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Nikolaevskoe Hillfort

Russia, Nikolaevka

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Nikolaevskoe Hillfort (Николаевское городище) is a Jurchen-era archaeological site in Primorsky Krai, in the Partizansky municipal district. It stands on the left bank of the Vodopadnaya River, a tributary of the Partizanskaya River (formerly the Suchan), about 200 metres north of the village of Nik

Tyukonkhi in the village of Sadovniki

Russia, Yablochnoe

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On the outskirts of Sadovniki, a village in the Kholmsk municipal district of Sakhalin Oblast, stands a stone stele about 1.7 metres tall on a rubble-concrete base — a memorial stone from the Japanese period known as a tyukonkhi. It can be seen from the parking lot by the local beach, though reachin

Shoana Church

Russia, Imeni Kosta Khetagurova

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Shoana Church stands on the southeastern spur of Mount Shoana, on the left bank of the Kuban River, next to the village named after Kosta Khetagurov in the Karachayevsky District of Karachay-Cherkessia. Its white walls are visible from afar from the A155 highway, the road tourists take toward Dombay

Resurrection Church

Russia, Tomsk

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The Resurrection Church (Voskresenskaya tserkov) stands in Tomsk on Resurrection Hill, in the oldest, protected part of the city, at Oktyabrsky vzvoz 10. The church gave its name to the hill where the Tomsk fort once stood, and it remains one of the symbols of Tomsk's historic centre. History T

Mount Nakas

Russia, Tyulganskiy rayon

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Mount Nakas is the highest point of Orenburg Oblast, standing 667.6 meters above sea level. It lies in the Tyulgansky District, 5.5 km west of the village of Almala, and forms part of the Maly Nakas ridge, a low hill-and-ridge massif between the Salmysh and Bolshoy Ik rivers. The ridge sits in the n

Kipyashchy Klyuch (Boiling Spring)

Russia, Satkinskiy rayon

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Kipyashchy Klyuch, or the Boiling Spring, is a natural spring inside Zyuratkul National Park in the Satka municipal district of Chelyabinsk Oblast. It lies at the foot of the Moskal ridge, just a few dozen meters from the Bolshaya Kalagaza River. The spring got its name from a distinctive feature: l

Filippovsky Bay and Matveev Rock

Russia, Russky

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Filippovsky Bay lies on the western shore of Russky Island, within the Vladivostok city district of Primorsky Krai, between Cape Vasilyeva and Rynda Bay. Facing it, about 540 meters from the shore, a small sea stack called Matveev Rock rises from the Amur Bay — roughly 36 meters long and 12 meters w

Verkh-Koyonsky Grotto

Russia, Iskitimsky District

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Verkh-Koyonsky Grotto, also known as Koyonsky Grotto, is a karst niche in the Iskitimsky district of Novosibirsk Oblast, on the slope above the Bryushikha brook. The nearest settlement is the village of Verkh-Koyon, about two kilometers away; the settlement of Gorny lies four to five kilometers off.

Udobnaya Bay

Russia, Terneysky District

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Udobnaya Bay lies on the coast of the Sea of Japan in the Terneysky municipal district of Primorsky Krai, within the boundaries of the Sikhote-Alin State Nature Biosphere Reserve. The bay is bounded on two sides by capes Severny and Blagodatny, and its shoreline stretches for about three kilometres:

Karagaysky Quarry

Russia, Satka

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Karagaysky Quarry is a large magnesite deposit on Mount Karagay, within the town of Satka, Chelyabinsk Region. The quarry has been worked since the early 20th century and remains one of the main industrial sites in the Satka district. History The magnesite deposit at Mount Karagay and the villag

Lake Oyskoye

Russia, Yermakovsky Rayon

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Oyskoye Lake is a high-altitude lake in the Western Sayan Mountains, inside the Ergaki natural park in the Yermakovsky district of Krasnoyarsk Krai. It lies on the eastern edge of the Kulumys ridge at an elevation of 1,416 meters above sea level, right next to the federal highway R-257 "Yenisei". Th

Dzhasai Woods

Russia, Adamovskiy rayon

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Dzhasai Woods (Dzhasayskie Leski) is a small aspen grove in the Adamovsky district of Orenburg Oblast, protected as a regional nature monument. It stands on a plateau-like watershed between the Kumak and Tobol rivers, at an altitude of nearly 400 meters above sea level, 2.5 km northeast of the villa

Memorial Plaque to Sergei Bodrov

Russia, Prigorodnyy District

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The memorial plaque to Sergei Bodrov stands on a rock by the road in Karmadon Gorge, in the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, about 25 km from Vladikavkaz. It is a grassroots memorial to actor and director Sergei Bodrov Jr. and the members of his film crew, who died here i