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The Alarm Clock (Budilnik) is an art object in the centre of Orenburg, in Perovsky Park, at the corner of Tsvillinga and Postnikova streets. The two-metre clock shaped like a classic alarm clock has become one of the best-known street sculptures of the Orenburg Region and a popular spot for photos.
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Mount Gebius (also Begius or Ploskaya, "Flat", on old maps) is a 735.6-metre peak on the border of the Gelendzhik and Tuapse districts of Krasnodar Krai, about 10 kilometres northeast of Arkhipo-Osipovka. It is one of the most prominent mountains on the Gelendzhik coast: its rounded outline can be s
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The tent camp in Simeiz is a small campsite on the western edge of the town, on Kiparisnaya Street, in the Yalta municipal district of Crimea. It sits at the foot of Mount Koshka, close to Blue Bay and the water park, and takes both hikers with tents and travellers arriving by car. History The
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Mount Camel (Gora Verblyud) is a rocky peak of the Zhiguli Mountains near the village of Shiryaevo in the Volzhsky District of Samara Oblast, Russia. It rises in the Kozyi Rozhki (Goat Horns) tract within Samarskaya Luka National Park and is named after the outline of its cliff, which resembles a ca
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The Velyaminov Estate is a former noble manor in the village of Vasino, Chekhov urban district, Moscow Oblast. The Vasino estate is known for its main house, one of the few surviving wooden Empire-style manor houses in the Moscow region. The house is listed as an architectural monument. History
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Mount Krutoy Klyuch is a rocky peak 782 metres high at the southern end of the Maly Uralsky Ridge, in the Miass urban district of Chelyabinsk Oblast. It rises on the left bank of the Sukhokamenka River, between Taganay National Park and Lake Turgoyak, and is known for its all-round view of the South
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Koronelli Campsite is a car campsite at the holiday centre of the same name in the village of Beregovoye, part of the Feodosia urban district in Crimea. It sits on Koronelli Street on the eastern edge of Feodosia, a few hundred metres from the Golden Beach, and suits travellers touring Crimea by car
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The Dumpling Museum is a private museum in Miass, Chelyabinsk Oblast, in the old part of town on Proletarskaya Street. It occupies the historic house of the merchant Smirnov and is often called the first museum in Russia devoted to pelmeni, the Russian dumplings; a monument to the dumpling stands in
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The Hanseatic Fountain is a fountain decorated with the coats of arms of the Hanseatic League countries, standing at Yaroslav's Court in Veliky Novgorod, on the right bank of the Volkhov River opposite the Novgorod Kremlin (2 Ilyina Street). It was opened in 2009 for the International Hanseatic Days
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The Monks' Cave, also known as the Cell of the Three Monks, is a small furnished grotto in a ravine on the slope of a hill in the Saraktash District of the Orenburg Region, Russia. It lies near the village of Andreevka and is linked to the St. Andrew's Monastery: according to local residents, monks
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The Museum of Architecture and Design of the Ural State University of Architecture and Art (UrGAKhU) is a university museum in central Yekaterinburg, in the Historical Square by the Plotinka dam on the Iset River. The address is 4a Gorky Street, with the entrance from the embankment. The museum cove
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The Siebruniemi torpedo battery is an unfinished German rock-cut torpedo battery from the Second World War on the eastern shore of Pechenga Bay, near the village of Liinakhamari in the Pechenga district of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is described as the only rock torpedo battery in Russia: its torpe
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Vysotsky Glade is a small memorial site in Sochi, in the Agura Gorge of the Khostinsky District. The glade sits at the very start of the trail to the Agura Waterfalls, on the edge of a cliff above the Agura River, and is named after Vladimir Vysotsky, who spent time here with Marina Vlady. Histo
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Sugomak Cave (Sugomakskaya peshchera) is a karst cave on the eastern slope of Mount Sugomak near the town of Kyshtym in Chelyabinsk Oblast. It is considered the only cave in the Urals carved by water in marble. The cave is protected as a geological natural monument and is part of a popular route tog
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The Zatonsky Bridge in Ufa, also called the Old Zatonsky or Safronovsky Bridge (Затонский мост), is a road bridge over the Belaya River at the Safronovskaya crossing, the second one built in the city. It links central Ufa with the Zaton district on the opposite bank and is considered one of the larg
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The Altai communication system tower stands on Sovkhoznaya Street (No. 154) in Orenburg, Russia. The steel mast, about 111 metres tall, was built for the Soviet Altai car radiotelephone system; among the city's telecom structures only the GTRK TV tower is taller. Today it carries antennas of mobile
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Ataman (Atamán) is an open-air ethnographic museum in the village of Taman, Temryuk District, Krasnodar Krai: a life-size reconstruction of a Cossack stanitsa. The complex covers about 60 hectares on the western edge of Taman, by Mount Lysaya and the shore of the Taman Bay of the Black Sea. It opene
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The Li-2 crash site is a memorial in the Sol-Iletsk district of the Orenburg region, in the steppe by the road to Akbulak and the Kazakhstan border, near Elshanka and the former villages of Saratovka and Boevogorskaya. On the night of 2 March 1943 a transport plane crashed here, killing Hero of the
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The monument to P. P. Bazhov is a bronze bust of the Ural writer on Plotinka, the dam of the City Pond in the very centre of Yekaterinburg, by Lenin Avenue. Unveiled in 1958, it was the first monument to Pavel Petrovich Bazhov and is one of the city's familiar landmarks linked to his tales. Hist
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The Holy Intercession Convent (Pokrovsky Monastery) stands on the edge of Suzdal in Vladimir Oblast, on the right bank of the Kamenka River, opposite the Saviour Monastery of St Euthymius, at 76 Pokrovskaya Street. The Pokrovsky Monastery in Suzdal was founded in 1364, and its main buildings date fr
