Nizhny Tagil is the second largest city of Sverdlovsk oblast of Russia. The city is one of the largest and oldest mining and metallurgical centers of the country.

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Today Izborsk (also known as Old Izborsk) is a village located in Pechorsky district of Pskovskaya oblast. But the settlement of Izborsk is also one of the most ancient Russian towns mentioned together with Smolensk and Polotsk towns.

Izborsk is located about 30 km to the west of Pskov city. Main attraction of the place is a fortress constructed in the 14th century. The photos were captured by John Sinterson (all the pictures are clickable).

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Magnitogorsk city is the second largest city of Chelyabinsk oblast and one of the largest in the world centers of ferrous metallurgy.

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Ferapontov monastery located in Kirillovsky district of Vologda oblast is Russian historical and cultural monument of state importance. The monastery is in the list of UNESCO World Heritage and is one of the main places of interest of the region. The following photos of Ferapontov monastery were captured by av_otus.

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Komsomolsk-on-Amur city, located in Khabarovsk krai (region) of Russia is the largest industrial center of Russian Far East.

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The following photos were captured in several villages of Kich-Gorodetsky district of Vologda oblast by Olya Ivanova

The second part of the photos

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Zlatoust is the third largest city of Chelyabinsk oblast and the most alpine city of the Urals.

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The following church built in 1790 is located in the former village of Krokhino (Vologda oblast) flooded in the beginning of 1960th with the construction of Volga-Baltic Canal.

The church was standing on the upland and survived the flooding but was abandoned. And here are the views of the present state of the church by shtish. The last picture is the photo of the church captured in the year of 1910.

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Dzerzhinsk is the second largest city of Nizhegorodskaya oblast of Russia located about 30 km to the west of Nizhny Novgorod city. The city was named after Soviet revolutionary leader Feliks Dzerzhinsky in 1929.

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