The Ukok Quiet Zone, better known as the Ukok Plateau, can rightfully be called one of the most remote and mysterious places on the map of the Russian Federation. Located practically in the very center of the Eurasian continent, at the junction of the borders of Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia (Ulan-Dab pass, Gobi desert) and China. […]
The Northern sea route (NSR) is the national Maritime transport route of Russia in the Arctic [2]. The NSR is almost 2 times shorter than other sea routes from Europe to the far East — from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok via the NSR 14,280 km, from Leningrad to Vladivostok via the Suez canal 23,200 km, […]
Over the past two centuries in the production of military weapons there has been a tendency to reduce caliber. It is obvious to everyone that it is impossible to create the perfect weapon, so the designers are trying to make a rifle that will surpass all analogues. In 1974, a significant event occurred in the […]
The Yakut zoo “Orto-Doydu” is a state institution and one of the brightest sights of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The Zoological Park is located on the left bank of the Lena River, just 50 km from the capital of the republic in a very picturesque place – the Erkenani Valley, between a huge mountain […]
Russia is a labyrinth consisting of many labyrinths placed inside the labyrinth. And in each labyrinth you are waiting for your own “minotaurs.” The Moscow labyrinth. According to the research of the famous Russian archaeologist and researcher of “underground Moscow” Ignaty Stelletskiy, underground constructions under the buildings of the XVI-XVII centuries, located within the […]
The idea of creating an open-air museum arose in the 1960s, shortly after the organization of the Institute of the History of Philology and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In the absence of areas, the first exhibits were taken to the courtyard of the cottage on the street. Zolotodolinskaya, […]
The stadium was erected for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where the opening and closing of the games took place. For the 2018 World Cup reconstruction was carried out. Holds 40 thousand spectators, but after the World Cup 2018, will reduce the number of seats to 25 thousand. There will be group matches and […]
The attention of today’s publication is to the megalithic tract, discovered in 1904 by the well-known Russian archaeologist Yevgeny Dmitrievich Felitsin, and named by him “Kozhozhsky dolmen group”. Such a place with the name Kozhzhokh you will not find on any map of the Maikop district of the Republic of Adygea. This is not surprising, […]
Football – the most popular and massive game sport in the world, the interest of fans to which sometimes simply staggering. According to statistics, almost 3 billion inhabitants of the planet are involved in football to some extent, and the mundial (from the Copa Mundial de Fútbol – World Cup) has long been a major […]
At present it is difficult to talk about what kind of weather waits for fans in Russia in late June – early July, says specialist of the weather center “Phobos” Alexander Sinenkov. However, according to him, if we proceed from statistical observations of the weather during this period, then we can talk about the average […]