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The eruption of volcano Kluchevskaya Sopka
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos, Regions
Kluchevskaya Sopka is the most active and highest volcano in Eurasia region (4,750 meters) located in Kamchatka krai of Russia. The following photos were captured during one of the numerous eruptions by Dementievskiy Ivan (the photos are clickable).
Tags: Kamchatka krai
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The views of Omsk city at night time
The following nice photos of Omsk city were captured during the night time by Stepanov Slava (all the pictures are clickable).
Tags: Omsk city
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The views of provincial Russian town Poshekhonye
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Cities, Photos, Regions
Poshekhonye is a small town with the population of about 6,500 (2010) located in Yaroslavl oblast of Russia. The town is situated 151 km to the northwest of Yaroslavl city. The settlement was first time mentioned in 1680 and from 1777 has the status of the town. Here are the photos of Poshekhonye town captured by Maxim Yashin in April 2009.
Tags: Yaroslavl oblast
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The museum of electric transport of Nizhny Novgorod city
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos, Technology
The following pictures were captured at Nizhny Novgorod museum of city electric transport located on Ivliyeva Str., 1, Tram depot #1, contact phone: +7 831 468 98 88.
The museum has the trams and trolleybuses of the city’s past. The photos were captured by antares_610 (the photos are clickable).
Tags: museum · Nizhny Novgorod city
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Kostroma city beautiful architecture
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Cities, Photos
Kostroma is one of the cities of famous “Golden Ring of Russia” tourist route offering numerous monuments of Russian culture, history and architecture. The following photos of Kostroma were captured by Padunskiy (the pictures are clickable).
Tags: Kostroma city
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Ivangorod town fortress pictures
1 Comment · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, History, Photos, Travel
Ivangorod is a small town located in Leningrad region of Russia with the population of about 11,000 (2010). The town is standing on Narva river bank opposite to Estonian town of Narva.
The settlement was founded in 1492 as a fortress. The fortress of Ivangorod played an important role during numerous wars of 16th-17th centuries. The following photos of Ivangorod fortress were captured by Andrey Rumyantsev.
Tags: Leningrad oblast
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Solovki Islands monastery views
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Culture, Photos, Travel
Solovki monastery founded in 1420-1430 on Solovetsky Islands (Arkhangelsk oblast) is among the main historical monuments of Russia included in UNESCO World Heritage list. The following photos of the monastery were captured by Maxim Yashin.
Tags: Arkhangelsk oblast · churches · monastery
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Beautiful scenery of Bryansk oblast
4 Comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Nature, Photos, Travel
The following pictures were captured during Bryansk oblast travel showing us several nice landscapes of the region and the architecture of abandoned Spaso-Preobrazhensky monastery. The photos were captured by Shtish (all the photos are clickable).
Tags: Bryansk oblast · monastery
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Socialism vs Capitalism propaganda posters
12 Comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Art, History, Photos
Here are several posters that “showed” Soviet people the difference between socialism and capitalism.
Tags: posters · propaganda