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Bely Klyuch Tract

Russia, Ilekskiy rayon

The Bely Klyuch Tract (Урочище Белый Ключ) is a landscape and botanical nature monument in the Ilek district of Orenburg Region, 12 kilometers northeast of the village of Sladkovo. It is the district's largest watershed forest massif, covering 354 hectares of upland ravine oak forest, with a spring

Lake Kalkan

Russia, Kalkanovo

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Lake Kalkan lies in the Uchalinsky district of Bashkortostan, about 20 km north of the town of Uchaly and 3.6 km north of the village of Kalkanovo. The name comes from the Bashkir word "kalkan", meaning "shield" — a reference to the lake's elongated shape. The water surface covers about 1.8 square k

Satka Magnesite Deposit Group

Russia, Satkinskiy rayon

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The Satka magnesite deposit group is a large cluster of magnesite deposits in the Satka municipal district of Chelyabinsk Oblast, near the town of Satka. The deposit consists of four magnesite-bearing belts — the Main, Nikolskaya, Berezovskaya and Elnichnaya belts — and the Main belt is worked by se

Assumption St. George Monastery

Russia, Usa-Stepanovka

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The Assumption St. George Monastery, known locally as "Svyatye Kustiki" (Holy Bushes), is an active men's monastery in the Blagoveshchensky District of Bashkortostan, near the village of Usa-Stepanovka. It lies about 100 km from Ufa along the Ufa-Blagoveshchensk highway. The monastery belongs to the

Lake Sabakty

Russia, Kusimovskogo rudnika

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Sabakty is a freshwater lake in the Abzelilovsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan, at the eastern foot of the Krykty-Tau ridge. It is part of a chain of three lakes: Sabakty itself (also known as Chebachye), Karabalykty (Linevoye), and the largest and best known, Yakty-Kul, more often calle

Foundation Stone of Orenburg

Russia, Orenburg

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The stele erected to mark the founding of the city of Orenburg in 1743 is a two-metre granite stone with gold lettering showing this historical date. The monument stands at the intersection of the pedestrian Sovetskaya Street and Krasnoznamyonnaya Street, and its open access makes it easy to see and

Blue Mosque (Kazan)

Russia, City of Kazan

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The Blue Mosque, also known as the Fourth Cathedral Mosque (Zängär mächet in Tatar), is a working mosque in Kazan and a monument of early 19th-century Tatar religious architecture. It stands in the Old Tatar Sloboda on Sary Sadykova Street, close to Yunusovskaya Square, and is one of the main histor

Azimov Mosque (Kazan)

Russia, City of Kazan

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The Azimov Mosque, also called the Sixth Cathedral Mosque or the Factory Mosque, is a working mosque in Kazan, in the Novo-Tatar Sloboda of the Vakhitovsky district, at 15 Fatkullina Street. Its stone building of 1887–1890 with a 51-metre minaret is a landmark of Tatar religious architecture and one

House of Entertaining Science and Technology (Kazan)

Russia, City of Kazan

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The House of Entertaining Science and Technology is an interactive science museum in Kazan, at 91 Gabdulla Tukay Street. It was the first science centre of its kind in the Republic of Tatarstan and is one of the largest interactive science and technology centres in Russia for children, young people

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Northeast Tower of the Kazan Kremlin

Russia, City of Kazan

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The Northeast Tower of the Kazan Kremlin is the remains of a round white-stone fortress tower from the late 17th century in the northeast corner of the Kremlin walls in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan. It stood on the upper terrace of the Kremlin hill above today's Baturin Street; what survives is a co

Millennium Bridge (Kazan)

Russia, City of Kazan

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The Millennium Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Kazanka River in Kazan, linking Vishnevsky Street with Amirkhan Avenue as part of the Small Kazan Ring Road. The crossing is 1,524 metres long. Construction began in 2004: the first stage opened in 2005, and the second was completed in 2007. O

Lenin House-Museum (Kazan)

Russia, City of Kazan

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The Lenin House-Museum in Kazan is a memorial museum in the historic centre of the city, at 58 Ulyanova-Lenina Street. It occupies the Orlov house, where the Ulyanov family lived from September 1888 to May 1889, and tells the story of Vladimir Ulyanov's years in Kazan. It is a branch of the National

Gambit Singing Fountain (Kazan)

Russia, City of Kazan

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The Gambit singing fountain in Gorky Park in Kazan is one of the most popular spots for both locals and tourists. It was built during the park's renovation, after years of disrepair: in 2014 the park gained walking paths, benches and this light-and-music fountain shaped like a chessboard, where each

Arbuzov House Museum (Kazan)

Russia, City of Kazan

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The House Museum of Academicians A. E. and B. A. Arbuzov is a memorial museum in the historic centre of Kazan, on Katanovsky Lane near Butlerov Street. It belongs to the A. E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry of the Kazan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences and te

Fountain of Love (Kazan)

Russia, City of Kazan

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The Fountain of Love is a cast-iron fountain with two cupids in Lenin Garden, in the Vakhitovsky district of Kazan, off Dzerzhinsky Street in the historic centre of the capital of Tatarstan. Opened in 1894, it is considered the oldest surviving fountain in the city, and since 2018 it has been listed