Orenburg Dom Byta
by metik-sergey
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The Saving bank (directly opposite) and Dom Byta to the right (The House of Consumer Services, the name remained from initial appointment) on Volodarskogo Street. It's a shopping center now. On September, 23rd 2011.
The main entrance of Central market at a crossroad of Volodarskogo and 8 Marta streets. The streets h...
The main street of Orenburg in the very beginning of winter. Now only for pedestrians. Any automobile...
The center of Orenburg in beginning of winter. The Government House more often named as Dom Sovetov (...
Trading House Voskhod and Musical Comedy Theater in Orenburg. Crossroad of Valentina Tereshkova Str.,...
Monument to the victims of White Cossacks raid on the night of April 4, 1918. The Cossacks killed 1...
Sovetskay is the main street of Orenburg. Now only for pedestrians. Any automobile movement is forbid...
Orenburg City Administration building on Sovetskaya St. The building was constructed in 1914 - 1916 y...
Avenue of Heroes, a part of the architectural and sculptural ensemble "Kind Angel of Peace", opened o...
Monument to Vasily Perovsky (1795-1857), in 1832-42 and 1851-57 the Governor-General of Orenburg p...
Park "Topolya" (Poplars) is a favourite vacation spot of townspeople. A Monument of Musa Dzhalil the ...
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.
