Orenburg Tsentralnaya Str
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Tsentralnaya (Central) street in a southern district of Orenburg, Yuzhny posyolok (Southern settlement). An early autumn. 5.30 p. m. On September, 9th, 2011.
A monument to legendary Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov on boulevard Belovka. Ural river is considered as...
One of the favourite places for townsfolk to stroll by in the evenings. The Monument to A. S. Pushkin...
Ural river near Orenburg. The past summer was extraordinary hot and so the winter doesn't hurry up wi...
At a crossroad of Maksim Gorky and Sovetskaya streets of Orenburg in the morning. The street is named...
The street was named in 1926 in honor of a famous Soviet statesman and diplomat G. V. Chicherin (1872...
The main street of Orenburg - Sovetskaya. Now only for pedestrians. Any automobile movement is forbid...
Monument to the fallen for the Soviet Native land in days of Civil and the Great Patriotic wars estab...
The Orenburg dramatic theater was opened in autumn of 1856. In 1932 it was named after great Soviet w...
The main street of Orenburg - Sovetskaya. Now only for pedestrians. Any automobile movement is forbid...
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.
