![TIL that the word for roller coasters in Spanish is "la montaña rusa" or Russian Mountain because the first roller coasters were located in Russia and made completely from ice. : r/todayilearned TIL that the word for roller coasters in Spanish is "la montaña rusa" or Russian Mountain because the first roller coasters were located in Russia and made completely from ice. : r/todayilearned](https://external-preview.redd.it/OyYdmPLAdfqvGNvWb1EXXPTehJmQXcw06IPYyP00vlk.jpg?auto=webp&s=4775dcb598728c9825719c0a5e4b767fda8c4611)
TIL that the word for roller coasters in Spanish is "la montaña rusa" or Russian Mountain because the first roller coasters were located in Russia and made completely from ice. : r/todayilearned
Ashmolean Museum - #AshmoleanAdvent Day 15: A Russian Ice Slide ❄️ Ice mountains, or slides - ancestors of the modern roller coaster - first appeared in Russia in the seventeenth century.
![Russian Roller Coaster Ride, People Rushing Down the Mountain on an Attraction Stock Footage - Video of outside, people: 57343998 Russian Roller Coaster Ride, People Rushing Down the Mountain on an Attraction Stock Footage - Video of outside, people: 57343998](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/russian-roller-coaster-ride-people-rushing-down-mountain-attraction-attractions-park-city-festival-their-57343998.jpg)
Russian Roller Coaster Ride, People Rushing Down the Mountain on an Attraction Stock Footage - Video of outside, people: 57343998
![Fashionable couple at the Russian Mountains rollercoaster, Les Montagnes Russes a Belleville, built in 1812. (The first switchback, Year VII, 1799). Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Fashionable couple at the Russian Mountains rollercoaster, Les Montagnes Russes a Belleville, built in 1812. (The first switchback, Year VII, 1799). Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Courboin from](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2BT5B86/fashionable-couple-at-the-russian-mountains-rollercoaster-les-montagnes-russes-a-belleville-built-in-1812-the-first-switchback-year-vii-1799-handcoloured-lithograph-by-rv-after-an-illustration-by-francois-courboin-from-octave-uzannes-fashion-in-paris-william-heinemann-london-1898-2BT5B86.jpg)