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Mount Landor rises 640 meters in the Ayano-Maysky district of Khabarovsk Krai, on the Nongdar-Negotni peninsula, next to the village of Ayan, the administrative center of the district on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, in the far northeast of Khabarovsk Krai. Geology The mountain is built of r
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The tailings storage near the settlement of Fabrichny (Fabrichny, Khvostokhranilishche) is an abandoned industrial site in the Kavalerovsky municipal district of Primorsky Krai, several hours' drive from Vladivostok. It is a complex of settling ponds and waste dumps that once held the ore-processing
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The Panagia tract (Urochishche Panagiya) lies in the Yalta district of the Republic of Crimea, near the village of Zelenogorye, about 17 km from Sudak. In a narrow mountain gorge here lies Lake Panagia, and the Arpat waterfalls begin — a modest landmark sought out both as a natural site and as a pla
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Khram Vorota (Temple Gate) is a rock arch on the western slope of Mount Alkhanai, inside Alkhanai National Park in Zabaykalsky Krai (Duldurginsky municipal district). The outcrop stands at an altitude of about 1,100–1,155 meters, 250 meters from a stone chapel, on the steep left side of the Ubzhogoy
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The Stolbovskie thermal springs lie on the western coast of Kunashir Island, in the Yuzhno-Kurilsky municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast, about two kilometers south of Cape Stolbchaty. They are one of the island's thermal outlets, part of a geothermal system linked to the nearby Mendeleev and Tyaty
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Imperatorskaya Mountain (Gora Imperatorskaya, literally "Imperial Mountain") is a 92-metre summit on the Boylya (Boyan) peninsula in the Korsakovsky district of Sakhalin Oblast, west of the village of Okhotskoye. It stands on a narrow strip of land between two large lakes of southern Sakhalin, Sedyk
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Donguzskaya Steppe (Донгузская степь) is the largest surviving tract of virgin, never-ploughed forb-fescue-feather-grass steppe in Eurasia. It lies in Orenburg Oblast, split between Orenburgsky and Sol-Iletsky districts, about 15 km south of the city of Orenburg. The tract covers the Ural-Ilek inter
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Kapkatash Rock, also known as the Stone Gate (Kamennye Vorota), is a natural arch through a limestone cliff on the right bank of the Ai River, in the Lasyntash tract, a mile and a half from the village of Lakly in the Salavatsky district of Bashkortostan. Nearby, within a few kilometers, lie the Sik
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Dzhumalinskiye Springs, also known as Teply Klyuch (Warm Spring), is a group of thermal springs in the Altai Mountains, in the Kosh-Agach district of the Altai Republic. They lie in the valley of the Dzhumaly River at an elevation of about 2,400 meters, 70-100 km southeast of the village of Kosh-Aga
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The Atlasov Lighthouse stands on Atlasov Island (formerly known as Alaid), part of the Severo-Kurilsky municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast. It is the northernmost island of the Greater Kuril Chain — essentially the above-water part of the Alaid volcano, which rises 2,339 meters and is the tallest
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Komarov Hill (Сопка Комарова) is one of the hills within the city of Vladivostok, the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, on the shore of the Sea of Japan. It rises 231 meters above sea level in the Zeleny Ugol neighborhood, between Ladygin Street and Admiral Kuznetsov Street, within Vladivosto
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Mendeleev Volcano (Vulkan Mendeleeva) is an active stratovolcano with a central extrusive dome in the south of Kunashir Island, in the Yuzhno-Kurilsky municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast. It rises 886–888 meters and its cone sits inside a broad, ancient caldera. The nearest settlement is the villa
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The Kurbatov Cape lighthouse stands at the northernmost point of Shumshu Island — and therefore of the entire Kuril chain — on the First Kuril Strait, at the western edge of the Sea of Okhotsk. Administratively the cape belongs to the Severo-Kurilsk municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast. The lig
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Shepalova Bay lies on the southern coast of Primorsky Krai, in the Partizansky municipal district, near Cape Povorotny, close to the village of Vrangel and the city of Nakhodka, about 30 kilometers away along the road through the port of Vostochny. History The bay is first mentioned in 1854, wh
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Dragon Eggs Shore (Берег Драконьи яйца), also known as Dragon's Eggs Beach or Dragon's Eye, is a stretch of the Barents Sea coast near the village of Teriberka in the Kolsky municipal district of Murmansk Oblast. The roughly 500-metre shoreline is part of the Teriberka nature park; instead of sand i
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Primorskoye Lake is an artificial body of water in the Nakhodka urban okrug of Primorsky Krai, on the shore of Peter the Great Gulf, the largest gulf of the Sea of Japan. The shallow lake, about 40 hectares in area, is linked to Prozrachnaya Bay by a narrow channel. Locals have long called it the Na
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The Kalyazin Bell Tower, also known as the Bell Tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral, stands on a small artificial island in the middle of the Uglich Reservoir in the Tver Region, by the town of Kalyazin in the Kalyazinsky municipal district. It is the only structure left from the old part of the town, w
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Lesnoye Lake (Russian: Озеро Лесное) lies in the Tomari urban district of Sakhalin Oblast, southeast of the village of Krasnogorsk, about half a kilometer from the shore of the Tatar Strait. The lagoon-origin lake stretches from west to east: it is roughly 793 meters long, up to 287 meters wide, wit
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A pedestrian suspension bridge over the Mrassu River in the village of Ust-Kabyrza, Tashtagol municipal district, Kemerovo Region. The bridge links the old and new parts of the village, which stands at the confluence of three rivers — the Mrassu, the Kabyrza and the Pyzas — in Gornaya Shoria, within
