Crooked, Drunken And Dancing Forests
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
A tree, when left to its own device, will normally grow straight. But when the tree is young and its trunk is tender, it can be forced to gr...
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The Geographic Center of Asia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 11, 2015
If you were to take the entire continent of Asia and balance it on a pinhead, you would have to put the pin at a place called Kyzyl in Russi...
The Graveyard of Fallen Monuments
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 4, 2015
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, so did thousands of statues all across the Union. Crowds gathered with hammers and cranes and pulle...
The Children’s Railways of Soviet Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2015
In the outskirts of Budapest, through the scenic Buda hills, run a short, narrow-gauge railway line called Gyermekvasút, which is Hungarian ...
The Monument to Russia’s Favorite Bus LiAZ-677
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2015
On Saturday August 29, 2015, in the suburban town of Likino-Dulyovo, 98 kilometers northeast of Moscow, a new monument was unveiled. It’s tr...
The Manpupuner Rock Formations
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2015
The Manpupuner rock formations are a set of 7 gigantic stone pillars located on a flat plateau, west of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-P...
The Strange Beauty of Soviet Bus Stops
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2015
Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig travelled through the length and breadth of the former Soviet Union to document a curious phenomen...
The Mysterious Patomskiy Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2015
In 1949 a geologist named Vadim Kolpakov discovered a large mound of limestone in the north of the Irkutsk region in southeastern Siberia, a...
The Log House of Nikolay Sutyagin
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2015
Not many years ago, in northern Russia, on the outskirts of the city of Archangel, by the Dvina River, stood a tall wooden house — a whimsic...
Kuthiny Baty: The Pumice Stone Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 3, 2015
At the southern tip of Kamchatka Peninsula, within the Southern Kamchatka Wildlife Refuge in Russia, lies Kurile Lake in a large caldera tha...
RATAN-600, The World’s Largest Radio Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2015
RATAN-600 (short for Radio Astronomical Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) is a radio telescope located near the village of Zelenchukskay...
The Wooden Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2015
The royal estate of Kolomenskoye runs all the way along the right-bank of the River Moscow from Kolomenskaya to Kashirskaya metro stations a...
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Around the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2015
Throughout history, thousands of wars have been fought and millions of soldiers have lost their lives, but only an insignificant fraction of...
Koyashskoye Salt Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2015
Koyashskoye is a salt lake located on the coast of the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea, and separated from the Black Sea by a strip of land. Like ...
The Humble Sources of 10 Major Rivers
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2015
The source or headwaters of a river, defined as the furthest place in that river from its estuary or confluence with another river, is an el...
Archstoyanie: Russia's Largest Land Art Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2015
Every year, thousands of people flock to the small Russian village of Nikola-Lenivets, about 200 kilometers southwest of Moscow on the banks...
The Temple of All Religions in Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2015
The Temple of All Religions is an architectural complex in the dacha settlement of Staroye Arakchino, inside Kazan municipality in Russia. T...
Eski Kerman, An Ancient Cave City in Crimea
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2015
Eski Kermen is a medieval town located just 6 km from Mangupa, in the Bakhchisaray region in Crimea. The town is located atop one of the fla...
Kungur Ice Cave
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2014
Kungur Ice Cave is a karst cave located in the Urals, near the town Kungur in Perm Krai, Russia, on the banks of the Sylva River. With a len...
The Rock Pillars Of Krasnoyarsk Stolby Nature Reserve
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 12, 2014
Krasnoyarsk Stolby Nature Reserve is located on the southern bank of the Yenisei River, bordering the city of Krasnoyarsk, in Russia. The ma...
