Abandoned Military Base 1
by Метик Сергей
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Remnants of a former Soviet military base near Orenburg. Structures are gradually dismantled, and building materials are taken away by local residents. Pano was shot on April, 28th 2011.
Remnants of a former Soviet military base near Orenburg. Structures are gradually dismantled, and bui...
Remnants of a former Soviet military base near Orenburg. Structures are gradually dismantled, and bui...
Ural is the third on extent river of Europe, concedes on this only to Volga and Danube. Sakmara is it...
Ural river in the beginning of autumn. Ural is the third on extent river of Europe, concedes on this ...
Ural is the third on extent river of Europe, concedes on this only to Volga and Danube. A favourite p...
The building of Orenburg railway station has been constructed in 1877 and now is recognized by an arc...
The street was named in 1926 in honor of a famous Soviet statesman and diplomat G. V. Chicherin (1872...
The once popular Lenin public garden now abandoned and trashed. Monument to Red Guards, fallen in the...
Monument to the fallen for the Soviet Native land in days of Civil and the Great Patriotic wars estab...
Expocenter of military armor "Salute, victory" on Kirov Street, named so in honor of famous Soviet st...
Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!
Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.
Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in Chita
Although you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.
Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).
The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.
Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)
After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.
Text by Steve Smith.
