Беседка у моря.Фотограф Влад Пасько |
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Between Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk is the village of Kabardinka. And in the village of Kabardinka there are mountains and the sea. And between the mountains and the sea, there is a small gazebo near the water.
Памятник воинам, погибшим в 1943 году при освобождении города Новороссийска был установлен около доро...
В левой части Цемесской бухты (если смотреть на море) возвышается гора Дооб. У её подножия расположен...
Сирень обыкновенная - общеизвестный кустарник. Цветки лилово-фиолетовые, разных оттенков, иногда белы...
on June 18, 1918, on the orders of Lenin in Tsemesskaya Bay were flooded combat ships of the black se...
18 июня 1980 года в 14 (или 12 везде по-разному написано) от Новороссийска (Цемесская бухта) был торж...
Этот снимок сделан межу Новороссийском, посёлком Кабардинкой, Кавказскими горами и морем. В хорошую п...
Stella at the road only talks about what lies ahead dirty, industrial city of Novorossiysk. But, gree...
Kabardinka's quay. August 2012.
The western slope of the mountain Bezumnaya. Markotkh ridge. August 2012.
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.