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St Petersburg |
Church of the Spilled Blood |
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Part of the 7000 square metres of mosaics inside the church. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Church of the Spilled Blood |
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Close up of a mosaic. |
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St Petersburg |
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Pushkin's House where the poet died in 1837. |
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St Petersburg |
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One of many elegant buildings in the city. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
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The colonaded Anichkov Palace was completed in 1750. |
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St Petersburg |
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Theatre entrance on Iskusstv Square. |
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St Petersburg |
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Statue of the writer, Pushkin. |
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St Petersburg |
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The Armenian Orthodox Church of St Catherine dates from 1771. |
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St Petersburg |
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The tomb of composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
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St Michael's Castle was built by Paul I, the son of Catherine the Great. |
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St Petersburg |
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The Marble Palace (1785) with a statue of Alexander III, father of the last tzar. |
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St Petersburg |
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Military carving over the entrance of the Summer Palace, built in 1714 for Peter The Great. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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The 1825 Mikhailovsky Palace is the home of the Russian Museum. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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"A Beggerman's Easter" by Valery Yakoby. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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"Home Under Trees" by Boris Grigoriev. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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"The Death of Nero" by Vasily Smirnov. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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Portrait of Nataly Sokurova, a princess, by Sergi Zarianko. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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Portrait of Tzar Nicholas II by Iliya Repin. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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"Night Watch" by Aekip Kuindzi. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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"Holy People" by Vladimir Kuznetsoi. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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"Ships and Evening Sun" by Konstantin Bogaevsky. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova by Valentin Serov. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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Wooden toys. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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Basket made of carved birch. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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Painted clay toys of mother and child. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Russian Museum |
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Carved bone casket. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
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Palace Square. |
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St Petersburg |
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Palace Square from above. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The green and gold Winter Palace dominates Palace Square in St Petersburg. It was home of the tzars between 1762 and 1917. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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Wrought iron gate at the Winer Palace. It is now the site of the Hermitage Museum. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The Jordan Staircase was designed by Bartolomo Rastrelli and is made of marble.
It leads to the Royal State Rooms. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The top of the Jordan Staircase is supported by granite columns. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The Malachite Hall is one of the State Rooms in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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Painting of poetry with a malachite lamp in the Malachite Hall. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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A small dining room where the 1917 government was arrested by the Bolshevics in 1917. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The bedroom of Maria Alexandrovna is decorated with red material made by Cartier in Paris. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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Guilded wall and ceiling of the Golden Drawing Room in the Winter Palace. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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Bureau in the White Hall in the Winter Palace. It was built for the wedding of Alexander II. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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Inlaid wooden floor in the State Rooms at the Winter Palace. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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Portrait of two actresses by Jean Baptiste Santerre over a bureau in one of the hundreds of State Rooms in the Winter Palace. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The large Alexander Hall, part of the Winter Palace. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The Alexander Hall has tall ceilings decorated with blue and white friezes. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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Detail of "Battle at Viazna" by Peter Hess in a coridor of the Winter Palace. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The Armoral Hall with its guilded columns. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The throne of Peter the Great in the hall named after him which is part of the Winter Palace. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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General Delyanov who fought against Napoleon in the 1812 Gallery. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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St George's Hall is the throne room of the Winter Palace. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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The Pavillion Hall contains 28 chandaliers. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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"Les Chaumierees" by Vincent Van Gogh. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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"Lady in Blue" by Paul Cezzane. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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"Lady in a Garden" by Claude Monet. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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"Young Woman with a Fan" by August Renoir in the Impressionist Room. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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"Vase with two Handles" by Henri Matisse. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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"Two Sisters" by Pablo Picasso. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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Ivory carving of men fighting animals from the Byzantine Room. |
| Russia |
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St Petersburg |
Hermitage Museum |
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Relief of the god, Anubis, in the Egypt Room. |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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Forests and grassy meadows East of Moscow. |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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Two girls travelling to Lake Baikal on the Trans-Siberian Railway. |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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The Nerl River near Vladimir. |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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Wooden houses in the Ural Mountains near Perm. |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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The Barabinsk Steppe in Western Siberia. |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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Smoked fish seller at Barabinsk station (Western Siberia). |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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Locomotive at Barabinsk station. |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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One of the many rivers on the Barabinsk Steppe. |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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The station at Omsk. |
| Russia |
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Trans-Siberian Railway |
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The River Ob near Novosibirsk in Central Siberia. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
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The railway station at Novosibirsk is the largest on the Trans-Siberian railway. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
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The wide streets of central Novosibirsk. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
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Wooden house typical of Siberia. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
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The metro at the Railway station. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
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Chapel of St Nicholas in Novosibirsk. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral |
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The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Novosibirsk dates from 1898. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral |
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The interior of the cathedral. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral |
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St Cyrill (left) is the inventor of the Crillic Alphabet. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral |
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Newly married couple. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
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Siberian weaving looms at the Local Studies Museum in Novosibirsk. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
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The wide streets of the city. |
| Russia |
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Novosibirsk |
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Young Russian couple. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
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Wooden apartment houses at Seyatel, a small town in Siberia. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Locomotive Collection |
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The Locomotive Collection contains trains from all over Russia. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Locomotive Collection |
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Steam locomotive. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Locomotive Collection |
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Electric locomotive from the Soviet period. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Locomotive Collection |
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Green steam locomotive. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Locomotive Collection |
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The wheels of a steam locomotive. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Locomotive Collection |
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Deisel locomotives. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Sun Museum |
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Siberian wood carvings showing solar images from the Sun Museum. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Sun Museum |
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A collection of carved images of the Sun. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Sun Museum |
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Wooden Sun. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Sun Museum |
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Totemic solar carvings. |
| Russia |
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Seyatel |
Sun Museum |
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Babylonian solar image. |
| Russia |
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Berdsk |
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The Ob Sea from near Berdsk. |
| Russia |
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Berdsk |
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The beach on the Ob Sea at Berdsk. |
| Russia |
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Berdsk |
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Total eclipse of the Sun in Siberia (1 August 2008). |
| Russia |
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Berdsk |
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The diamond ring marks the end of the total eclipse of the Sun. |
| Russia |
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Cherpanova |
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Isolated forest near Cherpanova south of Ob Sea. |
| Russia |
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Iskitim |
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Siberian homestead near Iskitim, between the Ob Sea and the Altai Mountains. |
were added from 1 March 2013.