Archive for March 2014
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St. Petersburg from bird’s-eye view
No comments · Posted by Alex Smirnov in Cities, Travel, Video
Beautiful video of cultural capital of Russia, Saint Petersburg, shot from a height.
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Saint Petersburg – the land of cloud castles
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Travel
Beautiful photo of Saint Petersburg – one of the most picturesque cities of Russia – taken by Alexander Atoyan
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The Bridge to the Russky Island in Vladivostok
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos, Technology
Russky Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge to the Russky Island across the Eastern Bosphorus Strait in Vladivostok. Construction of the bridge began September 3, 2008. It was the part of the city’s preparations for the APEC summit in 2012.
This bridge has the world’s largest span of cable-stayed bridges, length 1104 meters. Photos by Sergey Orlov
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Beautiful photo of Tula – historic Russian city
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Photos
Tula is a historic Russian city first mentioned in 1146. It is located 170 km south of Moscow. Photo by Pavel Minaev
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Crystal clear ice of the frozen Baikal Lake
2 Comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos
Lake Baikal is the lake of tectonic origin located in the southern part of Eastern Siberia (Irkutsk oblast and Buryat Republic). It is the deepest lake on the planet, the largest natural fresh water reservoir. Photos by Petr Ushanov
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Impressive photo of Novotroitsk, Russian industrial city located in Orenburg oblast, taken by Kachurin Aleksey
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It is a perfect example of political satire on the latest events in Russia and Ukraine by zhgun
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Architecture of Barnaul city
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Cities, Travel
Barnaul is the administrative center of Altai krai. This city, founded in 1730s, is located in the south of Western Siberia at the confluence of the Barnaulka and the Ob rivers.
Barnaul has a number of cultural and historical treasures, architectural monuments of the 18th-20th centuries. Originally, the town was built on the model of St. Petersburg, which determined the present appearance of the central part of the city. Photos by Stepanov Slava
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oligarch, the first and the world’s most famous political prisoner of the new Russia released just before the Olympics, arrived in Kyiv.
He will read his lecture “Human rights and freedoms” in the Polytechnic Institute. Shortly after arriving in the Ukrainian capital, he walked around the Maidan.
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It is much better to make cool snow tanks than drive real ones on foreign territory
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