Naryan-Mar city is the capital of Nenets Autonomous Okrug located behind the Arctic Circle (permafrost zone, polar night during December and January). The city is the main base of exploring Timano-Pechorskaya gas and oil province. The following photos were captured by Russian photo blogger Frederick Taer during his journey to Naryan-Mar.

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Russian roads are dangerous not only because of the low quality but also because of numerous Russian drivers that regularly ignore the rules and sometimes even the direct commands of Russian traffic cops.

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If you are going fishing or hunting in Russia, or just have a forest or lake trip you should think twice about the vehicle to use. The reason is on the following video.

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Another problem of Russia, sometimes called the greatest, low quality and quantity of modern roads and highways. Here is the video of an accident happened on typical narrow Russian road between regions capitals (the one on the video is Ryazan oblast road).

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There is such an opinion that Russia has mostly not the roads but directions. So Russians when going fishing or hunting prefer to drive machines like on the following video from Tuva republic.

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Russia is a country of surprises. Just look at the following country road. It is covered by AK-74 (the modernized version of famous AK-47) empty magazines!

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