Photos from Russia (trip 2005)
Фотографии из России

Russia has much to offer in terms of culture and architecture, as trip revealed when going from the Tatar heritage of Kazan, to the gilded domes of the orthodox churches of Nizhni Novgorod, to Stalinist architecture in Moscow and to the Buddhist Tibetan temples in Elista. Whilst Volgograd was essentially destroyed during World War II, there are interesting museums and monuments to commemorate the heroic fight of Soviet troops against the Nazis.

see also more photos from 1999 (Moscow and St Petersburg)
and more photos from 2000 (Golden Ring and Trans-Siberian)

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

Samara : the train station - Самара : вокзал

Kazan : the Tatar mosque in the Kreml

Kazan (Казань): interior of an orthodox church

Kazan (Казань): the Kremlin at night
(see more night photos and more panoramic photos)

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

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

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

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

Moscow (Москва): the Kremlin and the Moskva river

Moscow (Москва) : Stalinist architecture

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

Volgograd (Волгоград): Memorial to the Stalingrad war heroes

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

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

Elista (Элиста) : tibetan buddhist temple (Khuruna)

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

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

Gelendjik (Гелеиджик) : sunset over the Black sea

see also more photos from 1999 (Moscow and St Petersburg)
and more photos from 2000 (Golden Ring and Trans-Siberian)

Russia was part of the 2005 trip

Travel story : The Russian police...
Travel story : Russian administration
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• Day out in Iran
  
• Turkmenistan : megalomaniac dictator
  
• The Karakum desert, Turkmenistan
  
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• Train rides in Kazakhstan
  
• Insight in the russian administration
  
• Russian Police : "you have a present?"
  

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