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Official language: Russian
Population: 139 165 000
Capital: Moscow - 8 015 000
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ATLAS PHOTO: EUROPE: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
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Area: 17 075 000 qu.km. Official language: Russian Population: 139 165 000 Capital: Moscow - 8 015 000 |
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THROUGHOUT RUSSIA |
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ALK Homepage | Tourism | Album A collection of the large beautiful pictures of nature of the north of Russia. Pay attention to a photo of rainbow in the section Ondo lake! |
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Live Photo These are some really warm vivid pictures. So many flowers! The collection is designed in the style of year seasons. (Russian version only) |
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On-Line Exhibitions An interesting web site with some links to nice pictures of some Russian cities. |
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THE NORTH WEST OF RUSSIA
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| Heykkinen Alexander Yakovlevitsh Light-blue eyes of Karelian lakes with all their impossible shades. These are contrast, vivid pictures allocated by 6 sections. (Karelia is a land in the north of european Russia) |
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Window in Karelia Kiji, Valaam, beautiful views of north Russian nature! 9 sections of pictures, many from which as if come alive Russian fairy tales! |
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Karelia Woods, a lake, a river of this surprising territory in pictures. Especially it is pleasant to the fans of water tourism. |
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Welcome to Kirillov The web-site introduces visitors to some towns located around Beloe Lake (Vologda region) - Belozersk, Goritsi, Kirillov and Ferapontovo village. The towns are known for their ancient Russian monasteries - Kirillo-Belozersky and Ferapontov monasteries and also Goritskiy nunnery. The site contains many views of the towns and monasteries as well as other useful information (maps and articles). All texts are in Russian but the pictures are really worth to see if you want to look at unspoiled yet Russia. Follow the next way: select a town on the first page, then select one of lower links - they're dedicated to pictures. |
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Behind a Polar circle" A large, well made and organized, remarkable collection of pictures of the North of Russia. I like a photo taken by Sergey Ustenko and Nickolai Nikolaev from Polar Ural! |
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Ladoga 1998, author Ilya A. Kalinin 3 sets of large beautiful pictures from one travel to the north of Russia. Pay attention to a photo of rainbow in the second set! |
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CENTRAL REGIONS
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Yasnaya Polyana This is the first page of interesting virtual walk to manor, in which lived Leo Tolstoy (the famous Russian writer). On this page 4 large and beautiful photo landscape. |
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A forest summer - Tver region This is short photo story about a summer forest - roads and paths, trees washing their branches in sunrays, bilberries, a green carpet of moss and mushrooms. |
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BANKS OF THE VOLGA RIVER
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Photo gallery of nature These are some beautiful pictures of the banks of the Volga river (the longest european river). You can virtually travel to almost source of Volga (Tver region), where it's just a small river, and then to the Middle Volga (Samara region), where it turns to a real mighty river. Many of these places cannot be seen from cruise ships - it's the surruonding wolrd of the Volga river. |
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Kalyazin - Photoalbum Kalyazin is a small town but it has its original features. The town is located on the picturesque bank of Volga river (170 km to the north-east from Moscow). Silent coniferous forest, meadows full of flowers, the sun playing in clouds and silvering the river surface - these photos please any virtual traveler. However there is a special picture in the album - a photo of bell tower of the Nicolas cathedral lonely raising just at the middle of Volga. Here guides of cruise ships used to tell about sad fate of Troitsky Kolyazin monastery which was visited by many Russian tsars and which was destroyed during the construction of Uglitch's hydroelectric power station. The bell tower is a monument of past might... |
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| Nizhniy Novgorod Kremlin located on a hill nearby the place where the Oka river flows into the Volga. Before the Tatar yoke it was a wooden fortress. In 1500 one started to build stone towers and walls instead of the wooden dilapidated Kremlin. From the Volga river this architectural ensemble looks magnificently - notched walls (15 m in height), 13 pointed four-storied towers. The highest of the towers is Tchasovaya (from Russian word "tchasi" - "a clock" - the tower had a clock). It served as a watchtower. |
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