The Big Bikini Exibition
van Andrey Ilyin
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The long cold winter and equally long dull spring make Moscovites thirsty for sunlight. Thanks to the extremely hot last week of May it was possible to sunbath without the risk of frostbite.
This popular beach is located in Serebryany Bor (Silver Pine tree Forest), an artificial island formed by the loop of Moscow river and the straightening boat channel.
Picturesque Bridge (Bridge in Silverpine Forest) - cable-stayed bridge across the Moscow River, is lo...
Picturesque Bridge (Bridge in Silverpine Forest) - cable-stayed bridge across the Moscow River, is lo...
Качество сборки пострадало из за большого колическва снимков, сделанных мыльницой. Трудно найти контр...
One of the biggest Moscow developers, "Donstroy", established these supercar races. The race starts n...
Moscow is crazy about expensive shiny cars. Good if it is Hummer with totally black windows (what doe...
Moscow is crazy about expensive shiny cars. Good if it is a Hummer with totally black windows (what d...
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.
