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The Yaman-Kasy quarry lies in Orenburg Oblast, near the town of Mednogorsk, on the site of a copper-pyrite ore deposit. Today it is an abandoned open pit with visible traces of mining, which has become a well-known destination for walks around Mednogorsk. History The Yaman-Kasy copper-pyrite de
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Kinelskie Yary (Kinel Ravines) are high riverside hills along the right bank of the Bolshoy Kinel River, stretching across the Buguruslansky district of Orenburg Region and neighboring districts of Samara Region. The terrain is heavily dissected: steep bluffs that locals call "lby" (foreheads), deep
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The Svyato-Nikolsky Convent (Holy St. Nicholas Convent) is an active Orthodox women's monastery in Saratov Oblast, in the village of Monastyrsky in Pugachyovsky District, a few kilometers from the town of Pugachyov. The convent belongs to the Pokrovsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Hist
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The Church of the Archangel Michael stands in the village of Nikolaevka, Birsk district, Republic of Bashkortostan, on a hill a few kilometers from the town of Birsk. The brick church, built in the early 20th century, is now abandoned but is officially listed as an architectural monument of the repu
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The Bely Klyuch Tract (Урочище Белый Ключ) is a landscape and botanical nature monument in the Ilek district of Orenburg Region, 12 kilometers northeast of the village of Sladkovo. It is the district's largest watershed forest massif, covering 354 hectares of upland ravine oak forest, with a spring
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Lake Kalkan lies in the Uchalinsky district of Bashkortostan, about 20 km north of the town of Uchaly and 3.6 km north of the village of Kalkanovo. The name comes from the Bashkir word "kalkan", meaning "shield" — a reference to the lake's elongated shape. The water surface covers about 1.8 square k
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The Satka magnesite deposit group is a large cluster of magnesite deposits in the Satka municipal district of Chelyabinsk Oblast, near the town of Satka. The deposit consists of four magnesite-bearing belts — the Main, Nikolskaya, Berezovskaya and Elnichnaya belts — and the Main belt is worked by se
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The Assumption St. George Monastery, known locally as "Svyatye Kustiki" (Holy Bushes), is an active men's monastery in the Blagoveshchensky District of Bashkortostan, near the village of Usa-Stepanovka. It lies about 100 km from Ufa along the Ufa-Blagoveshchensk highway. The monastery belongs to the
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Sabakty is a freshwater lake in the Abzelilovsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan, at the eastern foot of the Krykty-Tau ridge. It is part of a chain of three lakes: Sabakty itself (also known as Chebachye), Karabalykty (Linevoye), and the largest and best known, Yakty-Kul, more often calle
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Mount Yurma is the summit of the Yurma ridge in the north of Chelyabinsk Oblast, on the border of the Kusa and Karabash municipal districts, near Taganay National Park. The mountain is 1003 metres high and is considered one of the first peaks over 1000 metres in the Southern Urals. It is built of cr
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Shuyda Ridge (Khrebet Shuyda) is a mountain ridge in the Southern Urals, in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, within the Katav-Ivanovsky municipal district. It stretches about 25 km from west to east between the valley of the Yuryuzan River and the town of Bakal, with an average elevation of 700–800 meter
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Relict Forest (Reliktovy Les) is a nature monument in the Aurgazinsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan, about a kilometer northeast of the village of Staroabsalyamovo, not far from the village of Kurmanayevo. The forest is also known as the Absalyamovo Relict Pines and stands on a high hill
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Yalangas Ridge is a mountain ridge in the Southern Urals, in the Beloretsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan. It stretches roughly 10 kilometers from north to south. The route to the ridge usually passes through the town of Beloretsk and the hamlet of Otnurok, with the Zhuravlinoye Bog area
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Arka-Yurt Cave is located in the Gafuriysky District of Bashkortostan, 4 km east of the village of Imendyashevo, on a forest clearing of the same name. Its passages run about 330 meters; the cave belongs to the Muradymovo series of caves in this part of the Southern Urals. Inside the cave The e
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Lake Sinara is a large lake of tectonic origin in the Kasli district of Chelyabinsk Oblast, on the border with the Snezhinsk urban district, a few kilometers from the city of Snezhinsk. The lake stretches from northwest to southeast for about 8 kilometers, its width ranges from 1 to 5.5 kilometers (
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Dimitrova Bay is the largest bay on the Pacific coast of Shikotan Island, the southernmost of the Kuril Islands, in Sakhalin Oblast. It lies in the Yuzhno-Kurilsky municipal district, on the island's southeastern shore, about 2.5 nautical miles southwest of Mayachnaya Bay. What it is The bay has
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Ekarma Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the northern Kuril chain, in the Sea of Okhotsk. Administratively it belongs to the North Kuril municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast and lies between the islands of Chirinkotan and Shiashkotan. The whole island is occupied by an active volcano and
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Antsiferov Island (Ostrov Antsiferova) is a small, uninhabited island at the northern end of the Greater Kuril Ridge, in the Sea of Okhotsk off Kamchatka's eastern coast. It belongs to the Severo-Kurilsk municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast and is separated from the larger Paramushir Island by the
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Bunker-703 is a former secure underground storage facility of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, now open as a museum of modern fortification. It is located in the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow, at 2nd Novokuznetsky Lane, building 14, structure 1, next to the Paveletskaya metro station and ac
