Wow such an extreme culture difference from nigeria to russia! I bet that was a fun experience!
So you've made it to Steemit! Welcome! Some things I've noticed people don't mention too often that could have helped me early on in my Steemit adventures are:

1. https://Steemworld.org/@goldcharminator
   -a (nearly) complete interactive page that gives you a better overall experience and overview of what is really happening on your steem page.
   -steemstats is not that good
   -steemviz is a good pending payout site(does not include curation but has total pending payout including comment payouts)
   

1. Steemengine.net

• steemengine the followers gained is unreal. I gained 100 just in the past two days. If you want you can use my referal link not required though...

https://steemengine.net/join?r=633

3)Steemit School
-with Hive account@dobartim and Hive account@flysky.

https://discord.gg/q9VEn5n is their discord.
They have a live voice channel there too.
Be sure to go to the introduction section of the discord channel and introduce yourself on their discord by following this order
i. Name
ii. Nationality
iii. Birth date
iv. Specialty
v. Who invited you on here. (Hive account@dynamicgreentk)
vi. Steemit account link

A very informative and supportive group of people for minnows. Its fairly new but it provides great basic support and tips there not to mention lots of contests and giveaways and love!

https://steemit.com/steemitschool/@dobartim/how-do-i-make-the-first-steps-and-great-success-on-steemit-welcome-to-our-steemit-school

1. if your going to buy upvotes for post promotion try and follow grumpy cat and his rules...
   

   
   -https://steemit.com/grumpycat/@mikel2la1/grumpy-cat-making-a-difference

2. check out Hive account@kennyskitchen and his introduceyourself post tips it is extremely helpful and informative!

https://steemit.com/steemit/@kennyskitchen/2k8asu0f

The memes create here were done on the www.decentmemes.com website!
I have been having fun using www.decentmemes.com. it's a smaller version of the bigger guys meme site. I have received a lot of organic upvotes large and small from this site. I invite you to try and make some memes! It connects via steemconnect to your steemit account. You make your memes there and then it posts to your page

These are some uncommon things I wish I was made aware of early on when I first joined! I wish you the best and much success here helping us all grow this amazing platform!