At Kurala river source
by Метик Сергей
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At Kurala river source near the former settlement Prokhladny. The river channel has dried up. Pano was shot at 5.20 p. m. on 30th of August, 2011
Urochische (natural boundary) Prokhladny at Kurala river source. There was a settlement Prokhladny in...
Ravine Belaya Glina (White Clay) running into small river Kurala near former settlement Prokhladny. L...
The natural boundary "Sacred stone" (mountain Aleutas) is located in 2 km. to the north from the form...
Mibulakskiy brook and destroyed dam. One can see mountains Meltau to the South and Bazarbay with a gr...
View on steppe from Meltau mountain in Akbulaksky rayon (territorial administrative unit) of Orenburg...
View from a hill on steppe and Itchashkan small river. There's a triangulation mark on the top for al...
Picturesque birch and aspen groves on hill slopes in Akbulaksky rayon (administrative territorial uni...
View from a hill on steppe and Itchashkan small river in the end of dry summer. On a border of Sol-Il...
View from a hill on steppe and Itchashkan small river in the end of dry summer. Near a border of Sol-...
View on steppe in the end of summer. Outputs of Сretaceous deposits can be seen to the North-East. It...
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.
