How can I trace back my family in Russia?

My grandmother came from there and we have no addresses or contacts at all..... just her family name and family member's names to work from.

OK my friend is from Teheran, Iran. She speaks Farsi, Arabic, Spanish, Ordu(?) , and German, and she was trying to explain this to me at a party but I didn't quite get it. I think She said (except African & Native Americans, Arabians) that most of...

i can trace my family back to my great grandfather joseph, from Janoshpola, Russia. i did a google search and a wikipedia search and i can't find this city ANYWHERE. does anyone know if the name got changed after world war II or if there is an alternate...

Does this sreet exist in sernur russia,I can't seem to trace it

i know Russia is geographically Eastern, but is it culturally Western? there are some nations in the world wherein they are eastern when it comes to location but western when it comes to culture. such as Australia. Ethnic Russians are slavic not turkic...

As Ukraine's political crisis poisons Russia's relationship with the West, Moscow is increasingly talking of China as a possible replacement for the European Union as Russia's key economic ally. Such a pivot would mean Russia exchanging a partnership...