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The launch of the 39th expedition to the ISS
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Science, Technology
Tomorrow, April 12, the world will mark the International Day of Human Space Flight, known as Cosmonautics Day in Russia.
About two weeks before that, March 26, 2014, Russian spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-12M” with two Russian cosmonauts (Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev) and one NASA astronaut (Steve Swanson) was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome to the International Space Station. Photos by Slava Stepanov
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Church of the Savior on Blood
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Religion, Travel
Church of the Savior on Blood in St. Petersburg was built in 1883-1907 to commemorate the fact that at this place, in 1881, as a result of the assassination, the Emperor Alexander II was mortally wounded. Height of the church is 81 meters.
It was built as a memorial to Alexander II of the money raised throughout Russia. This beautiful church, museum and architectural monument, is located in the historic center of St. Petersburg on the bank of the Griboyedov Canal near Mikhailovsky Garden. Photos by deletant
let’s go on a tour of the church
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Russian winter forest from a fairy tale
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos, Regions
Snow is almost gone in many Russian cities and soon nothing will remind of winter.
Goodbye winter frosts! Let’s enjoy these beautiful winter photos taken in the forest somewhere in Chelyabinsk region by marateaman
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Saint Petersburg – the land of cloud castles
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Travel
Beautiful photo of Saint Petersburg – one of the most picturesque cities of Russia – taken by Alexander Atoyan
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The Bridge to the Russky Island in Vladivostok
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos, Technology
Russky Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge to the Russky Island across the Eastern Bosphorus Strait in Vladivostok. Construction of the bridge began September 3, 2008. It was the part of the city’s preparations for the APEC summit in 2012.
This bridge has the world’s largest span of cable-stayed bridges, length 1104 meters. Photos by Sergey Orlov
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Beautiful photo of Tula – historic Russian city
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Photos
Tula is a historic Russian city first mentioned in 1146. It is located 170 km south of Moscow. Photo by Pavel Minaev
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Crystal clear ice of the frozen Baikal Lake
2 Comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos
Lake Baikal is the lake of tectonic origin located in the southern part of Eastern Siberia (Irkutsk oblast and Buryat Republic). It is the deepest lake on the planet, the largest natural fresh water reservoir. Photos by Petr Ushanov
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Impressive photo of Novotroitsk, Russian industrial city located in Orenburg oblast, taken by Kachurin Aleksey
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Architecture of Barnaul city
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Cities, Travel
Barnaul is the administrative center of Altai krai. This city, founded in 1730s, is located in the south of Western Siberia at the confluence of the Barnaulka and the Ob rivers.
Barnaul has a number of cultural and historical treasures, architectural monuments of the 18th-20th centuries. Originally, the town was built on the model of St. Petersburg, which determined the present appearance of the central part of the city. Photos by Stepanov Slava
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oligarch, the first and the world’s most famous political prisoner of the new Russia released just before the Olympics, arrived in Kyiv.
He will read his lecture “Human rights and freedoms” in the Polytechnic Institute. Shortly after arriving in the Ukrainian capital, he walked around the Maidan.
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