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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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The Koloksha Idol (Kolokshinsky istukan) is a concrete sculpture of a giant on the high bank of the Klyazma River in the Sobinsky District of Vladimir Oblast, near the village of Ustye and the hamlet of Koloksha. A huge figure seems to be emerging from the ground: only its head, a raised hand and a
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Meshchera National Park lies in the southwest of Vladimir Oblast, in Gus-Khrustalny District, and was established in 1992 to preserve the natural complex of the Meshchera Lowland. The park covers about 118,900 hectares, of which 61% is held directly by the park, while private owners carry out econom
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The Church of St Michael the Archangel on Studyonaya Gora (Mikhailo-Arkhangelskaya Church) is an Orthodox church in Vladimir, at 1A Studyonaya Gora Street. Built of red brick in 1891–1893 in an eclectic style with Byzantine features, it belongs to the Vladimir Diocese and is a regional cultural heri
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The Golden Gate is a significant monument of ancient Russian architecture and one of the symbols of the city of Vladimir. Built in 1164 by order of Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky, they served not only as a defensive structure, but also as a triumphal arch that formed the main entrance to the rich part of
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Vladimir Central is a prison in the city of Vladimir, on Bolshaya Nizhegorodskaya Street. Its official name is the Federal State Institution "Prison No. 2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Vladimir Oblast", and it is still operating today: this is not only a museum but a working maxi
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The Cathedral of Saint Demetrius (Dmitrievsky Sobor) is a white-stone church from the late 12th century in the centre of Vladimir, on Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, next to the Dormition Cathedral. It is one of the key monuments of early Russian architecture in the Vladimir region: the cathedral is pa
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The Holy Assumption Cathedral is the main church of Vladimir and of the Vladimir diocese, a 12th-century white-stone monument on the high bank of the Klyazma River, on Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street in the historic centre. The cathedral is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "White Monuments of Vlad
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The Monument to Prince Vladimir and Saint Feodor is a sculptural group in the historic centre of Vladimir, Russia, standing on the viewing platform of Pushkin Park near the Dormition Cathedral. Also known as the Monument to the Baptisers of the Vladimir Land, it was unveiled in 2007 and has become o
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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
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The House of the Agapov Merchants is a late 18th-century merchant house in Suzdal, Vladimir Region, at 7 Tolstoy Street, next to the Museum of Wooden Architecture, of which it is now a part. The lower floor is stone and the upper one is wooden. The building is protected as a regional monument of urb
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St. Basil Monastery, also known as the Vasilyevsky Monastery, is an Orthodox men's monastery on the eastern edge of Suzdal in Vladimir Oblast, at 32 Vasilyevskaya Street. It is one of the oldest monasteries in Suzdal: it has been known since the 13th century, and its main church, the Cathedral of St
