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The Melnichny Stream Waterfall (Vodopad na Melnichnom ruchye) is a cascade of small waterfalls on the stream of the same name in the Pskov Oblast, in the Pechory municipal district, about a kilometer and a half from Izborsk. The site lies in a deep ravine known locally as the Melnichnaya gully and f
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Bakhura is a small river in the Dolinsky municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast, flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk on the eastern coast of Sakhalin Island. The river is 17 km long, with a drainage basin area of 55 square kilometers. By hydrological zoning the Bakhura basin is assigned to the Amur water
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The Ak-Monay quarries (Ак-Монайские каменоломни) are abandoned underground workings in the northeast of the Kerch Peninsula, Republic of Crimea. They stretch for about 7.5 km along the Sea of Azov coast east of the village of Kamenskoye (formerly Ak-Monay), not far from the Arabat Spit. The name mea
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Voroshilov Battery is a former coastal artillery battery on Russky Island in the Vladivostok urban district of Primorsky Krai, now a military-historical museum complex, a branch of the Pacific Fleet Military-Historical Museum. It stands on the western shore of Polonka Bay, within the city limits of
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Lake Pleshcheyevo (Плещеево озеро) is one of the largest lakes in central Russia, in Yaroslavl Oblast, by the town of Pereslavl-Zalessky, 140 km from Moscow. Its surface area is 51.8 square kilometres, its length about 9.5 km and its maximum width 6.5 km. The round lake basin formed roughly 30,000 y
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Olkhovaya is a 1,669-metre peak in the Partizansky municipal district of Primorsky Krai, part of the Alekseyevsky ridge within the Sikhote-Alin mountain system. The mountain separates the valleys of the Partizanskaya and Kiyevka rivers and lies roughly a two-hour drive from Nakhodka. It is one of th
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The ruins of Jaakkima Kirk stand on a hill that locals call Church Hill, in the Lakhdenpokhsky municipal district of the Republic of Karelia, three kilometers from the town of Lakhdenpokhya and close to the shore of Lake Ladoga. Since 2019 the surviving walls of the ruined Lutheran church have house
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Cape Grin is a rocky cape on the coast of Aniva Bay in the Korsakovsky municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast, in the south of the island, not far from the village of Muravyovo. The cape juts out toward the open sea, and its high cliffs drop straight into the water: in places the rock faces reach 85
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The Island of the Longing Heart (Ostrov Tomyashchegosya Serdtsa) is a rocky islet about a hundred metres long in Telyakovsky Bay on the Gamov Peninsula, in the Khasansky municipal district of Primorsky Krai. A shallow strait about thirty metres wide, which can be waded, separates it from the shore.
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Voevoda Waterfall lies on the western coast of the Tatar Strait in the Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast, about 5 kilometers south of Cape Zhonkiere and near the village of Due. The Ugledarka River plunges here from a coastal cliff straight onto a pebble beach, and the w
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Buguzunsky Pass is a mountain pass in the Altai Republic, on the border of the Kosh-Agach district with the Republic of Tuva (Mongun-Taiginsky kozhuun), in the southern part of the Chikhachev Ridge. It lies about 55-70 km from the village of Kosh-Agach and connects Gorny Altai with Tuva. The pass is
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The memorial at the site where cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died stands in the steppe of Adamovsky District, Orenburg Oblast, Russia, 3 km west of the village of Karabutak. It was here, on 24 April 1967, that the descent module of the Soyuz-1 spacecraft crashed — the first death of a human being durin
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Solomennaya Cave (the "Straw Cave") is a karst cave in the Katav-Ivanovsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, in the Sim River valley near the village of Serpievka. It is part of the Serpievka cave town, a group of caves along a stretch of the upper Sim about 15 km long, and has been a regional natural
