Wrangel Island is Russian island located in Arctic Ocean between East-Siberian and Chukotskoye Seas (Chukotka autonomous okrug). The island is the part of Wrangel natural reserve and has the status of UNESCO World Heritage from 2004. Unfortunately like a lot of other territories of Russian Arctic the region was used as Soviet military outpost and here is the result. The photos were captured by Gorshkov Sergey.

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The city of Anadyr is the capital of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russian Federation. Today with the help of ex-governor of Chukotka region Roman Abramovich the city became a quite modern and adjusted to living place. The houses of Anadyr painted pink, yellow and blue are impressive especially on the gray background of Chukotka region tundra.

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Chukotka (also spelled Chukotsky) autonomous okrug (region) is located on Russian Far East and borders on the USA by sea.

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