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😯Russian superstitions are very diverse. I want you to compare some popular superstitions with yours. Please have a look: 👇🏻

1. To spill salt - to shed tears🧂

This is considered to be a bad sign, which cause quarrels and misfortunes. Salt in the old days was a very expensive product, so spilling it was equal to losing money. 🫢

2. If you whistle at home, you’ll miss the money💸

😗According to legends, whistling can attract evil spirits into the house, which can steal wealth. In addition, whistling can offend a brownie, who can leave the house, taking luck and well-being with him.

3. Clothes which you wear inside out is a bad sign. 👖

😦According to legends, clothing protects a person from evil forces. If you put it on inside out, it loses its power and the person becomes vulnerable to trouble.

4. If you sew on yourself, you will sew up your memory🪡

🧠According to legend, a needle can pierce a person’s memory, which can lead to its weakening or even complete disappearance.

5. If you step on the threshold, you’ll wake up your forefathers🤫

😯Passing through the threshold, a person leaves the house and enters another space where different rules apply. Therefore, it is important to be careful not to break these rules.

6. If a woman’s hair falls, the grass does not grow💇🏼‍♀️

According to the legend, hair is a source of human strength. Hair loss means loss of strength and vulnerability to trouble.🫣

Does it coincide with your superstitions or not?

Watermelons in Antarctica? 🍉

😯Russian scientists have grown real watermelons in the coldest place on our planet – at the Vostok Antarctic station. In 103 days, they managed to harvest eight watermelons!

👍🏻The plant was grown in a specially created phytocomplex, which was developed at the Agrophysical Institute. The plants were planted in April, hand pollinated in May and, in July, the first watermelons were tasted.

👏“The results of the experiment are impressive - we managed to grow the southernmost watermelons in the harshest conditions of Antarctica, in taste and aroma no worse than domestic ones! The size of the fruits reached up to 13 cm in diameter and their weight – up to 1 kg. Naturally, all polar explorers were happy to remember the taste of summer. Even the observation of sprouting seeds, their growth and appearance of fruits and their increase brought positive emotions,” shares Andrei Teplyakov, leading geophysicist of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.

🥒In the near future, the polar explorers expect a no less impressive harvest of cucumbers.

👩‍🔬The experiment takes place within the framework of the 68th Russian Antarctic expedition together with scientists of the Agrophysical Research Institute and the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

❄️‘Vostok’ is a year-round Russian station in Antarctica, which was founded in 1957. It is located almost in the very center of the continent, at a point that is dubbed “the cold pole of the planet”. In 1983, a record low temperature of -89.2°C was registered there. Even in summer, it rarely rises above -30°С.

How to bake “Kravets” - a hearty festive pie from Russia’s Republic of Mari El 
 
🥮Kravets pie is a culinary gem of the Republic of Mari El, which is located in the eastern part of the European Plain of Russia. Some say that this pie is an easy way to prepare tender meat in an edible pot.
 
Depending on the time of year, different fillings are used: lamb in summer, pork and beef in winter, and poultry in autumn. 🥧
 
🔺According to wedding tradition, the pie should be cut into seven equal parts by the groom's best man. But it’s not as easy as it looks.

Yuri Gagarin 👩‍🚀

🚀 62 years ago Yuri Gagarin flew around the Earth, becoming the first man in outer space.

🛰️From this date, the era of manned space travel began. Inside of the ‘Vostok-1’ spacecraft Gagarin started from the Baikonur cosmodrome and in 108 minutes he landed in a collective farm field in the Saratov region.

👨‍🚀🧑‍🚀Gagarin was one of several cosmonauts being considered for the flight. In the spring of 1960 the first group of space travelers enrolled 20 people.

‼️In summer, six of them were chosen: Yuri Gagarin, German Titov, Andriyan Nikolayev, Pavel Popovich, Grigory Nelyubov and Valery Bykovsky.

🚀Only a few days before the launch, the State Commission decided that it was Gagarin who would go into space.