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The Treasury of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) (Сокровищница Республики Саха (Якутия)) is a permanent exhibition of precious metals, gemstones and jewelry in Yakutsk, the republic's capital on the Lena River. It displays part of the State Fund of Precious Metals and Gemstones of the Sakha Republic (Ya
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Kamsakskoye Gorge (Камсакское ущелье) is a rocky gorge on the Kamsak River in the Dombarovsky District of Orenburg Oblast, about 2 km east of the settlement of Goluboy Fakel and 1 km east of the mouth of the Dombarovka stream, near the former settlement of the Kamyshaklinsky state farm. The site is
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The Sretensky Convent (Convent of the Meeting of the Lord) stands in the village of Baturino, Pribaikalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, in the valley of the Itantsa River among low hills. The convent is about 70 km from Ulan-Ude along the Barguzin highway and about 100 km from Lake Baikal. It is
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Durnovo Island is one of the islands of the Rimsky-Korsakov Archipelago in Peter the Great Bay, part of the Sea of Japan, off the southern coast of the Khasansky municipal district of Primorsky Krai. It belongs to the Far Eastern Marine Biosphere Reserve and is known chiefly for its sheer southern c
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The Marble Reach of the Kamenka River (Mramornyy Ples) is a geological and hydrological nature monument in the Kvarkensky District of Orenburg Oblast, about 1.9 km northwest of the village of Kirovsk. Local residents call it Lake Kholodnoye (Cold Lake); it is also known as Kamennoye or Mramornoye. T
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Bukhta Spokoynaya (Quiet Bay) is a small bay of the Sea of Japan in Primorsky Krai, within the Nakhodka urban district, about 30 kilometers from Nakhodka toward the settlement of Vostochny. The bay's beaches are made of fine white sand, the water is warm and clear with an emerald tint, and there is
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Sparrow Hills (Vorobyovy Gory) are the high right bank of the Moskva River at its bend, in southwestern Moscow, facing the Luzhniki Stadium. The slope rises up to 80 meters above the river and stretches for about 4 km, from the mouth of the Setun River to the Andreevsky Bridge. It is one of the most
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The Multinskie Lakes (Мультинские озёра) are a cascade of glacial mountain lakes on the northern slope of the Katun Ridge, in the Ust-Koksinsky District of the Altai Republic. They lie in the upper course of the Multa River and share its name: the Lower, Middle and Upper Multinskoye lakes, together
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Malaya Dudkinskaya Adit is an abandoned system of underground mine workings in Ufa, in the Republic of Bashkortostan. It runs under the slope on which the Zelyonaya Roshcha (Green Grove) neighborhood stands, not far from the Ufa exhibition grounds (VDNKh). The total length of the passages is about 2
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The lake near Svetloyarovka is a small body of water in the Chernigovsky municipal district of Primorsky Krai. It lies next to the Svetloyarovka railway siding of the same name and a few kilometres from the village of Sibirtsevo, among the forested hills of this part of Primorye. History of the
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Rinpoche Bagsha Datsan (Dacan Rinpoche Bagsha) is a Buddhist temple complex on top of Lysaya Gora (Bald Mountain) in Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Republic of Buryatia. The hill here rises to 888 meters, and the datsan's observation platform offers a panoramic view of the city and the Selenga River.
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Voitsky Padun is a former waterfall on the Nizhny Vyg River where it flows out of Lake Vygozero, near the settlement of Nadvoitsy in the Segezha district of the Republic of Karelia. Until the 1930s it was one of the best-known waterfalls in Karelia, and in the 18th century the Voitsky mine next to i
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The Pskov Stud Farm stele stands at the entrance to the village of Volyshovo in the Porkhov District of Pskov Oblast, on the Porkhov–Uspenye road, about 19 kilometres from Porkhov. It marks the turn to one of the oldest stud farms in the region, founded in 1923 on the former estate of the Counts Str
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Shukshin Cliff (Shukshinsky Utyos) is a chalk bluff on the right bank of the Don in the Kletsky District of the Volgograd Oblast, near the khutor of Melokletsky, within the Great Bend of the Don. The cliff is part of the chalk hills lining the river. On its top stand a chapel, a mass grave of the de
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The Murmansk Alyosha, officially the memorial "To the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War", is the main monument to the defenders of Murmansk. It stands on top of Zeleny Mys (Green Cape), a 173-metre hill in Murmansk, not far from Okhotnichy Lane. It is one of the tallest m
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St. Andrew's Skete, also called St. Andrew's Hermitage, stands on Bolshoy Zayatsky Island in the Solovetsky archipelago, a few kilometres south-west of Bolshoy Solovetsky Island. The island is small, about 1.25 square kilometres. The skete's main building is the wooden Church of St. Andrew the First
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Мемориал "Скорбящая мать" - памятник уроженцам Башкортостана, погибшим в различных локальных конфликтах с 1951-го года. Мемориал был установлен 25 октября 2003 года. Автором мемориала является Николай Александрович Калинушкин. В центре композиции монумента - фигура женщины, оплакавающей ги
