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  • Ivdel

    Ivdel (Russian: Ивдель) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Ivdel River (Ob's basin) near its confluence with the Lozva River, 535 kilometers (332 mi) north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast.

  • Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow

    The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in the Russian Federation. It is located at 10 Smolenskaya Naberezhnaya (Russian: Смоленская набережная, 10) in the Arbat District of Moscow.

  • Cherepovets Airport

    Cherepovets Airport (IATA: CEE, ICAO: ULWC) is an airport in Botovo village, Cherepovetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia, located 18 kilometres (11 mi) north of Cherepovets.

  • Biblioteka Imeni Lenina

    Biblioteka Imeni Lenina (Russian: Библиоте́ка и́мени Ле́нина) is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. The station was opened on May 15, 1935 as a part of the first stage of the Metro. It is situated in the very centre of the ci…

  • Bezymianny

    Bezymianny (Russian: Безымянный — lit. unnamed) is an active stratovolcano in Kamchatka, Russia. Before its noted 1955-56 eruption, Bezymianny volcano had been considered extinct. The modern Bezymianny volcano, much smaller than its massive neighbor…

  • Battle of Vedrosha

    The Battle of the Vedrosha River was a battle in the course of the Russo-Lithuanian war of 1500–1503 which ended with a decisive Russian victory and proved to be of strategic significance.

  • Arti

    Arti (Russian: Арти) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Artinsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Artya River at its confluence with the Ufa River, 203 kilometers (126 mi) southwest …

  • Arbat District

    Arbat District (Russian: райо́н Арба́т) is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population: 28,179 (2010 Census); 25,699 (2002 Census).

  • Alexander Palace (Fabergé egg)

    The Alexander Palace Egg is a jewelled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé in 1908, for the then Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. Nicholas presented it as an Easter gift to his wife, Alexandra Fyodorovna.

  • Alapayevsk

    Alapayevsk (Russian: Алапа́евск) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Neyva and Alapaikha Rivers.

  • 2002 Grozny truck bombing

    The Grozny truck bombing occurred on December 27, 2002, when three Chechen suicide bombers ran vehicles into the heavily guarded republic's government headquarters in the regional capital Grozny.

  • Zayachy Island

    Zayachy Island (Russian Заячий остров, transliteration zayachy ostrov, also known as Hare Island) is an island in the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is separated by the Kronverksky Strait from Petrogradsky Island to the north, to which it …

  • Zapolyarny, Murmansk Oblast

    Zapolyarny (Russian: Заполя́рный) is a town in Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kola Peninsula, 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) south of the Kola Superdeep Borehole project.

  • Yuryevets, Ivanovo Oblast

    Yuryevets (Russian: Ю́рьевец) is a town and the administrative center of Yuryevetsky District in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Unzha and the Volga Rivers.

  • Yubileyny Sports Palace

    Yubileyny Sports Palace (Russian: Спортивный комплекс "Юбилейный), Sportivniy kompleks Yubileyniy; also translated as Yubileiny (Jubilee) Palace of Sports, is an indoor sports arena and concert complex located in St. Petersburg, Russia. It houses 7,…

  • Vysotsk

    Vysotsk (Russian: Высо́цк; Finnish: Uuras; Swedish: Trångsund) is a coastal town and a seaport in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, on the eastern shore of the Vyborg Bay, 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) southwe…

  • Vitim River

    Vitim River (Russian and Buryat: Витим Vitim; Evenki: Витым Witym; Sakha: Виитим Viitim [local pronunciation]) is a major tributary of the Lena River. With its source east of Lake Baikal, the Vitim flows 1,978 kilometres (1,229 mi) north through the…

  • Tsentrosoyuz building

    The Tsentrosoyuz Building or Centrosoyuz Building (Russian: Центросоюз) is a government structure in Moscow, Russia, constructed in 1933 by Le Corbusier and Nikolai Kolli. Centrosoyuz refers to a Soviet bureaucracy, the Central Union of Consumer Coo…

  • Tiksi Airport

    Tiksi Aerodrome (IATA: IKS, ICAO: UEST) is located 1 km (0.6 mi) northeast of Tiksi, Russia and was built in the 1950s as a staging base for Soviet Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States (as a so-called 'bounce' airdrome). It is used…

  • Temryuk

    Temryuk (Russian: Темрю́к) is a town and the administrative center of Temryuksky District in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Taman Peninsula on the right bank of the Kuban River not far from its entry into the Temryuk Bay, amid a field of mud…

  • Söyembikä Tower

    Söyembikä Tower (Tatar Cyrillic: Сөембикә манарасы, Latin: Söyembikä manarası; Russian: Ба́шня Сююмбикэ́), also called the Khan's Mosque, is probably the most familiar landmark and architectural symbol of Kazan. Once the highest structure of that ci…

  • Simushir

    Simushir (Russian: Симушир, Japanese: 新知島) is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

  • Shantar Islands

    The Shantar Islands (Russian: Острова Шантарские, Ostrova Shantarskiye) are a group of fifteen islands located off the western shore of the Sea of Okhotsk in Uda Bay.

  • Saratov Bridge

    Saratov Bridge (Russian: Сара́товский мост) across the Volga River in Saratov, Russia was the longest bridge in the Soviet Union upon its inauguration in 1965. Its length is 2,825.8 meters (9,271 ft).

  • Pregolya River

    The Pregolya or Pregola (Russian: Прего́ля; German: Pregel; Lithuanian: Prieglius; Polish: Pregoła) is a river in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast exclave.

  • Novy Urengoy Airport

    Novy Urengoy Airport (IATA: NUX, ICAO: USMU) is an airport in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia located 4 km southwest of Novy Urengoy. It handles medium-sized airliners.