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Pivansky Tunnel is an unfinished railway tunnel cut into a hill by the village of Pivan on the left bank of the Amur River, across from the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in the Komsomolsky District of Khabarovsk Krai. It is known as the first tunnel of the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM): it was meant to l
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Cape Lopatka is the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Elizovsky District of Kamchatka Krai. Two seas meet here: the Sea of Okhotsk washes the cape from the west, the Pacific Ocean from the east. It is one of the most remote and harshest corners of Kamchatka. Nature The surface of
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Tsar-Bor Ecopark (Экопарк «Царь-бор») is the signature recreational area of the Buzuluksky Bor National Park in the Buzuluksky district of Orenburg Oblast, near the settlement of Koltubanovsky. The park opened in June 2022 as a landscaped entrance zone to the forest: a parking lot, restrooms and sev
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The Tobolsk Kremlin stands on Troitsky Cape in Tobolsk, Tyumen Region, about 250 kilometers from Tyumen. It is the only stone kremlin in Siberia, and today it is part of the Tobolsk State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve. History A wooden fort once stood on this site and was rebuilt
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Reyneke Island lies in the Peter the Great Bay of the Sea of Japan, part of the Empress Eugenie Archipelago, about 25 km south of central Vladivostok. Administratively it belongs to the Pervomaysky district of the city. A narrow, shallow strait separates it from the neighboring Popov Island. His
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Dragon Park (Park Drakonov) is a rock formation complex in the Lazovsky municipal district of Primorsky Krai, near the village of Chistovodnoye. It is a cluster of bizarre rock outcrops shaped like old castles, mythical creatures, animals and people. The outcrops cover an area of nearly 40 square ki
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Mount Lopatin is the highest point of Sakhalin Island, rising to 1,609 meters. The peak lies in Sakhalin Oblast, in the Tymovsky municipal district, at the junction of the Nabilsky, Stlanikovy and Lunsky ranges of the East Sakhalin Mountains. It is here that the island's three mountain ranges meet,
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The Gelendzhik Range Lighthouse stands on the northern shore of Gelendzhik Bay in the town of Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai. A white four-sided stone tower 13 meters tall adjoins a two-story house built for the lighthouse keepers and their families in the Art Nouveau style - combining living quarters a
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The Oprichnik Lighthouse stands on Cape Signalny, the eastern entrance cape of Oprichnik Bay, in the Dalnegorsk municipal district of Primorsky Krai. The nearest settlement is the village of Kamenka, located along the coast to the northwest, about a kilometer from the lighthouse. The cape and th
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Uley Glamping (full name Uley Ethno Art, "uley" means "beehive") is a country retreat in the village of Novoaktashevo, Karmaskaly District, Republic of Bashkortostan. It is one of the getaway spots near Ufa: the drive from the republic's capital takes about 40 minutes. The Karlaman River flows close
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Sokol Cliff, also known as Peter's Stone (Petrov Kamen), is a limestone rock on the western slope of Mount Lysaya in the Zhiguli Mountains, on the edge of Zhigulyovsk in Samara Oblast, Russia. It lies in the recreation zone of the Samarskaya Luka National Park and is one of the best-known viewpoints
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The Mass Grave of Soviet Soldiers is a memorial complex in the old city cemetery of Anapa, off Protapova Street, in Krasnodar Krai. More than 200 people are buried here: soldiers who fell fighting for the town or died in military hospitals, and civilians of Anapa killed during the occupation. Hi
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Fort Clatsop was the winter camp of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in Clatsop County, Oregon, near the mouth of the Columbia River, about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Astoria. The Corps of Discovery spent the winter of 1805–06 here, its last before the return journey to St. Louis. Today a replica of
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The Phanagoria Fortress (Fanagoriyskaya krepost) is a late 18th-century earthwork fortification in the village of Taman, Temryuk District, Krasnodar Krai. Built under the direction of Alexander Suvorov, it survives as tall earthen ramparts on Karl Marx Street, at the entrance to the village from the
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The Monument to Maxim Gorky stands in the Strukovsky Garden (Strukovsky Sad), the oldest park in Samara, near the entrance at the corner of Krasnoarmeyskaya Street and Frunze Street. It was unveiled in 1978 to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of the writer, who lived and worked in Samara in t
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Fort Vancouver is a reconstructed 19th-century fur trading post on the north bank of the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, across the river from Portland. From 1825 to 1860 it was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department, and today it is part of the Fort Vancouver Na
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The German Airfield (Nemetsky Aerodrom) is a flat high-mountain plateau on the northern slope of Mount Elbrus, in the Dzhily-Su area of the Zolsky District, Kabardino-Balkaria. It is the bed of a dried-up lake, roughly 1.5 by 2 kilometres, at about 2,850–2,900 metres above sea level. The place is kn
