RUSSIA - CITYVIEWS

Novorossiysk

Novorossiysk is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is the country's main port on the Black Sea and the leading Russian port for importing grain. It is one of the few cities honored with the title of the Hero City. Hero City is a Soviet honorary title awarded for outstanding heroism during the German-Soviet War (World War II) of 1941 to 1945.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tyumen - Drama Theatre

First amateur performances of the Drama Theatre in Tyumen were organized in 1858. Shortly after that art patron A.I. Tekutyev assigned money for the construction of a building for the theatre. In 1938 the theatre acquired a permanent troupe of actors, which has been an invariable success on tour in numerous cities of Russia and the neighbouring countries. In 2008 the theatre moved to a new building granted by the government of the Tyumen region.

 

 

 

 

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Ufa

Ufa is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. Ufa is situated in eastern Europe near its land boundary with Asia, at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa Rivers, on low hills to the west of the southern Urals. On the postcard you can see Bashkir State Academic Drama Theatre named after M. Gafuri

 

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Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometre (780 mi) peninsula in the Russian Far East. It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. The Kamchatka Peninsula, the Commander Islands, and Karaginsky Island constitute the Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation. More than half of the population lives in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and nearby Yelizovo.

 

 

 

 

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Gatchina

The Great Gatchina Palace was built in 1766–1781 in Gatchina town by Antonio Rinaldi for Count Grigori Grigoryevich Orlov who was a favourite of Ekaterina II. The Gatchina Palace is located on the hill above Lake Serebryannoe. It combines themes of a medieval castle and a country residence. Palace interiors are exemplary of Russian classicism at the turn of 18th—19th centuries. The Gatchina Palace was one of the favourite residences of the Imperial family.

 

 

 

 

 

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Tula

Tula is an industrial city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast  located 193 kilometers (120 mi) south of Moscow, on the Upa River. A musical instrument, the Tula accordion, is named for the city, which is a center of manufacture for such instruments sold throughout Russia and the world. Tula is also renowned for traditional Russian pryaniki (gingerbread), cookies made with honey and spices.

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Administration of marine port Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad is a seaport city and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. The site now occupied by Kaliningrad was previously the site of the German city of Königsberg, founded in 1255. During World War II the city was largely destroyed. The Marine Administration of the Port of Kaliningrad was formed in 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

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Tuymazy

Tuymazy is a town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located 145 kilometers (90 mi) from Ufa. It was founded in 1912 as a railway station and was granted town status in 1960.

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Voronezh

Voronezh is a city and the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on both sides of the Voronezh River, 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don.

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Pskov

Pskov is a city and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located about 20 kilometers (12 mi) east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Pskov still preserves much of its medieval walls, built from the 13th century on. Its medieval citadel is called either the Krom or the Kremlin. Within its walls rises the 256-foot (78 m)-tall Trinity Cathedral, founded in 1138 and rebuilt in the 1690s. Pskov is exceedingly rich in tiny, squat, picturesque churches, dating mainly from the 15th and the 16th centuries.

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