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Cities of Russia at Night – the Views from Space
1 Comment · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos, Technology
Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko is the 102nd cosmonaut of Russia and the 473rd cosmonaut of the world. As of April 2019, he is on the International Space Station and during the three previous flights he already spent 533 days in space.
From the ISS, he took a lot of photographs of various regions of the Earth. Let’s see how the cities of Russia look at night from orbit. Source: Roscosmos.
Moscow – the capital of Russia.
Saint Petersburg – the second largest city of Russia.
Samara – the center of the Volga economic region.
Volgograd – the place of the Battle of Stalingrad during the Second World War.
Grozny – the capital of the Chechnya Republic located in the North Caucasus.
Orenburg located in the south of the Urals near the border with Kazakhstan.
Saratov on the right bank of the Volgograd reservoir of the Volga River.
Astrakhan – the oldest economic and cultural center of the Lower Volga and the Caspian region.
Vladivostok – a city and port in the Far East of Russia, the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Tver – one of the oldest cities in Russia.
Irkutsk – the sixth largest city in Siberia.
Angarsk located in the southern, most developed part of the Irkutsk region.
Krasnodar – the unofficial southern capital of Russia.
Novorossiysk – one of the largest Russian sea ports located on the coast of the Black Sea.
Tolyatti – the second largest city in the Samara region.
Tags: Angarsk city · Astrakhan city · Grozny city · Irkutsk city · Krasnodar city · Moscow city · Novorossiysk city · Orenburg city · Saint Petersburg city · Samara city · Saratov city · Tolyatti city · Tver city · Vladivostok city · Volgograd city
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TAPANI HEINONEN · July 5, 2020 at 9:51 pm
IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE HOW DIFFEREENT KIND OF WORLD LOOKS SEEING FROM OUTERSPACE IN NIGHT TIME. I THINK AND SUPPOSE THAT SPACE COSMONAUT HAVE LARGER AND MORE VARIED WORLD VIEW THAN PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN OUTSIDE OF THE EARTH. COSMONAUT TAKEN PHOTO VIEW POINT HOW WEAKLY AND POORLY WORLD ILLUMINATION ARE OUTSIDE OF CITIES.
WORLD PEOPLE ARE IN MANY AREA WITHOUT ELECTRICITY.