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Photo Monument to cats on Small Garden Street

Vladimir Petrovichev brought to life the idea of historian Sergei Lebedev and created a couple of sculptures of a cat and a cat on …

Photo Alley of Outstanding Smolians

Very often, tourists come to me and ask which of the great Smolensk you can call the most famous. I say I'm much more open. On Smo …

Photo Monument to the Blockade Sticker in Kronstadt

There is a small fish - spine, it is worth noting - not to be confused with smelt. It belongs to the family of fish of the barbed …

Photo The house of Budnikov merchant

In our city - the hero of Smolensk we can see the most unusual houses and visit the most mysterious places in the city. Like the h …

Photo Monument to Chizhik-Pyzhik in St. Petersburg

Surely not everyone knows that the name Chizhik-Pyzhik in St. Petersburg appeared in the 19th century. The fact is that in 1835 th …

Photo The house of the merchant Pavlov

The house of the merchant PavlovArchitecture, time, history, excursionThe building you see in the photo is very interesting from t …

Photo Monument to Peter I on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

In the Peter and Paul Fortress, next to the cathedral, there is a monument to Peter I created by sculptor Mikhail Shemyakin. From …

Photo Monument to M. Glinka

Monument to M.I. Glinka - History, monuments, heritageIn Smolensk, very interesting and unusual monuments, for example, the monume …

Photo Early Paleolithic - the time of settlement of the Urals

Approximately. About 300,000 years ago it began. Human penetration into the Urals. The most. Ancient tools were found in the parki …

Photo Smolensk Fortress Wall

Smolensk fortress wall - History, architecture, heritageThe history of the Smolensk Fortress Wall is very unusual, unique, and not …

Photo Journey through the Russian Baltic

Amber, Svetlogorsk and not only ...Excursion by car, walking. The Baltic coast of the Kaliningrad region can be safely called an a …

Photo Trip to Akkem

March to Akkem (July 2010).This campaign took place in July 2010. Since the winter began to correspond with the group, discussed o …

Photo Excursions to the cities of the Golden Ring

Good day! If you have not been in the city of churches, then I invite you to Yaroslavl. And if you add the history of the cities a …

Photo Journey through Vladimir

I thought for a long time whether to write this review, and then decided that our ruins are less interesting than the ruins of for …

Photo Smolensk One of the oldest cities in Russia!

Smolensk One of the oldest cities in Russia, has the title “Hero City” (since May 6, 1985), was awarded the Order of Lenin and the …

Photo Nature doesn't have bad weather. A trip to the Demidov patrimony

When the rain and the Ural dampness are not a hindrance. On September 9, they walked in the rain in Nizhny Tagil with tourists fro …

Photo A relic right under your nose!

Once, when breakfast was over long ago, and lunch did not even think to begin, we decided to climb into some distant corner, away …

Photo Museum of the History of Stone Cutting and Jewelry Art

Yekaterinburg. What to see? Museum of stone carving and jewelry art with emerald room. The stone-cutting factory in the Urals w …

Photo Where the eyes look

(Places of natural and man-made wonders of Nizhny Novgorod) Ah, how nice it is once a year or two (this is very lucky), packing s …

Photo The funniest question during the tour

The strangest question during the tour was from a romantic French couple (ages 82 and 86), and it concerned the Mistress of the Co …

Photo Public history video blog about Novosibirsk Top NSK

Top NSK is the first and only public history video blog about Novosibirsk: https://wwwyoutube.com/c/TopNSK blog From the author o …

Photo Mount Akhun

The dominant height in the vicinity of the city of Sochi is Mount Akhun, 663 meters at sea level. The mountain has two peaks. On …

Photo Usvinsky pillars Perm Krai

On Sunday 23.02.2018 she went to conquer a new route. We drove with friends in Usva to the railway bridge in the car. Further alon …

Photo New Year holidays in Suzdal

Have you been to Suzdal for the New Year? Nope? This has to be fixed!!! Muscovites have long realized that Suzdal is not as far a …

Photo Kazan Chalet on the Second Mountain.

Kazan Chalet, house on the street. 42 Volkova.   Volkov Street was called the Second Mountain until 1927. The second moun …

Photo Vsevolodo-Vilva. Blue Lakes P. Quarry Limestone

The amazing museum of Boris Pasternak, which is located in the village of Vsevolodo-Vilva of the Perm Territory. The double name o …

Photo Inventor of television

Do you like watching television programs? If yes, then you will be interested to know that the inventor of television was born in …

Photo Belogorsk monastery

One of the most famous cultural and historical sights of the Perm Territory is the Belogorsk Monastery. It is often called the Ura …

Photo Khizar Yahyaev

Together with me you will be able to plunge into the world of interesting and unknown, drive and walk along unique mountain routes …

Photo Moscow

I never wanted to live in Moscow, but it was interesting to visit. The capital of our Mother Russia! I arrived in Moscow on bus …

Photo Diveyevo is the fourth provision of the Mother of God on earth

Diveyevo is the fourth provision of the Mother of God on earth. Who has not heard of St. Seraphim of Sarov. Diveevo is a place of …

Photo Cherdyn - the oldest capital of Perm Great

Leaving G. Perm in the early morning, go to Cherdyn - the ancient capital of Perm the Great, the oldest city of the Urals, a modes …

Photo Baikal. How to properly equip

Preparation of personal equipment and equipment for a day trip, multi-day tour or expedition is one of the most important prelimin …

Photo Usolye-Solikamsk-Orel

Walking around Solikamsk, the ancient salt capital of the Urals, we will be amazed at the many beautiful churches standing in the …

Photo Shiveluch Kamchatka

Journey to the Shiveluch volcano I want to tell you about our northern active volcano of Kamchatka, Shiveluch volcano. This giant …

Photo Five monasteries of Moscow

The trip began at 9:00 at the Leningradskaya Hotel (Sakharov Avenue at the very beginning at Kalanchevka) and ended at about 15:00 …

Photo World of Pereslavl Museums

Not Museums are called time keepers. Time runs, changes, changes. He goes away and takes it with him, irrevocably. But it leaves a …

Photo Nevyansk and style "Nevyansk Icon"

The glory of the Nevyansk inclined tower of the Demidovs is already well known. I want to tell and show a little another bright at …

Photo About the kettle museum in Pereslavl

How much do you know about such an irreplaceable It is like a kettle, and which of them, apart from modern ones, you still have. H …

Photo Kurai, a folk Tatar instrument.

In the poem of Gabdulla Tukay “Mother’s Prayer” sounds kuray, this is a folk Tatar instrument resembling a flute, a whirstle. Tran …

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