Tank Museum Yekaterinburg
My wife took this video in Yekaterinburg of a museum mainly dedicated to military vehicles.
Computer museum takes visitors back to the future
(14 Sep 2018) LEADIN
A Russian museum featuring retro computers from the 60s, 70s and 80s is taking visitors back to the future.
The Museum of Computers in Yekaterinburg has over 600 exhibits and features everything from floppy discs to interactive experiences.
STORYLINE
It looks like any office in the 1990s with a bank of bulky monitors and hard drives.
But this is the Museum of Computers in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg and it's taking visitors back in time.
Here, people can learn about the evolution of computers, get acquainted with old machines and technologies as well as play old games on some of the first machines.
While it may not seem that long ago, for some younger visitors playing games like Super Mario feels nostalgic.
Impressions are very strange, missed. This game is from my childhood, so I'm feeling nostalgia now, says visitor and computer student Maksim Abramov.
While computers and games are now a part of everyday life, the museum shows how far they have come in the past few decades.
Sergey Martyanov says the complex games of today only came about because of the pioneering work of the first creators, which gave an impetus to developing programming languages.
The first game was created in 1959 on the old computer with an oscilloscope screen, it was a space game: two spacecrafts flew on a simple oscilloscope screen as a monochrome image and shoot at each other. This was the first computer game, but in order for it to be played on a more modern computer, programmers of that time created not only a new operating system but also a programming language.
He says it is difficult to define the specific date of the start of computer history: there were ancient machines used for calculating thousands of years ago which could also be called computers.
In the USSR, the formal start of computer history is considered to be 1948 when Stalin signed a decree on the establishment of an institution engaged in the development of electronic computers - Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computing.
Contradictory to this, messages about cyber science being pseudoscience were widely promoted, most likely linked to the ideological war between the Soviet Union and the West.
Nevertheless, the first computer created in the USSR was made by professor Sergey Lebedev in the late 1940s.
Like most old computers it was very big in size. There were about 6,000 lamps in the computer, the lamps broke every 7-8 minutes and required a whole team of engineers to identify and fix the problem.
The Museum's collection started in 2013 and now has over 600 exhibits; many of those come from abroad, from USA, Japan, Germany and other European countries.
Many of the first Soviet computers were destroyed, so only parts of them survived, like the display of the first Soviet electronic machine M-1 produced in 1951 which is the oldest exhibit at the Museum.
The plan is now to reconstruct the rest of the machine so that the exhibit can become operational.
The development of computers is closely related to science fiction, according to the museum director Serge Martyanov.
A lot of fantasies of the sixties and seventies are now normal technology for us: we touched upon the theme of retro-futurism and represented the pictures of Russian science fiction writers of the sixties and seventies and our visitors recognised Skype, Internet and other things. What once seemed fantastic is now common technology.
Visitors are also taught about different data storage facilities of the time.
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Spectacular display of service vehicles that keep Moscow ticking
(16 Sep 2019) LEAD IN:
A juggernaut of city cleaning machines, transporters and emergency vehicles have flooded the streets of Moscow for the City Vehicles Parade.
Around 700 specialised machines were on display - ranging from 1920's fire engines to state of the art electric busses.
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They're not working today, they're just here for Muscovites to admire.
This parade is timed to coincide with celebrations for Moscow City Day and it's becoming a tradition.
This is already a good tradition. The first parade of the city vehicles with over 600 machines took place three years ago. That parade was very well remembered and much liked by Muscovites, that's why upon request of the Muscovites the city authorities took the decision to organise such a parade this year, says Pertr Biryukov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow on housing and communal services and improvement.
In 2016, the first City Vehicles Parade was included in the Russian Book of Records in the category The most massive parade of city vehicles.
Six-hundred and sixty-two machines and vehicles took part in that parade, but even this amount is just a fraction of the total number it takes to service a giant city like Moscow.
About forty-six and a half thousand machines work for the benefit of Muscovites. Communal services alone are provided by twenty-seven thousand machines ensuring non-stop operation of the city.
We see what machines operate in the streets. These are modern water cleaning machines with interchangeable equipment, these are vacuum cleaners. We don't see dust and dirt in the streets recently because the machines are on service, says Biryukov.
The parade presents all sorts of city vehicles - communal and cleaning equipment, cars of city repair and construction services, medical cars, public transport of all types, rescue and fire-fighting machines, exhibits of the Moscow Transport Museum, modern and retro cars.
Now our city is actively undertaking the job of switching over from internal combustion engines to electric drive, so that the ecology is much cleaner in the city, explains Biryukov.
Within this programme over 200 public electric transport units are carrying passengers along Moscow streets.
The electric bus operates on the principle of fast charging - at the terminal station, the electric bus is charged for 6-10 minutes, after which it continues the route.
Charging is enough for 40-50 kilometres.
What is interesting about electrobus is that here, I think there is nowhere else such a thing yet, we used to call for a fire brigade (in case of a fire), now we can simply push the button and we have the fire extinguishing system here, it is installed, says Larisa Shugaeva, driver of electrobus.
Curtains, we used to hang them, now you just push the button and they go up and down, it's very convenient and can be done while driving; you can tilt the bus on one side, there is such a button, if there is a disabled person, or an old person with a carriage, if you push it the car goes down, very convenient.
Indispensable for the life of a big city are motorcycles.
Quick and manoeuvrable, fire and rescue motorbikes are designed for prompt arrival in emergency situations, reconnaissance, evacuation of people, work on road accidents, and provision of first aid.
As experience has proved it is the best option for a big megalopolis, so you can get to the site quickly despite the traffic jams, says Aleksandr Tsybin, fireman-rescuer.
Museum of Traffic Police presented their retro cars too.
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The last sidecar motorcycle maker in Russia
(9 Dec 2017) LEADIN
There are very few sidecar motorcycle makers left in the world - but the last in Russia is still going strong in the small Urals city of Irbit.
Founded 75 years ago it has become successful again due to increased popularity of retro sidecars in the USA.
STORYLINE
They're an image that features on many vintage posters and in classic films.
The motorcycle sidecar was once a popular mode of transport but now few makers are left in the world.
The last one in Russia is based in the small Ural city of Irbit.
The factory was founded 75 years ago, when Stalin ordered the evacuation of a Moscow motorcycle plant ahead of WWII.
During the Soviet era, the Irbit factory produced more than 50 thousand heavy motorcycles in Ural annually. In the 1990s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and decline of the Russian economy, the factory faced serious problems. Demand for motorcycles declined sharply and the only way to survive was to find new markets.
Purchasing power of (Russian) population fell sharply (in the 1990s), and the number of motorcycles we have been producing exceeded sales, explains Deputy Development Director of Irbit Motorcycle Factory, Eduard Miller.
A boom in demand for sidecar motorcycles in the USA has meant the business has came back to life again.
From 1993 producers began exporting motorcycles to the US with largely positive feedback. But in order to be successful it needed to make changes: drum brakes were replaced with disc brakes, carburettors disappeared and the sidecar got a drive shaft.
The factory now produces five models of Ural motorcycles in 60 colours. Most of the parts are imported from Europe and Asia.
Today's Ural differs drastically from its Soviet predecessor: although the bike still looks old-school with its nearly 360 kilogrammes of Soviet-style metal, it has acquired the reliability and the performance of a modern motorcycle. The bikes can cruise at 120 kilometres per hour.
The main advantages of Ural remain unchanged - it has the sidecar, reverse gear and go-anywhere ability.
Vintage models became fashionable after celebrities like Brad Pitt were photographed driving them.
Every year the Irbit factory produces approximately 1.5 thousand vehicles and 95 percent of them are sold in Europe and the U.S. with a starting price of 14,000 US Dollars.
The extraordinary success of the Ural motorcycles attracted other industry players: those who restore used Soviet motorcycles.
Alexander Myasnikov, one of the largest renovators in the region, has a refurbishing garage in Yekaterinburg, 200 kilometres south of Irbit.
He sells the repaired Urals for 2,500-3,500 US Dollars, seven times less than the new ones.
Nostalgia is what people feel. People try to collect the M72 (Soviet motorcycle) of the war (WWII) times or postwar period, some special motorcycles, for example GAI (the Soviet traffic patrol), touristic and others. There is certain demand (for the used, but renovated Ural motorcycles), he says.
Myasnikov's motorcycles are particularly in demand among local residents on a smaller budget.
Maksim Karfidov from the neighbouring town of Artyomovskiy inherited his father's sidecar made in 1974.
Despite difficulties in finding spare parts for his old motorcycle, he thinks that it is still very useful for village life.
Also, villagers will continue buying used ones because people cannot afford new ones say Karfidov.
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Computer museum takes visitors back to the future
(14 Sep 2018) LEADIN
A Russian museum featuring retro computers from the 60s, 70s and 80s is taking visitors back to the future.
The Museum of Computers in Yekaterinburg has over 600 exhibits and features everything from floppy discs to interactive experiences.
STORYLINE
It looks like any office in the 1990s with a bank of bulky monitors and hard drives.
But this is the Museum of Computers in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg and it's taking visitors back in time.
Here, people can learn about the evolution of computers, get acquainted with old machines and technologies as well as play old games on some of the first machines.
While it may not seem that long ago, for some younger visitors playing games like Super Mario feels nostalgic.
Impressions are very strange, missed. This game is from my childhood, so I'm feeling nostalgia now, says visitor and computer student Maksim Abramov.
While computers and games are now a part of everyday life, the museum shows how far they have come in the past few decades.
Sergey Martyanov says the complex games of today only came about because of the pioneering work of the first creators, which gave an impetus to developing programming languages.
The first game was created in 1959 on the old computer with an oscilloscope screen, it was a space game: two spacecrafts flew on a simple oscilloscope screen as a monochrome image and shoot at each other. This was the first computer game, but in order for it to be played on a more modern computer, programmers of that time created not only a new operating system but also a programming language.
He says it is difficult to define the specific date of the start of computer history: there were ancient machines used for calculating thousands of years ago which could also be called computers.
In the USSR, the formal start of computer history is considered to be 1948 when Stalin signed a decree on the establishment of an institution engaged in the development of electronic computers - Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computing.
Contradictory to this, messages about cyber science being pseudoscience were widely promoted, most likely linked to the ideological war between the Soviet Union and the West.
Nevertheless, the first computer created in the USSR was made by professor Sergey Lebedev in the late 1940s.
Like most old computers it was very big in size. There were about 6,000 lamps in the computer, the lamps broke every 7-8 minutes and required a whole team of engineers to identify and fix the problem.
The Museum's collection started in 2013 and now has over 600 exhibits; many of those come from abroad, from USA, Japan, Germany and other European countries.
Many of the first Soviet computers were destroyed, so only parts of them survived, like the display of the first Soviet electronic machine M-1 produced in 1951 which is the oldest exhibit at the Museum.
The plan is now to reconstruct the rest of the machine so that the exhibit can become operational.
The development of computers is closely related to science fiction, according to the museum director Serge Martyanov.
A lot of fantasies of the sixties and seventies are now normal technology for us: we touched upon the theme of retro-futurism and represented the pictures of Russian science fiction writers of the sixties and seventies and our visitors recognised Skype, Internet and other things. What once seemed fantastic is now common technology.
Visitors are also taught about different data storage facilities of the time.
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British Royal taking part in Russian vintage car rally
1. Cars driving down Moscow street, pulls out to show Kremlin and the Moscow River
2. Wide of convoy of old Bentley cars driving along Moscow street
3. Russian traffic officer pointing the way for the convoy
4. Bentleys arriving on the Vasilivsky Spusk part of Red Square
5. Bentleys on Vasilivsky Spusk with St. Basil's Cathedral in the background
6. Wide of Bentleys on Vasilivsky Spusk
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Prince Michael of Kent, British Royal:
Wonderful, it's always a great, great pleasure to be here and we're looking forward to the next stretch of road, and it's a lovely thing to come and spend two days in Moscow.
8. Wide of Bentleys on Vasilivsky Spusk with Kremlin in the background, pan down to car
9. Close-up of Bentley sign
10. Bentleys on Vasilivsky Spusk with Kremlin in the background
11. Close-up of driver wiping goggles
12. Set up of rally participant Chris Williams preparing his car for the departure
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Williams, rally participant from Birmingham, UK:
The Russian people however are some of the friendliest we've met. The reception we've had in every single town has been fantastic. Very friendly people. The roads are awful.
14. Cutaway of Russian child and father looking at car
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Williams, rally participant from Birmingham, UK:
Modern car is no comparison. We could sell these and buy ten modern cars, but prefer to have a British made, quality vintage car. It's the nearest thing you can get to flying a Spitfire or a classic aircraft on the road. These are fantastic.
16. Russian police officer inspecting car
17. Close-up of Bentley driver taking photograph
18. Bentley driver inspecting fuel supply on car
19. Drivers and car waiting to set off
20. Bentley leaving Vasilivsky Spusk
21. Close-up Prince Michael of Kent waiting to depart
22. Prince Michael of Kent driving away from Vasilivsky Spusk and the Kremlin
23. Russian tourists waving as the cars drive away
STORYLINE:
Britain's Prince Michael of Kent left Moscow on Saturday and continued his vintage car rally to Saint Petersburg, as part of the former Russian capital's 300th anniversary celebrations.
There are 14 cars taking part in the convoy: 12 Bentleys from the the 1920s and 30s, a 1926 Vauxhall and a 1936 Cadillac.
Prince Michael is driving one of the Bentleys, which he said he borrowed from a friend.
The convoy set off from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg on May 20 for the two-and-a-half thousand kilometre (1,553-mile) run across European Russia.
They are due to roll into St Petersburg's Palace Square on June 2.
The cars are each valued at about two (m) million US dollars.
They were airlifted into Russia specially for the event, which also aims to collect money for two Russian charities.
All the 14 cars were brought to Yekaterinburg from Great Britain by an Antonov heavy-duty aircraft.
The vintage cars are being driven by drivers from Great Britain, the USA, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and France.
Prince Michael, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, has family ties to the deposed Russian imperial family, being a great nephew of Tsar Nicholas II.
A Russian-speaker, he has been involved in charity work in the country before.
The rally is just one of many events to celebrate Saint Petersburg.
Yekaterinburg, which was known as Sverdlovsk under Soviet rule, was the scene of the execution of Nicholas and his family by revolutionaries in 1918.
The prince campaigned for skeletons found near the scene to be recognised as the remains of the imperial family.
He led a previous Bentley rally to Russia in 1999, crossing Europe from Britain to reach Moscow and other cities.
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C.C.Catch - Walk in Silence (live in Pervouralsk, Russia, 27/12/2001)
Another big finding for myself, Marco Müller, Rolf Gruber and everyone else: C.C.Catch performing a unreleased demo song called I walk in Silence live in Pervouralsk, Russia, in December of 2001. Sorry for the bad video quality.
Many thanks to Valery Chernetsov for providing this clip. Enjoy and write comments.. My greetings to C.C from Greece.
The last sidecar motorcycle maker in Russia
(8 Dec 2017) LEADIN
There are very few sidecar motorcycle makers left in the world - but the last in Russia is still going strong in the small Urals city of Irbit.
Founded 75 years ago it has become successful again due to increased popularity of retro sidecars in the USA.
STORYLINE
They're an image that features on many vintage posters and in classic films.
The motorcycle sidecar was once a popular mode of transport but now few makers are left in the world.
The last one in Russia is based in the small Ural city of Irbit.
The factory was founded 75 years ago, when Stalin ordered the evacuation of a Moscow motorcycle plant ahead of WWII.
During the Soviet era, the Irbit factory produced more than 50 thousand heavy motorcycles in Ural annually. In the 1990s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and decline of the Russian economy, the factory faced serious problems. Demand for motorcycles declined sharply and the only way to survive was to find new markets.
Purchasing power of (Russian) population fell sharply (in the 1990s), and the number of motorcycles we have been producing exceeded sales, explains Deputy Development Director of Irbit Motorcycle Factory, Eduard Miller.
A boom in demand for sidecar motorcycles in the USA has meant the business has came back to life again.
From 1993 producers began exporting motorcycles to the US with largely positive feedback. But in order to be successful it needed to make changes: drum brakes were replaced with disc brakes, carburettors disappeared and the sidecar got a drive shaft.
The factory now produces five models of Ural motorcycles in 60 colours. Most of the parts are imported from Europe and Asia.
Today's Ural differs drastically from its Soviet predecessor: although the bike still looks old-school with its nearly 360 kilogrammes of Soviet-style metal, it has acquired the reliability and the performance of a modern motorcycle. The bikes can cruise at 120 kilometres per hour.
The main advantages of Ural remain unchanged - it has the sidecar, reverse gear and go-anywhere ability.
Vintage models became fashionable after celebrities like Brad Pitt were photographed driving them.
Every year the Irbit factory produces approximately 1.5 thousand vehicles and 95 percent of them are sold in Europe and the U.S. with a starting price of 14,000 US Dollars.
The extraordinary success of the Ural motorcycles attracted other industry players: those who restore used Soviet motorcycles.
Alexander Myasnikov, one of the largest renovators in the region, has a refurbishing garage in Yekaterinburg, 200 kilometres south of Irbit.
He sells the repaired Urals for 2,500-3,500 US Dollars, seven times less than the new ones.
Nostalgia is what people feel. People try to collect the M72 (Soviet motorcycle) of the war (WWII) times or postwar period, some special motorcycles, for example GAI (the Soviet traffic patrol), touristic and others. There is certain demand (for the used, but renovated Ural motorcycles), he says.
Myasnikov's motorcycles are particularly in demand among local residents on a smaller budget.
Maksim Karfidov from the neighbouring town of Artyomovskiy inherited his father's sidecar made in 1974.
Despite difficulties in finding spare parts for his old motorcycle, he thinks that it is still very useful for village life.
Also, villagers will continue buying used ones because people cannot afford new ones say Karfidov.
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Salute To The Soviet (1942)
1942?
V/O: The Soviet Union occupies one sixth of the worlds surface. Montage showing the coastline of sea and rocks, vast wheat fields, mountains, rivers, deserts and forests.
V/O: The population is two hundred million. Montage of Russian types, Ukraine's, Lithuanians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Moldavians, Georgians, and Armenians.
Natural resources showing trucks of grain going to granaries, herds of goats and sheep, fishermen pulling in nets,coal mining, vast oil fields at Baku, mining for precious metals,copper, gold and platinum. Heavy industrial scenes.
Wide modern city streets, Moscow underground,new cars and trucks off the production line. Large modern Public Works buildings. Children in crèches. Schools showing metal work classes,outdoor physical training. Sea cadets and speedboats.
Defence: Men swimming with rifles, mass parachuting.
Play: Adults frolic in the surf, horse riding, the Kremlin square with people in cafes, ice skating at night.
Music: large choral group singing on stage, Russian dancing in traditional costumes.
Sync to camera, Soviet Ambassador Mr. Umalsky talks about war with Hitler. Cut away to Troops marching with rifles and a long column of soldiers on horse back. Tanks, big Guns, planes, torpedoes and battle ships. Shot of Stalin walking with Bulganin and group officials. Action scenes with Marshal Vorosilov, Marshal Timosenso [also spelt: Timoshenco], and Marshal Budoniy.
Shots of the Home Guard, a soldier, airman and sailor. Women harvesting the wheat, working in heavy industry, as medics in the front line. Children climb onto platforms to guard the vast wheat fields. Sync, Mr Umalsky concludes that Russia is now an ally and together victory is certain.
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All singing, all dancing, all football playing brass band
(20 Aug 2018) LEADIN
A brass band festival with a difference is shaking things up in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
The traditional brass orchestras not only play modern music, but they also dance and even play football at the same time.
STORYLINE
It's not often that you see a military brass orchestra singing and dancing to the music.
But motion and creativity are the slogans of the Brass Bands Festival in Yekaterinburg.
Aleksandr Polyakov, Art Director of the Brass Bands Festival, says: We are trying to invite non-standard teams, that is, teams that express themselves through something unusual, that try to find some non-standard, non-traditional solutions, and, of course, that don't perform like the usual collectives - seated and by sheet music but try to work in motion.
Polyakov's own brass band 'Ural Band' also plays football during their act - a reminder of the FIFA World Cup that Yekaterinburg hosted this summer.
The fancy footwork was a winner with the crowds watching the show.
Another highlight is the Horn Orchestra from St. Petersburg reviving the genre of Russian horn music.
The orchestra plays 106 handmade horns that have been recreated from existing museum exhibits of the 19th century.
Because of the way they are made, each horn can only produce one note.
They range in size from 15 centimetres (5.9 inches) to 2.5 metres (8.2 feet) long.
Each musician can play several horns and together the sounds are merged to produce very complicated tunes.
Horn orchestras originated in the 18th century in Russia on the basis of simple hunting horns.
Sergey Polyanichko, the head and conductor of the Horn Orchestra, explains: These are modern horn instruments, but in fact they have predecessors, which were created back in the 18th century. They were created on the basis of the usual rough sounding hunting horns, which were used during the imperial hunt, and quite by chance this hunting turned into a whole art, into a whole genre.
This art existed in Russia until the beginning of the 20th century, after which it fell out of favour.
According to Polyanichko, it is not difficult to make one sound on a horn; what is difficult is for all musicians to synchronize and play as a single musical instrument.
Only when all musicians interact you can hear music. Therefore, each composition takes many hours of our work, so that we can solder these notes to one another, and only then you can hear it all, he says.
Polyanichko says performing complex classical works requires thousands of hours of rehearsals.
Some Chinese flair was also on show thanks to the brass band from Guangzhou's Secondary School No. 16
Guangzhou is twin town of Yekaterinburg.
Since its founding in 1996, Secondary School No. 16 has been one of the most prestigious schools in Guangzhou.
The orchestra has 100 pupils and was awarded the Best China Orchestra title in 2017.
Deputy director of the school, Weihong Huang, says playing in the orchestra is not an obligatory part of the curriculum.
Our school is not a musical, but an ordinary school. There are 3,000 pupils studying at the school, and those who play in the orchestra, they wanted to join it themselves, it is just their hobby, and they love it very much, Huang says.
Bright costumes and dancing lions added to the national character of the performance.
National theme was also on show from the Orchestra of the National Guard of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
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Екатеринбург Храм на крови музей станков докафильм
Столица Урала Екатеринбург очень красивый город. На ул. Царская есть храм-памятник царской семье, расстрелянной на этом самом месте, когда - то там стоял дом Ипатьевых - последнее пристанище русского императора с семьей. Пройти далее, можно увидеть шикарный особняк ( 1866 г.) Севастьянова, ныне резиденция губернатора. А если пройти в Исторический сквер, о попадете в музей УрГАХИ, там под открытым небом экспозиция промышленной техники Урала 18-19 веков. Эти громадные махины будут интересны не только детям, но и взрослым. Осмотр этих подлинных станков займет минут 15-20.
The capital of the Urals Ekaterinburg is a very beautiful city. On Tsarskaya street there is a Church-monument to the Royal family, shot at this very place, once there was the Ipatyev house - the last refuge of the Russian Emperor and his family. Go further, you can see a chic mansion ( 1866) Sevastyanov, now the residence of the Governor. And if you go to the Historical Park, go to Museum of Urgaha there under the open sky exposition of industrial technology of the Urals of the 18th-19th centuries. These huge machines will be interesting not only for children but also for adults. Inspection of these authentic remains will take 15-20 minutes.
8th Car Show Cars and Coffee Russia at Restaurant McDonald's
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It is held on the 3rd Saturday of every month on Bebelya St., 29, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Russia
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Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Russia
Saint Basil's Cathedral , Hermitage Museum, Moscow Kremlin, Suzdal, Lake Baikal, St Sophia Cathedral, Novgorod, Kizhi Island, Valley of Geysers, Mount Elbrus, Trans-Siberian Railway
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Built between 1554 and 1561 and situated in the heart of Moscow, St. Basil’s Cathedral has been among the top tourist attractions in Russia. It is not the building’s interior artifacts that attract visitors, but rather the cathedral’s distinctive architecture. Designed to resemble the shape of a bonfire in full flame, the architecture is not only unique to the period in which it was built but to any subsequent period. There is no other structure on earth quite like St. Basil’s Cathedral.
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Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia is a massive museum of art and culture showing the highlights of a collection of over 3 million items spanning the globe. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors.
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The Kremlin is a must-see attraction for anyone visiting Moscow. Home to the nation’s top governmental offices, the walled enclosure also houses four cathedrals built in the 15th and 16th century as well as several notable museums. The 250-acre grounds include the Armoury, filled with royal treasures of the past, and the Diamond Fund Exhibition, a collection of jewelry that includes a 190-carat diamond given to Catherine the Great.
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Once the capital of several Russian principalities, Suzdal is the jewel of Russia’s “Golden Ring,” ancient cities that the country has preserved as living museums of Russia’s cultural past. Those who wish to experience the best of Russia’s historic architecture, full of onion-dome topped kremlins, cathedrals and monasteries, will find it in Suzdal. Dating back to 1024, the entire city is like a large open-air museum that transports visitors back in time.
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Many travelers on the Trans-Siberian railway make plans to stop at Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on Earth. Lake Baikal holds around 20 percent of the world’s fresh water. Located in Siberia, the 25-million-year-old lake is surrounded by mountain ranges. The lake is considered one of the clearest lakes in the world. Known as the Pearl of Siberia, Lake Baikal is home to several resorts, making the area a popular vacation destination.
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Located in Novgorod, Russia’s oldest city, Saint Sophia Cathedral is situated within the grounds of the city’s Kremlin. Standing 125 feet high and adorned with five spectacular domes, the cathedral is the oldest church building in Russia. Saint Sophia Cathedral features an array of ancient religious artifacts, including The Mother of God of the Sign, an icon that legend says saved Novgorod from attack in 1169. The cathedral’s three famous ornately carved gates also date back to the 12th century.
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Located in Karelia, a region in Northwestern Russia that borders Finland and the White Sea, Kizhi Island is best known for its incredible open-air museum. Karelians have lived in the region since the 13th century, torn between the cultures of the East and the West. The museum’s collection features the 120-foot high Church of the Transfiguration of Our Savior, a structure made famous by its 22 domes. Other tourist attractions includes dozens of wooden houses, windmills, chapels and barns. The peasant culture is represented with craft demonstrations and folk ensembles.
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Situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, the Valley of Geysers is the second largest geyser field in the world. The Valley of Geysers was discovered in 1941 by local scientist Tatyana Ustinova. Since then it became a popular tourist attraction in Kamchatka and attracts a lot of interest from scientists and tourists.
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Mount Elbrus is located in the Caucasus Mountain Range in Southern Russia. At 5,642 meters (18,510 ft), Elbrus is included as one of the Seven Summits, the highest summits on each of the planet’s seven continents, attracting both experienced and novice mountain climbers. While the mountain was formed from a volcano, it is considered dormant, with no recorded eruptions. A cable car system can take visitors as high as 3,800 meters (12,500 ft), facilitating ascents to the summit.
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Part of the longest railway system in the world, the classic Trans-Siberian railway runs from Moscow to Vladivostok, a city near Russia’s borders with China and North Korea. Begun in 1891 by Tsar Alexander III and completed by his son, Tsar Nicholas II, in 1916, the line is known as the route of the tsars. Most travelers use the train as overnight accommodation from one destination to the next. The train features first-, second- and third-class sleepers, some with private bathrooms and showers.
2011 Area 4 Ride to Remember Part II
Antique police cars take over scenic Lake Shore Drive during the Chicago Police Department's annual Area 4 Ride to Remember
Video report on ShowFx World conference in Yekaterinburg, November 2013
Another conference took place within the largest exhibition of international brokers InstaForex ShowFx World in Yekaterinburg. It was not an accidental choice. The capital of the Ural Mountains region is the most rapidly developing city as well as an important financial center in Russia. This time, traders working with InstaForex had the opportunity to gather at Atrium Palace Hotel, in the heart of the city near the most famous sights: museums, administrative buildings, shopping and entertainment centers. The award ceremony of the fourth annual beauty contest Miss Insta Asia as well as valuable prize draws were also held within the conference. InstaForex always aims to create the best trading and communicating conditions for its existing and potential clients.
Автопробег Пекин-Париж в Новосибирске 2013 (Peking to Paris 2013, Novosibirsk)
Автопробег Пекин-Париж, 2013
Россия, Новосибирск, 10 июня 2013
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Peking to Paris 2013
Russia, Novosibirsk
June 10, 2013
camera & production: mike carlove
song: neil young beautiful bird
NYPD car with Russian civil plates on it is found Moscow. (New York Police Department car)
Sometime ago we had a Russian police car with New York plates on it. This time its something different: a New York Police Department car with Russian civil plates on it is found Moscow.