The year of 2010 is coming to its end and here is the list of most popular topics of our blog as for 2010. Great variety of different themes but still Russia in its uniqueness and beauty (the posts are sorted in chronological order).
1. Two parts post devoted to Soviet propaganda during the World War II. Really interesting pieces of art (part 1, part 2)
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The rescue of minibus and its driver
No comments · Posted by Alex Smirnov in Society, Video
Russian roads can’t stop Russian people :)
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Saint Petersburg is having permanent problems with cleaning snow and may be this video shows one of the reasons. Really Russia is rich in lazy but crafty people :)
Tags: Saint Petersburg city
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Wrangel Island Soviet military presence pollution
8 Comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos, Regions
Wrangel Island is Russian island located in Arctic Ocean between East-Siberian and Chukotskoye Seas (Chukotka autonomous okrug). The island is the part of Wrangel natural reserve and has the status of UNESCO World Heritage from 2004.
Unfortunately like a lot of other territories of Russian Arctic the region was used as Soviet military outpost and here is the result. The photos were captured by Gorshkov Sergey.
Tags: Abandoned · Chukotka okrug
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Ashes in the wind song and abandoned church views
No comments · Posted by Alex Smirnov in Music, Video
The photos were captured somewhere on the territory of Lipetsk oblast by Stas Korniyenko.
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The landscapes of Bryansk oblast
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos, Regions
The following sceneries were captured during the trip to Bryansk oblast by Viktor Borisov (all the photos are clickable).
Tags: Bryansk oblast · landscapes
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Uzury area of Olkhon Island, Baikal Lake
2 Comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos, Regions, Travel
Olkhon is the largest island of Baikal Lake, Irkutsk oblast with the land area of about 730 sq. km. And Uzury is a very little settlement (about 10 people) located on the eastern side of Olkhon which main purpose is to maintain the weather station. The photos were captured by Dmitry Yurlagin (all the pictures are clickable).
Tags: Irkutsk oblast
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Russian Spitsbergen winter sceneries
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos, Travel
Spitsbergen is a vast polar archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean. It is the northernmost part of Norway. Also there is significant Russian economic activity in the archipelago according to its special status.
There is Russian settlement on West Spitsbergen Island – Barentsburg, as well as abandoned villages Pyramid and Grumant. And here are the sceneries of these settlements and surroundings captured by Frederick Taer (all the photos are clickable).
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