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The main street of Orenburg - Sovetskaya. Now only for pedestrians. Any automobile movement is forbid...
The main street of Orenburg - Sovetskaya. Now only for pedestrians. Any automobile movement is forbid...
The Orenburg dramatic theater was opened in autumn of 1856. In 1932 it was named after great Soviet w...
Sovetskay is the main street of Orenburg. Now only for pedestrians. Any automobile movement is forbid...
At a crossroad of Maksim Gorky and Sovetskaya streets of Orenburg in the morning. The street is named...
The main street of Orenburg in the very beginning of winter. Now only for pedestrians. Any automobile...
One of the favourite places for townsfolk to stroll by in the evenings. The Monument to A. S. Pushkin...
The Saving bank (directly opposite) and Dom Byta to the right (The House of Consumer Services, the na...
Monument to the fallen for the Soviet Native land in days of Civil and the Great Patriotic wars estab...
Expocenter of military armor "Salute, victory" on Kirov Street, named so in honor of famous Soviet st...
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.
