to : Ukrainefrom : Kazakhstan

part of my 2005 trip

Россия

From the train between the Kazakh border and Samara
Вид с поезда по маршруту "Казахстан-Самара"

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Samara : the train station - Самара : вокзал

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Kazan : the Tatar mosque in the Kreml

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Kazan (Казань): interior of an orthodox church

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Kazan (Казань): the Tatar mosque at dusk (more night photos here)

Kazan (Казань): another Tatar mosque

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Nizhni-Novgorod (Нижний Новгород): Lenin Square(Площадь Ленина)
(more statues of Lenin here)

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Nizhni-Novgorod (Нижний Новгород) : the monastery (Монастыр)

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Nizhni-Novgorod (Нижний Новгород) : the church of the Nativity of the Virgin

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Nizhni-Novgorod (Нижний Новгород) : sunset on the Volga river - Закат на Волге
(see a painting from this photo here and more sunsets here)

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Moscow (Москва): the Kremlin and the Moskva river

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Moscow (Москва) : Stalinist architecture

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Volgograd (Волгоград): with my friends in front of the Statue of the Motherland ( Родина-мать)
(more statues here)

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Volgograd (Волгоград): Memorial to the Stalingrad war heroes

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Volgograd (Волгоград): the only building that remained standing standing
at the end of the Stalingrad battle.

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Elista: capital of the of Kalmykia Republic (Республика Калмыкия)
(the Kalmyk people are related to the Buryat and are tibetan buddhist)

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Elista (Элиста) : tibetan buddhist temple (Khuruna)

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Elista (Элиста): interior of the tibetan buddhist temple (Khuruna)

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Gelendjik (Гелеиджик): the Black sea (Черное Море)

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Gelendjik (Гелеиджик) : sunset over the Black sea