The River Of Indigirka: Length: 62 km The basin area: 360 000 km2 The river of Indigirka located in Yakutia. Geographical position. The length of the river 1726 km, basin area of 360 km2. At the beginning of Indigirka taken the place of confluence of two rivers – of Tuor-Yuryakh and Taryn-Yuryakh, which originates on […]
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The River Angara. Length: 1779 km The basin area: 1 040 000 km2 The Angara-river – a river in Eastern Siberia, the largest right tributary of the Yenisei river, the only river flowing out of lake Baikal. Flows through the territory of Irkutsk region and Krasnoyarsk Krai. Geographical position. The basin area is 1 040 […]
The River Aldan: Length: 89 km The area of the basin: 729 000 km2 Aldan – river in the far East of Russia, the right tributary of the Lena river. Flows within Yakutia, the catchment area of the river, occupies the North-Western part of Khabarovsk Krai. Aldan is on the sixth place among the rivers […]
Kostroma is located in 352 km North-East from Moscow, Kostroma lowland, on both banks of the Volga river and the old mouth of the river Kostroma. This is one of the oldest Russian cities. Kostroma was founded in 1152. In the thirties of the XIII century just rebuilt Kostroma was burned by the troops of […]
Location and administrative staff. At the extreme South-East of Russia, on the shores of the sea of Japan and the river Amur region, traditionally called the far East. It consists of Amur region, Khabarovsk territory and Jewish Autonomous district, the Primorsky Krai. Sakhalin region. Distance, transport, time. For many, the far East seems to be […]
Before the beginning of mass resettlement of Russian peasants in Karelia most part of the territory of the modern Republic was inhabited by Karelians, Veps settled in Zaonezhye, while the Northern and Central regions were inhabited by the Saami. Russian immigrants have founded their settlements in the whole territory of Karelia, but not settled in […]
The Karelians are the indigenous people of Karelia, who lived on these lands for hundreds of years. In addition to the common name different ethnic groups Karel preserved their self-designation. So, in the Central and Northern regions of Karelia they call themselves «karyalane», in the Ladoga area – «livvikane», and in the Onega country – […]
Climate Zaonezhye is very different from the weather regimes in the neighbouring areas of Karelia. The climate Zaonezhye Peninsula and the Northern districts of lake Onega developed due to the unique geographical situation of this area and aggregate properties of the territory. On long-term weather regime affects the relief of the region, its swamps, forest […]
In addition to the huge number of attractions, Karelia has unique characteristics that distinguish it from other regions and countries. One of them is the unique Karelian architecture. It is well known that this wonderful region is a real treasure of the Northern wooden architecture. Why wooden? Long since the tree was a versatile building […]
Information about the city Zvenigorod Zvenigorod is located in the Moscow region in 50 km to the West of Moscow. Back in the 12th century on the territory of modern city stood a fortified settlement, which was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky. In 1339 Ivan Kalita gave the settlement of my son and it became a […]