I've found it in my kitchen. It seems to be that he flew through the window from the street.
The country is Russia.
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$\begingroup$ What size was this specimen? $\endgroup$– theforestecologist ♦Apr 2, 2019 at 20:22
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This is Mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, a species of darkling beetle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mealworm
Thank you @terdon for help!
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I am not an entomologist, I just happen to have worked on the genome of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum and this looks very similar. A quick wikipedia search turned up the amusingly named "confused flour beetle", Tribolium confusa, which looks almost exactly like what you have photographed:
So, I would guess (I stress that I don't really know) that this is some sort of Tribolium species and, by now, is thoroughly confused even if it was not to begin with.
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1$\begingroup$ Thank you very much for the answer. I've just read about this on Wikipedia and found that this is a Mealworm — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mealworm — a bigger version of a Tribolium. $\endgroup$ May 27, 2013 at 4:57
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1$\begingroup$ @SunnyRebornPony well done! Could you please post that as an answer and accept it? The species name is mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, mealworms are the larval (apparently edible!) stage. $\endgroup$– terdonMay 27, 2013 at 14:04