sun has warmed up, become brighter and hotter, and will continue to do so. In more than two billion years, temperatures will be so high that the oceans that make Earth habitable will evaporate. The entire planet will turn into an endless desert. As scientists predict, in the next few billion years the Sun will turn into a red giant and completely engulf the Earth - the planet will definitely come to an end.


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Thermal imagers are able to identify an object by the heat it emits. And polar bears are experts at staying warm. Thanks to a thick layer of subcutaneous fat and a warm fur coat, bears are able to withstand even the coldest days in the Arctic.

9. Light will take 8 minutes 19 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth

It is known that the speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second. But even at such breakneck speed, it will take time to cover the distance between the Sun and Earth. And 8 minutes is not so much on a cosmic scale. It takes sunlight 5.5 hours to reach Pluto.

10. If you remove all the interatomic space, humanity will fit in a sugar cube

In fact, more than 99.9999% of an atom is empty space. An atom consists of a tiny, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of electrons, which occupy proportionately more space. This is because electrons move in waves. They can only exist where the crests and troughs of the waves are formed in a certain way. Electrons do not remain at one point; their location can be anywhere within the orbit. And therefore they take up a lot of space.

11. Stomach juice can dissolve razor blades

The stomach digests food thanks to caustic hydrochloric acid with a high pH (hydrogen index) - from two to three. But at the same time, the acid also affects the gastric mucosa, which, however, can quickly recover. The lining of your stomach is completely renewed every four days.

Scientists have many versions of why this happens. The most likely: due to huge asteroids that influenced its course in the past, or due to strong circulation of air currents in the upper atmosphere.

13. A flea can accelerate faster than the space shuttle

Flea jumps reach mind-boggling heights - 8 centimeters per millisecond. Each jump gives the flea an acceleration 50 times greater than the acceleration of the spacecraft.

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We offer interesting and incredible facts, the most interesting things in the world that you couldn’t even think of, funny, surprising, interesting, educational and incredibly cool - read!

*** According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide is punishable by death. The offender can be hanged for attempting suicide.

*** It turns out that riding donkeys is more dangerous than flying airplanes - more and more people in the world die every year while riding donkeys than die in plane crashes.

*** A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

*** A cockroach can live for several weeks with its head cut off.

*** One company in Taiwan makes tableware out of wheat, so you can eat the plate itself.

*** An instant is an actual unit of time of 1/100th of a second.

*** A woman in Saudi Arabia can get a divorce if her husband does not serve her coffee.

*** The shark is the only fish that can blink both eyes.

*** Children are born without kneecaps - they do not appear until the child is 2-6 years old.

*** Bats always turn left when flying out of a cave.

*** Bird droppings are the main export of the state of Nauru - this island state is located in the western part of the Pacific Ocean.

***Cats can produce over a hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can produce about ten.

*** Did you know that - peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.

*** Incredible, but true - the first cologne in history appeared as a means of preventing the plague.

*** Wow - Every second, 1% of the Earth's population is dead drunk.

*** For beard lovers, a person’s beard consists of 7-15 thousand hairs. And the beard grows at a speed of 14 centimeters per year. site/node/2767

*** It turns out that the ant has the largest brain of all living creatures. Naturally in relation to his body.

*** Note (just kidding) - to commit suicide with coffee, you need to drink 100 cups in a row.

*** Can't be! - Hans Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word correctly.

*** Monday is a hard day! - There are 25% more back injuries and 33% more heart attacks on Mondays.

*** Interesting fact - every day an average of 33 new products appear in the world. 13 of them are toys.

*** The average city dweller spends two weeks in his entire life waiting for the traffic light to change.

*** Power of habit - a person gets used to tea faster than to heroin.

*** And earlier than? - toilet paper was invented in 1857.

*** We would like their problems! - every day Americans throw away 20 thousand televisions, 150 thousand tons of packaging materials and 43 thousand tons of food.

*** Let's quit smoking! - Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is equivalent to drinking a coffee cup of nicotine every year.

*** We adopt experience - the ancient Egyptians used eye shadow to protect themselves from conjunctivitis and trachoma.

*** They are compacted - the body of a sleeping person is half a centimeter longer than that of a waking person.

*** If you're afraid of mosquitoes, don't eat bananas - mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of people who recently ate bananas.

*** A coward does not play hockey - a hockey puck can reach a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.

*** The Neanderthal brain was larger than that of modern humans.

*** We could use their toilets - some public toilets in Singapore have video karaoke machines.

*** It turns out that yaks have pink milk.

*** The Saginaw River in the US state of Michigan is the shortest river in the world

*** Well, who would doubt it! - the average ATM makes a mistake of 250 dollars per year and, of course, that is not in its favor.

*** And the blondes say - Christopher Columbus was blonde.

*** It’s unbelievable that a penguin can jump three meters in height.

*** Do you know that if 111.111.111 is multiplied by 111.111.111, you get the incredible 12345678987654321.

*** About visionary people - In 1863, Jules Verne wrote the book “Paris in the 20th Century,” in which he described in detail the automobile, the fax machine and the electric chair. The publisher returned the manuscript to him, calling him an idiot.

*** The largest financial turnover in the world comes from the sale of gasoline. In second place is the sale of coffee.

*** We don’t need such laws - In South Korea, marriages between namesakes are prohibited.

*** That's what we thought! - The English nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" is actually dedicated to King Richard III, who actually fell from the wall during the battle of 1485.

*** What a load! - a person’s ribs make 5 million movements per year.

*** The only insect on earth that can turn its head is the Praying Mantis.

*** It’s still not worth stealing - only 1 theft out of 7 is solved in the world.

*** Antifreeze is brake fluid and more - Some types of toothpaste contain antifreeze.

*** Soap is made from bones - if you put a person on the soap, he will get about 7 bars of soap.

*** What to do? - There is no word in any language in the world for the reverse side of the knee.

*** You know that the Sun is a star, but only 55% of Americans know about this fact

*** Don't stick out your tongue - when a gorilla gets angry, it sticks out its tongue.

*** Is a limousine not a luxury? - Hong Kong has the most Rolls-Royce limousines per capita.

*** Scissors - it turns out they were invented by Leonardo da Vinci.

*** We use the achievements of our ancestors! - Over the past 4 thousand years, humans have not domesticated a single new species of animal.

*** What does he do then? - the speaker of the English House of Lords is prohibited from speaking during meetings.

*** We would like two stomachs - a bee has two stomachs, one collects honey, the other for food.

*** Almost 3000 earthquakes per day - Every minute there are 2 earthquakes in the world.

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*** In just one minute, our Sun produces more energy than the entire planet Earth uses in an entire year. Moreover, the earth does not consume all the energy that comes from the Sun. The solar energy that reaches us is distributed as follows: 19% of solar energy is absorbed by the atmosphere, approximately 47% reaches the earth, and 34 percent returns back to space.

*** Iron that can be heated to 5000 degrees Celsius will turn into a gaseous state.

*** The earth is growing! - It turns out that over the past 500 years, due to cosmic matter, the mass of our planet has increased by a billion tons

*** Granite conducts sound ten times better than air. If there was a solid granite wall between us and the sound source, we would hear the sound 1 km away, whereas in the air at a distance of only 100 meters.

*** Someone has calculated that over all the times of gold mining, about 200 thousand tons were extracted from the bowels of the earth. If you cast all this mass into a cube, it would be larger than an eight-story building.

*** 17,280,000 lightning - every second over 200 lightning flashes on Earth.

*** PP three people per second! - According to the UN, 250,000 children are born on earth every day.

*** What if? - If the Earth rotated in the opposite direction, then the length of the year would be shorter by 2 days.

*** This is power! - The energy emitted by an area of ​​the sun just the size of our little finger is equal to the energy emitted by two million wax candles.

*** Neutron stars - The weight of one spoonful of the substance that neutron stars are made of is 150 million tons - that’s the density! site/node/2767

*** A space satellite located in low-Earth orbit can photograph up to 3 million square kilometers of the earth’s surface in just half an hour. From a conventional airplane, this comparable area can be photographed in 12 years, and by hand in no less than 180 years.

*** Learn from bedbugs! - An adult bed bug can live without food for about a year.

*** The record without sleep is 264 hours 12 minutes. It was installed by seventeen-year-old Randy Gardner in 1964, after such wakefulness he slept for 15 hours.

*** Amazing how is this? - Dolphins and whales can swim and even cover long distances in their sleep. This happens because their brain hemispheres sleep in turns, and not simultaneously, like in humans.

*** Dreams are like life - Six years is the average total time of dreams viewed by a person in his entire life.

*** There is also such a problem - there is a disease in which a person is afraid to sleep, although it is quite rare, this disease is called Somniphobia.

*** Garfish actually have green bones.

*** Anyone with a rectangular pupil is an octopus.

*** It turns out that a horse has 18 more bones than a person.

*** Huge Heart - Giraffes have the largest heart and the highest blood pressure of all land animals.

*** Show me your tongue - giraffes have a completely black tongue, the length of which can reach up to 45 centimeters.

*** The heart of a whale beats only 9 times per minute.

*** How can this be? - the blood temperature of fish in Antarctica can reach -1.7 degrees Celsius.

*** The world's population of chickens is approximately equal to the number of people.

*** When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

*** A person blinks more than 20 million times a year.

*** A person is born with 300 bones, but when he becomes an adult, he only has 206.

*** The average person laughs 15 times a day.

*** For a duel! - in Paraguay, duels are allowed if the duelists are registered blood donors.

*** A man eats food equal to the weight of six elephants in his life!

*** The number of chickens in the world is approximately equal to the number of people.

*** When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

*** A person blinks more than 20 million times a year.

*** A person is born with 300 bones, but when he becomes an adult, he only has 206.

*** The average person laughs 15 times a day.

*** The weight of all ants on planet Earth is approximately equal to the weight of all the people inhabiting it.

*** Bon appetite! - Bugs taste like apples, wasps taste like pine nuts, and worms taste like fried bacon.

*** Every year in the world, more than 30,000 people inflict various injuries on themselves, trying new sexual positions.

*** And they tell us! - American President George Washington grew marijuana in his garden!

*** The only animals in the world that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.

*** We don't need this! - it turns out that if the statue of a horse rider has both front legs raised, this means that the person died in battle. If a horse has only one leg raised, it means the person died from wounds received in battle. If a horse has all 4 legs on the ground, then the person died a natural death!

*** Wow, we got the hang of it! - The Spanish Inquisition once sentenced an entire country to death for heresy - this country was the Netherlands.

*** It would seem that! - every year more people in the world die from bee stings than from snake bites.

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