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Life of the Nenets Reindeer Herders in the Russian North
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in People, Photos, Regions
Of the indigenous peoples of the Russian North, the Nenets are the most numerous. According to the 2010 census, the total number of the Nenets people living in Russia was 44,640, of which 29,772 were living in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, part of the Tyumen region.
Let’s look at some scenes from their life in winter, when the temperature ranges from minus 20 to minus 40 degrees Celsius. Photos by: Petr Ushanov.
Tags: Tyumen oblast · Yamalo-Nenets okrug
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White Tower in Alexandrovsky Park
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Photos, Travel
Alexandrovsky Park is a park in the State Museum-Reserve “Tsarskoe Selo” located in the city of Pushkin in St. Petersburg, an architectural monument of the 18th-19th centuries.
One of the attractions of the park is the so-called “White Tower” – a pavilion built in the style of a medieval knight castle. Photos by: Dmitriy Gazin.
Tags: Saint Petersburg city
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Stalin’s Soviet Union – Moscow in 1953-1954. Part 2
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, People, Photos
The second part of unique photos taken by Major Martin Manhoff, who spent more than two years in the Soviet Union in the early 1950s as an assistant to the military attache in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
View of the Kremlin from Moskvoretskaya Embankment.
Tags: Moscow city · Soviet past
Yakutsk is the capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the third city of the Far Eastern Federal District in terms of population (after Vladivostok and Khabarovsk) and the largest city in the world located in the permafrost zone.
Because of the severe climate, Yakutsk is often called one of the “coldest” cities on Earth. Photos by: Slava Stepanov.
Tags: Sakha Republic · Yakutsk city
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Stalin’s Soviet Union – Moscow in 1953-1954
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, People, Photos
Major Martin Manhoff spent more than two years in the Soviet Union in the early 1950s. He worked as an assistant to the military attache in the U.S. Embassy, located near Red Square.
Manhoff, being a gifted photographer, shot hundreds of scenes from everyday Soviet life – both in Moscow and in other regions of the USSR.
Construction of the hotel “Ukraina” from the roof of the U.S. Embassy on Novinsky Boulevard. On the left you can see the Church of the Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus (1954).
Tags: Moscow city · Soviet past
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Khanty-Mansiysk – the view from above
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos
Khanty-Mansiysk, the capital of Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug – Yugra, is located on the territory of the West Siberian Plain, on the right bank of the Irtysh River, 20 kilometers from the confluence with the Ob River; in the natural area of the taiga.
Yugra is the main oil and natural gas region of Russia and one of the largest oil producing regions in the world. Photos by: Slava Stepanov.
Tags: Khanty-Mansi okrug · Khanty-Mansiysk city
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Church of Elijah the Prophet in Yaroslavl
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Photos, Travel
Church of Elijah the Prophet, standing on Sovetskaya Square in the center of Yaroslavl, is an outstanding architectural monument of Yaroslavl school of architecture of the 17th century. This church almost completely preserved its original appearance.
The church was built in 1647-1650-ies at the expense of citizens of the town, the Yaroslavl merchants Vonifatiy Skripin and Ioannikiy Skripin who traded in furs, church utensils and precious stones. Photos by: Vladimir Dar.
Tags: churches · Yaroslavl city
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Blagoveshchensk – the view from above
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos, Travel
Blagoveshchensk is the fifth largest city in the Russian Far East, the capital of the Amur region.
This city, located on the left bank of the Amur River, is the only administrative center in Russia standing on the state border. Chinese city of Heihe is located on the right bank of the Amur, at a distance of half a kilometer. Photos by: Slava Stepanov.
Tags: Amur oblast · Blagoveschensk city
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Russian Empire in color – Vytegra and surroundings
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, Photos
Today, Vytegra is a small town (since 1773) with a population of about 10,000 people standing on the banks of the Vytegra River, 337 km north-west of Vologda, in the Vologda region.
You can see how this place looked like 108 years ago, in 1909. It is possible due to unique color photographs made by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Source.
General view of Vytegra and the Vytegra River.
Tags: Russian Empire · Vologda oblast
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Church of the Intercession at Fili in Moscow
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Photos, Travel
Church of the Intercession at Fili is an Orthodox church located in Filevsky Park district, in the western administrative district of Moscow (Novozavodskaya Street, 6).
This architectural monument of federal importance is a fine example of early Moscow baroque. The church was built by the boyar Lev Kirillovich Naryshkin, the uncle of Peter I, in 1690-1694. Photos by: Pavel Labutin.
Tags: churches · Moscow city