Category: Places
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Recently, an unusual museum-restaurant was opened on Moscow’s historical street of Arbat. Actually, the place is a 3 bedroom apartment, where each room has a decor of 60-ties, 80-ties …
Kekura is the Russian word for stacks, which look like vertical stone columns. Stacks are formed over time by the force of wind. These rock formations look like a …
Few centuries ago the Monastery of St. Elias stood on a cliff right above the Bay of Balaclava in the Crimea. It was built by the Greeks in the …
Built in 2012, the Ushakov Church is one of the most strangest buildings in Russia. Located in Saint Petersburg, it’s named in honor of Saint Feodor Ushakov, the most …
Apparently, all it takes is a decent quadcopter and just one person to take amazing aerial photos of rural Russia: abandoned churches, monasteries, wide open spaces and lush green …
Located in the south-west of Western Siberia, the city of Omsk is the place to avoid, according to some of its residents. When comparing the wages and cost of …
Inherited from the Soviet Union, these cities host important sites of the atomic, metallurgical, chemical and military industries. They are called “forbidden cities” and “closed cities”, a Soviet phenomenon …
The museum of Soviet Arcade Machines has branches in Saint-Petersburg and Moscow. The museum offers a unique exhibition of more than 30 mid-1980s arcade machines, including: “Battleship”, “Safari”, “Dogfight”, …
