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Blue Lake (Podlubovo)

Blue Lake (Bashkir: Zängär kül) is a small spring-fed lake in the Karmaskalinsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, by the village of Podlubovo, about 40 km south of Ufa as the crow flies. Since 2003 it has been protected as a hydrological natural monument of regional significanc

Mogak Waterfall

Mogak Waterfall is a cascading waterfall on the Mogak River in the Abzelilovsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, in the south-east of the republic near the village of Salavatovo. A mountain stream runs down from the Kryktytau Ridge over heaps of boulders and forms a chain of cascad

Gadelsha Falls

Gadelsha Falls is a protected hydrological natural monument in the Baymaksky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, about 25 km from the town of Sibay. It is considered the largest waterfall in Bashkortostan: the water drops over three steps with a total height of about 15–17 metres. Th

Voskresensky Copper Smelter

The Voskresensky Copper Smelter is a ruined 18th-century copper works, the oldest in the Southern Urals, in the village of Voskresenskoye, Meleuzovsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, on the Tor River. It was founded in 1745 by the merchant Ivan Borisovich Tverdyshev and smelted copper f

Cheese Stone (Sochi)

The Cheese Stone is a large sandstone boulder with a porous surface resembling a wheel of cheese, on the eastern slope of Mount Bytkha above the Shakaliny Rocks in the Khostinsky District of Sochi, Russia. The stone lies within the "Stone Chaos" tract, one of the most striking natural landmarks in t

Family Center "Kazan"

The Family Center "Kazan" (known locally as "the Bowl") is the main wedding palace (ZAGS) of Kazan and the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, built in the shape of a giant kazan — a traditional cast cauldron. It stands on the right bank of the Kazanka River, near the northern end of the Kremlin dam in t

Krasikovskaya Hydroelectric Power Station

Krasikovskaya Hydroelectric Power Station is a small hydroelectric plant on the Tok River near the village of Krasikovo in Krasnogvardeysky District, Orenburg Oblast, Russia, built by local collective farms in 1952-1953. The decision to build it was made in 1952 at a joint meeting of three collecti

Nos-Gora (Saraktashsky District)

Nos-Gora (also known by its Turkic name, Kurmain) is a ridge-shaped hill on the right bank of the Sakmara River in Saraktashsky District, Orenburg Oblast, Russia, near the village of Kondurovka. A cliff section exposed on the mountain is regarded as the stratotype of the Sakmarian Stage of the Permi

First Orenburg Power Plant

The First Orenburg Power Plant stands on the left bank of the Ural River, at 25/1 Naberezhnaya Street, Orenburg, Russia, and started operating on 28 January 1899 as the city's first power station. The building was built in the Neo-Romantic Art Nouveau style, with Gothic and Romantic decorative eleme

RTF-32 Radio Telescope (Zelenchukskaya Observatory)

The RTF-32 radio telescope is a radio-astronomy antenna with a 32-metre main dish at the Zelenchukskaya radio astronomical observatory of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAA RAS), in the settlement of Khusy-Kardonik, Zelenchuksky District, Karachay-Cherkessia,

Silicate Lakes (Lipetsk)

Silicate Lakes are the most popular spot among Lipetsk residents for swimming, fishing and walks: four lakes with clear spring water, formed in former quarries that supplied silicate sand to the Lipetsk Silicate Plant, in the Left Bank District of Lipetsk, Russia. Entry is free. The lakes lie betwee

Lake Elton

Lake Elton is the largest mineral lake in Europe by area, located in the Pallasovsky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, in the northern Caspian Depression, about 18 km from the border with Kazakhstan. It covers roughly 152 km² (18 by 14 km). Its depth ranges from 1.5 m in spring to just 5–10 cm b

Vuoksela Church

Vuoksela Church is a Lutheran church from the late 1920s on Cape Lammasniemi, 15 kilometers from the village of Losevo, in the Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, on the bank of the northern branch of the Vuoksa River (the Vuoksa-Virta). The Finnish village of Vuoksela once stood here a

Caravanserai (Orenburg)

The Caravanserai in Orenburg is a historical and architectural complex at 6 Parkovy Prospekt, built between 1837 and 1846 to a design by architect Alexander Bryullov, to house the office of the commander of the Bashkir-Meshcheryak army, a hostel, and schools for Bashkirs and Mishars. History Th

Sultan Waterfall (Syltran-su)

Sultan Waterfall (Syltran-su) is one of the tallest and most impressive waterfalls in the Dzhily-Su gorge, near the headwaters of the Malka River, in the Zolsky District of Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, on the northern slope of Mount Elbrus, just a few kilometers from its ice fields. The Malka River

Museum of Flight (Seattle)

The Museum of Flight is the world's largest private non-profit air and space museum, located in Tukwila, just south of Seattle, next to King County International Airport (Boeing Field). Its collection includes more than 175 aircraft and spacecraft, tens of thousands of artifacts, millions of rare ph

Dyatlov Pass

The site of the Dyatlov group's deaths is a mountain pass in the Northern Urals, between Kholat Syakhl (1,096.7 m) and an unnamed peak of 905 m, in the Ivdel Municipal District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Nine ski hikers led by Igor Dyatlov died here on the night of 2 February 1959. A tenth member

Dyatlov Group Graves (Yekaterinburg)

The graves of the Dyatlov group are spread across two cemeteries in Yekaterinburg. Seven of the nine hikers are buried at Mikhaylovskoye Cemetery (4 Blyukhera Street), where a memorial obelisk bears photographs of all nine who died. Two others — Yuri (Georgy) Krivonishchenko and Semyon (Alexander) Z

Memorial to the Totsky Nuclear Tests

The memorial at Totsky Range, in Russia's Orenburg Oblast, is a stele with bells that ring in memory of everyone affected by radiation there. It was erected in 1994 at the epicenter of the atomic bomb blast that shook the site on 14 September 1954, during the "Snezhok" ("Snowball") military exercise