19 June 2015. Our Great Russian Motherland… The Fairytale Island of Kizhi

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Kizhi is an island in Lake Onega in the northern lands near St Petersburg, in the Republic of Karelia. It’s become an open-air museum of about eighty buildings moved to the island from all over Karelia. The most famous is the Kizhi Pogost, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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2 March 2015. Our Great Russian Motherland… Winter in the Cossack Lands

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Girls enjoy the snow and ice in the Central Park in Stavropol (Krasnodar Krai. Northern Caucasus Federal District).

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2 March 2015. Our Great Russian Motherland… It’s an Old School Siberian Winter

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Oksana Shirshova carries a shoulder yoke with two buckets after drawing water from the Teryol River in Verkhnyaya Biryusa, in the taiga near Krasnoyarsk (Emelyanovo Raion. Krasnoyarsk Krai. Siberian Federal District).

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28 February 2015. Our Great Russian Motherland… A Foggy Day in Novogorod…

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