Atlasov Island, located 70 km south of Kamchatka, is the northernmost island of the Kuril Islands of Sakhalin Oblast. It is the surface portion of the Alaid volcano, whose eruptions led to the formation of the highest island in Russia and the 50th highest in the world.

The island is nearly round, with a diameter in the range of 13-17 km. The volcano is located exactly in the center, and the cone rises to over 2,300 meters. Rain clouds form lower down, so the summit is often hidden by clouds. Atlasov Island on Google Maps. Photos by: Slava Stepanov.

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Tags: Sakhalin oblast · Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city

“Malye Korely” is an open-air museum-reserve of traditional Russian wooden buildings of Arkhangelsk Oblast located in a forested area near the village of Malye Karely in the Primorsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, 25 km south of central Arkhangelsk, near the right bank of the Northern Dvina River.

This museum covering an area of ​​139.8 hectares is a popular tourist destination in the region. It is one of the largest landscape exhibitions in Russia.

snow covered wooden architecture

Tags: Arkhangelsk oblast · museum

The monument to Vladimir Lenin on the grounds of the October Railway depot, known simply as “Lenin on Wheels,” is located near Leningradsky Station in Moscow (Komsomol’skaya Square, 3/36).

Mounted on a railway bogie, it is one of the first monuments to Lenin in Moscow and the only monument to Lenin on wheels in the world. Lenin on Wheels on Google Maps. Photos by: babs71.

very unusual and cool monument

Tags: Moscow city · Soviet past