Фонтан на площади Труда в городе Иркутске/The fountain in the square of Labor in the city of Irkutsk
Lenin Square, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, Siberia, Russian Federation, Asia
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870–21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism. Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in a RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Encouraging insurrection during Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he later campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime. Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty with the Central Powers and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations secured independence after 1917, but three re-united with Russia through the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. In increasingly poor health, Lenin expressed opposition to the growing power of his successor, Joseph Stalin, before dying at his dacha in Gorki. Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. He became an ideological figurehead behind Marxism–Leninism and thus a prominent influence over the international communist movement. A controversial and highly divisive individual, Lenin is viewed by supporters as a champion of socialism and the working class, while critics on both the left and right emphasize his role as founder and leader of an authoritarian regime responsible for political repression and mass killings.
The VodkaTrain
My brother and I got drunk and decided to take the Trans Siberian railway from Moscow to Beijing, aboard the VodkaTrain.
On the way we had an amazing time, met lots of people and drank a hell a lot of vodka. Sadly we lost 30 video's when one of the camera's corrupted. But otherwise this 6minutes sums up our 3 weeks!!
Fountain on Angara River, Irkutsk
On my last day in Irkutsk, I enjoy a dusk walk around the Angara River, buy some Kvas and dream of future Russian trips to come...
[歐洲篇] 做個西伯利亞笑旅 Trans-Siberian Railway
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從英國陸路走到愛沙尼亞既仲夏節後, 決定穿越西伯利亞前往蒙古既那達慕大會. 香港護照仲可以有14日俄羅斯免簽證, 足夠有餘由聖彼得堡走到貝加爾湖!
How to get from Baltic Midsummer to Nadaam Festival in Mongolia? For me, I chose to take the Trans Siberian Railway across Russia without paying for an extra visa with my Hong Kong passport.
- 聖彼得堡
- 莫斯科
- Kazan 喀山
- Krasnoyarsk 克拉斯諾亞爾斯克
- Irkutsk & Lake Baikal 伊爾庫茨克市及貝加爾湖
- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 烏蘭巴托, 蒙古國
Rehab centre in Russia says hard work is the best cure for addicts
St Petersburg, Russia, September 14th September 2008
1. Peter and Paul Fortress from across the Neva river
2. People walking on Winter Palace Square
3. People dressed in tsarist costumes
St Petersburg, Russia, September 15th 2008
4. Inmates eating in hall
5. Cook ladles soup into bowl
6. Varios inmates eating
7. Set up Alexei Fomichev
8. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexei Fomichev, Deputy Director New Life:
It's the rehabilitation and renewal of their personality. When a person is cut off from their habits for a year and put in a closed space where they can rethink their life, how they lived before and how they will live from now on, that year will change them. Their behaviour will change, their mentality will change, their life will change and that's why we call this place A New Life.
9. Gates at entrance to site
10. Barracks
11. Windows
12. Pull up bunk beds in room
13. Bed
14. Building
15. Workers mix cement
16. Cement mixer
17. Set up Alexander Kruglov at cement mixer
18. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexander Kruglov, Patient:
Everything happened quickly and I ended up here, although I really didn't want to come, but I ended up here because of various circumstances and I don't now regret it.
19. Puts sand into mixer
20. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexander Kruglov, Patient:
I don't need any of that any more. I'm a new person now. I'm thinking properly again, my head is clear and I don't need any of that dirt any more.
21. Set up Yulia Pavlova walks among sheep
22. Sheep in field
23. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yulia Pavlova, Volunteer and Former Addict:
At school you can get wine and marijuana and some other stuff, in discos you can get pills. Young people have a lot to choose from these days. And then there's heroin. For the last three years I was a heroin user.
24. Yulia with sheep
25. Sheep moving from field
26. Sheep move towards building
27. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yulia Pavlova, Volunteer and Former Addict:
I wanted to help. To show them by my own example - 'Look how I'm living now here. I have a family and work and don't use drugs'. I couldn't just go off and live a quiet life, I wanted to help people get themselves of this evil and terrible addiction.
St Petersburg, Russia, September 14th September 2008
28. Woman enters City Narcological Hospital
29. Close up sign
30. Set up Dr Viktor Grigoriyev
31. Mid-shot set up
32. Medical papers
33. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Dr Viktor Grigoriyev, Deputy Head, City Narcological Hospital:
You can't launch into labour therapy with a person who is sick, who hasn't recovered his basic health. He can't even get out of bed let alone start labour therapy. To force a person into work when he's in such a condition is, at the very least, inhumane.
St Petersburg, Russia, September 15th 2008
34. Set up Kirill Tarasov
35. Piglets feeding
36. Pig and piglets
37. Set up Kirill
38. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Kirill Tarasov, Patient:
In her last letter my mum wrote that she's proud of me. I was in shock. I haven't heard her say that for 7 years. I've been taking drugs for 10 years and have said no more to her than hi and see you later. To hear such words from my mum was a real joy.
39. Pull out Kirill with pig
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Drug addiction was almost unheard of in Russia before the fall of the Soviet Union.
But as borders opened and the Russian economy collapsed, the country was flooded with illicit drugs.
Now Russia has as many as 6 million drug addicts. The government has tried a variety of programmes to cure them, but with little success.
But in St Petersburg one clinic claims it has come up with the answer - simple, honest labour.
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The capital of Tsarist Russia has now become modern Russia's drug capital.
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RUSSIA: RED OCTOBER CHOCOLATE FACTORY
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The Russian stock exchange is witnessing its biggest single share issue since the fall of communism.
Red October, Russia's largest and oldest chocolate factory, began a major share issue Monday that experts say will revolutionise the Russian stock market.
Over the next two weeks, the factory will sell 22 (m) million US dollars in shares - all for cash.
Set in the heart of Moscow, the Red October chocolate factory is something of a national institution.
It was set up 127 years ago by a German company and became suppliers of chocolates to the Tsar.
It was nationalised after the October Revolution.
But now with competition from Western chocolate companies, its monopoly has gone and Red October needs the income generated by the share offer.
SOUNDBITE: (RUSSIAN -21')
Our first task will be to increase our capital the lack of which is a constant factor. Of course we will use that capital to modernise the machinery, replace the old and buy new equipment to increase output.
SUPER CAPTION: Konstantin Vityenuk - chief Red October confectionery department
The factory's three-thousand employees produce over 59-thousand tons of sweets and 250 brands each year.
It is one of the best known companies in Russia and it hopes that reputation will attract investors from home and abroad.
The firm in charge of the share offer is convinced that Red October represents a sound investment.
SOUNDBITE: (RUSSIAN -19')
The investor gets a reliable and safe investment, something which no other company can guarantee. For every share they get a part of the factory so it's understood that it is not just a blank piece of paper.
SUPER CAPTION: Tatyana Nikulshina - Grant Financial Group.
The factory has also launched a spirited advertising campaign, using television to entice investors.
However, you only need to look at any street corner to see what Red October is up against.
Over the past couple of years, Western imports have flooded the Russian market and are proving popular with the public.
SOUNDBITE: (RUSSIAN - 17')
We didn't have them when I was young. Now we have such a large selection. We can choose our Soviet chocolates or imported ones..I prefer foreign chocolates,
especially milk.
SUPER CAPTION: Cashier
And the choice is huge.
Despite Red October's prodigious output, it cannot rival foreign brands and is facing an uphill task with the younger generation.
SOUNDBITE: (RUSSIAN -11')
I like foreign chocolates best. They're tasty, they've got nuts and different types of
chocolate cream.
SUPER CAPTION: VOX POP
In the past, the Red October factory lived off its association with the Revolution, but for today's children that has no meaning.
So it will be in the taste buds and not the minds of Russia's children that the chocolate war will be fought.
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An evening rehearsal for the 2019 Moscow Victory Day Parade is held in Moscow's Tverskaya and Red Square on Monday April 29.
A hundred and thirty units of modern arms and military equipment, thirty five parade calculation of foot columns and more than thirteen thousand soldiers will take part in the rehearsal ceremonies.
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Beautiful,Wild & Cold Siberia
Siberia (Sibir-Сиби́рь) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia. Siberia has historically been a part of Russia since the 16th and 17th centuries.
The territory of Siberia extends eastwards from the Ural Mountains to the watershed between the Pacific and Arctic drainage basins. The Yenisei River conditionally divides Siberia into five parts, Western and Eastern. Siberia stretches southwards from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan and to the national borders of Mongolia and China.[1] With an area of 13.1 million square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), Siberia accounts for 77% of Russia's land area, but it is home to just 40 million people—27% of the country's population. This is equivalent to an average population density of about 3 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.8/sq mi) (approximately equal to that of Australia), making Siberia one of the most sparsely populated regions on Earth. If it were a country by itself, it would still be the largest country in area, but in population it would be the world's 35th-largest and Asia's 14th-largest.
Worldwide, Siberia is well known primarily for its long, harsh winters, with a January average of −25 °C (−13 °F), as well as its extensive history of use by Russian and Soviet administrations as a place for prisons, labor camps, and exile.
Russia: Siberian forest fire extinguished with mine clearing missiles
A forest fire in the Irkutsk region of Russia was extinguished on Tuesday with the help of two UR-77 Meteorit mine clearing vehicles. The systems fire missiles which burn out oxygen upon detonation and therefore limit the capacity of fires to spread.
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Manzhouli(21) 満州里
2015.1.30
1 may in Novosibirsk Russia
1 may in Novosibirsk Russia
Новости нашего района: сквер имени Кирова
Её называли Кремлёвской, Тихвинской, Гостинодворской. Но большинству горожан главная площадь Иркутска известна как сквер имени Кирова. Как он изменился за свою трёхсотлетнюю историю, расскажем в рубрике «Новости нашего района». Знакомый и в то же время такой неизвестный. Сквер Кирова в Иркутске - это целый ансамбль строений с уникальной историей. С 1670 года многое здесь поменялось, но только не значимость для горожан этого архитектурного оркестра. В 18 веке первой скрипкой оркестра была Тихвинская церковь. В 1932 году она была разобрана большевиками. Но, как показала история, свято место пусто не бывает. И уже сразу после войны в архитектурном оркестре появился новый инструмент. Здание «Востсибугля». Сейчас отсюда и начинается сквер. За всю историю площади в оркестре было два главных солиста. Первый - Кафедральный собор, построенный в 1894 году и ставший одним из самых больших в России. Однако судьба его оказалась трагической. Собор был взорван, а его фрагменты разбросаны по всей площади. За счёт этого сквер стал выше на целый метр. Вторым солистом стал Дом советов, построенный на том же месте и выступающий до сих пор. Кстати, именно отсюда начинается оркестровая яма в виде подземных ходов, которые до сих пор сохранились.
ЕВГЕНИЙ ШОЕВ, корреспондент: «С 1960 года в самом сердце сквера Кирова появился фонтан. Построили его к приезду в Иркутск американского президента Эйзенхауэра. Из-за очередного охлаждения советско-американских отношений визит так и не состоялся. Но это и не главное. Ведь уже более 50 лет фонтан украшает этот совсем не «скверный» оркестр». В конце 70-х годов прошлого века в оркестре появился уникальный инструмент. Смесь клавесина и арфы. Здание на ногах - так прозвали его слушатели. По замыслу дирижёра оно должно было стать пристройкой к городской администрации. Однако за несколько десятилетий настройки его финальный аккорд так никто и не услышал.
Каждое столетие привносило свои черты в этот архитектурный ансамбль. Каким станет оркестр через десятилетия, сейчас никому не известно. Да и не важно, ведь главное - чтобы его исторический репертуар остался прежним.
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The Extreme North or Far North (Russian: Крайний Север, Дальний Север) is a large part of Russia located mainly north of the Arctic Circle and boasting enormous mineral and natural resources. Its total area is about 5,500,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi), comprising about one-third of Russia's total area. Formally, the regions of the Extreme North comprise the whole of Yakutia, Magadan Oblast, Kamchatka Krai and Murmansk Oblast, as well as certain parts and cities of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Komi Republic, Tyumen Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, as well as all islands of the Arctic Ocean, its seas, the Bering Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk.
Due to the harsh conditions of the area, people who work there have traditionally been entitled by the Russian government to higher wages than workers of other regions. As a result of the climate and environment, the indigenous peoples of the area have developed certain genetic differences that allow them to better cope with the region's environment, as do their cultures.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with trade union leaders of the BRICS countries at the BRICS summit in Ufa, Thursday.
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Фонтан в Иркутске
танцующий фонтан в Иркутске
Vladivostok central square