Archive for October 2017
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Golden autumn in Kolomenskoye
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Entertainment, Travel
Kolomenskoye, a former royal residence located south of the center of Moscow and occupying an area of about 390 hectares, is an interesting art, historical, architectural, and natural museum-reserve.
The main exhibit of Kolomenskoye is a beautiful park with numerous buildings of different times – one of the most popular parks in Moscow. It looks especially picturesque during the golden autumn. Kolomenskoye on Google Maps. Photos by: Vladimir d’Ar.
stroll through the autumn park
Tags: Moscow city
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Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Entertainment, Science, Technology
The State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga (Akademika Koroleva Street, 2) is the world’s first and largest space museum in Russia, created with the direct participation of S.P. Korolev and Yu. A. Gagarin.
The museum has an extensive exposition telling about the history of aeronautics, aviation, rocket and space technology. Photos by: Sergey Rubtsov.
Tags: Kaluga city · museum
Vyborg is a large town located in the north-west of the Leningrad region on the shore of the Vyborg Gulf, in the north-eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, about 135 km from St. Petersburg.
Founded in the Middle Ages by Swedes, Vyborg is the only historical settlement on the territory of the Leningrad region. Until 1940, it was the second largest town in Finland. Photos by: Andrei Kireev.
Vyborg from the tower of the Vyborg Castle.
Tags: Leningrad oblast
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Northern Urals: Manpupuner Plateau and Dyatlov Pass
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Regions, Travel
The Northern Urals is one of the most hard-to-reach areas of the Urals, but it gradually becomes more popular among tourists primarily thanks to two main attractions: the rock formations on the Manpupuner Plateau and the Dyatlov Pass.
Both of these places are covered with legends. Although one of them was created by nature, and the second – by human tragedy that is still an unsolved mystery. Photos by: Slava Stepanov.
Tags: Komi Republic · Perm krai · Sverdlovsk oblast
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Church of the Assumption of Our Lady in Nelazskoye
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Regions, Travel
Nelazskoye is a small village with a population of about 200 people located in the Cherepovets district of the Vologda region, about 30 km north-west of Cherepovets.
The main attraction of the village is the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady – a wooden church of unique shape built in 1694. Nelazskoye on Google Maps. Photos by: Denis Spirin.
beautiful monument of wooden architecture
Tags: Cherepovets city · churches · Vologda oblast
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Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery in Dzerzhinsky
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Religion, Travel
Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery is a monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church located in the town of Dzerzhinsky in the Moscow region, to the southeast of Moscow in the immediate vicinity of the Moscow Ring Road.
The monastery was founded by the Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy on the site of the phenomenon of the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in 1380.
Tags: Moscow city · Moskovskaya oblast