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Would you like to participate in an expedition aimed at examination of the Astrakhan region? Visual choice of an attractive spot carried out with the help of Google maps is followed by a car journey. The Big Brother Barkan is the highest in the Astrakhan region, up to 20m. How do you like the gallows? The Arabian toad-headed agama. |
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view Sands of the Astrakhan Barkan as presented by: English Russia |
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Pictures made during celebration of champagne birthday in Balaklava have been presented in another post. Beside that, a beauty contest was also on the list. Girls willing to take part in the contest posted their pictures in a Russian social net where 7 participants were chosen by Internet users. Over 50,000 of girls participated in the try-out. |
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view Choosing Miss Champagne as presented by: English Russia |
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The Kronotsky Nature Reserve holds unparalleled spectacles for even the most experienced travelers. There are warm waterfalls flowing down from rocks, groves of sea plants and noisy bird colonies on the coast, narrow paths with walls of giant grasses and flowers, magnificent volcanoes with steaming tops, deep river valleys and spectacular geysers. The fox got stuck in a fishing net left nearby and spent a lot of efforts trying to leave the area of fast approaching water. He was lucky to be found by people but not by bears. Tourists cut the rope on his neck but the fox couldn’t even stand. It crawled to the water to drink and then hid in a hole nearby where it was found next day. Why should people be so careless about throwing garbage around? Fishing nets which are left abandoned both at sea and on the coast kill many animals. Getting vet aid was impossible in this case. The fox couldn’t move, eat and drink. The nearest road is 100 km away from the place, a vet center is even further. Hiring a helicopter to take the fox to Petropavlovsk city will cost around 16000 USD. But no helicopters were available those days due to bad weather conditions. Even a human wouldn’t get a qualified aid if left there. So what could be done in that case is to hope for the best outcome for the fox and be more careful about the ecological situation in future. The fox could never survive. Its vixen continues raising 9 pups who are never hungry as the nearby waters are abundant with fishes. Unlike Alice, she is a good mother. Young pups are scared of people. Soon they will grow and understand that people who visit the Reserve are not dangerous at all. It’s a pity that animals staying in a place so rich with food have to die. |
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view Meanwhile In the Kronotsky Nature Reserve as presented by: English Russia |
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Some soldiers are not only good at military schooling but also at cooking. Today we’ll meet those of them who attend the military school house and become real professionals. The military cook house was created in 1961. Logisticians spend three months on becoming familiar with every detail of kitchenry. |
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view Cooking At The Battle Field as presented by: English Russia |
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For some reason inhabitants of Saint-Petersburg are all in a good mood and keep dancing the whole day. Enjoy great pictures of beautiful dancing people from a mighty Russian city. |
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A sex doll as a means of transportation! That was a slogan of the annual race on inflatable sex dolls that took place next to Saint-Petersburg on August 6. Over 800 people were willing to see how the dolls can swim. First it was necessary to choose a doll at the ‘warehouse’. The race was followed by another contest for the best name. Merry Boobs, Yellow BabMarine, Little Nurse, which one do you like more? |
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view Love Doll Race as presented by: English Russia |
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The Shukhov Tower is one of the world’s most beautiful and remarkable achievements of engineering. Despite the fact that the tower is an architectural monument, it doesn’t have access to tourists. It is located in a closed area, so to get there you’ll have to have great powers of persuasion. The Shukhov tower is a unique hyperboloid structure, designed in a form of a steel lattice shell. Located in Moscow. Built in 1920-1922. The author of the project is a great Russian engineer, an architect and a scientist, Vladimir Shukhov. The tower has been recognized as one of the most beautiful and remarkable achievements of engineering in the world. The round tapered body of the tower consists of 6 sections, each 25 meters high. The lower section is mounted on a concrete foundation base, 40 meters in diameter and 3 meters in depth. The elements of the tower are riveted together. What is interesting, the tower was being built without using scaffolds and cranes. The upper sections were being assembled inside the lower one, lifted and put on each other. During more than 80 years the Shukhov Tower served as a support for large antennas of radio and television stations. |
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view Beautiful Moscow From The Shukhov Tower as presented by: English Russia |
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In 100 km from Moscow by the Kiev highway there is a wonderful museum of strategic rocket forces in the training center of SRF. In a huge hangar customers can admire almost the entire history of the Soviet rocket production from the P-2 to the Topol. However, there is one drawback: the museum is located at the military unit and therefore ordinary people are not allowed to come here, and inordinary are allowed, but still many things are forbidden to be photographed. A variety of cars SRF lined up in an open area. Of course, not without their “master” – the Topol. It is easy to distinguish a RT-2PM Topol from a Topol-M RT-2PM2 by wheels: a first modification has 7 pairs of wheels. The engines are assembled on the MAZ-7917-15U168 chassis. During the Soviet era the production of the Topol was made by many Soviet republics, now the Topol-M has only one foreign detail, it is a chassis brought from Belarus. A gyrocompass is the most secret thing. Previously, it was so secret that it was impossible even to look at the right side of a car. Now you can examine its side, but the compass is strictly covered. |
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view The Museum of Rocket Forces in Balabanovo as presented by: English Russia |
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