The new year is getting closer and summing up this year, I would like to share with you the following list of Top 7 posts published in our blog in 2012. They can’t compete with a number of our top posts about Soviet propaganda published earlier but are still worth seeing.

#1. In 2003, the United Nations called Grozny city the most destroyed city on the planet. It was the result of two Chechen wars. And here is Grozny city now.

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The year of 2011 is coming to an end and we are wishing you Happy New Year and great holidays!

Let’s look back at the posts of our blog that were of the greatest interest in 2011 (ranked by the number of pageviews).

1. Soviet space exploration program was definitely the most popular theme in 2011. It was the year of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into outer space. Propaganda posters of Soviet space program created in 1958-1963 still inspire and call people to explore the Universe.

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Pyatigorsk (“five mountains city”) is the oldest balneological and mud resort of Russia and the largest city, as well as industrial, commercial, scientific, cultural and tourist center of eco-resort region Caucasian Mineral Waters. The city is the center of North Caucasus Federal District.

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Podolsk is one of the largest industrial centers in Moscow region. There are over a dozen of large industrial plants on the territory of the city.

Besides, Podolsk is one of the centers of high-tech science: there are a lot of scientific institutions which are linked mainly with nuclear engineering and nuclear research.

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Obninsk is the first “naukograd” (scientific city) of Russia located in Kaluga oblast about 100 km from Moscow. It is the place where first nuclear power station in the world was constructed in 1954.

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Norilsk is a city located above the Arctic Circle in the north of Krasnoyarsk krai, in the southern part of Taymyr peninsula, about 90 km to the east of Yenisei River. It is one of the most polluted cities in the world. Norilsk has one of the largest in the world both mining and metal-producing group of enterprises.

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Novorossiysk is the largest Russian port on the Black Sea, main economic and transport center of Krasnodar krai and the South of Russia.

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Nizhnevartovsk is the administrative center of Nizhnevartovsky district of Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug. It is the second largest city of the region. The largest oil deposit in Russia – Samotlorskoye is located in Nizhnevartovsky district. That is why Nizhnevartovsk is called the oil capital of Russia.

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Nefteyugansk is one of the main centers of Russian oil industry, every 7th ton of all Russian oil is extracted in Nefteyugansky district.

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Elets is a historical city of Russia having more than 200 cultural and architectural monuments. The whole architectural design of the city is its main value.

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