Malaya Zemlya Memorial
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2016
The Malaya Zemlya Memorial in Novorossiysk, Russia, pays homage to a little known but important battle of the Second World War, that eventua...
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Sarai Batu: The Reconstructed 13th Century Capital City of The Golden Horde
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2016
The ancient city of Sarai Batu was located on the lower stretch of the Volga River, about 120 km north of the modern city of Astrakhan in pr...
Fort Alexander, Saint Petersburg
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2016
The city of Saint Petersburg at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, was once protected by a string of forts across the gulf. ...
Spaso-Kamenny Monastery
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2016
The Spaso-Kamenny Monastery is located in a small island in the middle of Kubensky Lake, in Ust-Kubinsky District of Vologda Oblast, about 5...
Salekhard–Igarka Railway: Stalin’s Railroad of Death
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2016
On the outskirts of Salekhard, the capital of the Yamal Nenets Autonomous Region, Russia, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, lies the disused...
Big Stone River, Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2016
The Big Stone River is a chaotic jumble of huge boulders flowing down the slope of the Taganay mountains in the Southern Urals, on the terri...
Whale Bone Alley of Yttygran Island
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2016
Along the northern shore of the remote Siberian island of Yttygran, in the Bering Sea, is an area known as the “Whale Bone Alley”. Forty yea...
The Island Town of Sviyazhsk
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2016
When Ivan the Terrible, the Grand Prince of Moscow and the first Tsar of Russia, ascended the throne in the middle of the 16th century, he d...
Lenin's Hut in Razliv
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
In July 1917, after an armed demonstration by the Bolsheviks in St. Petersburg against the Russian Provincial Government turned violent, the...
The Fabulous Fabergé Eggs of The Russian Imperial Family
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2016
Easter is the most important celebration for Russian orthodox Christians, just like Christmas is in the West. Devoted Christians bring hand-...
The Novaya Zemlya Effect
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2016
The Novaya Zemlya Effect is a curious optical phenomenon named after an archipelago located north of Russia, in the Arctic Ocean. It was her...
The Por-Bazhyn Fortress
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2016
In a small island in the center of a remote Lake Tere-Khol, high in the mountains of southern Siberia, close to the Mongolian border, lies t...
The Strange Rocks of Vottovaara
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2016
Twenty km south-east of the village of Sukkajärvi, in the west Karelia hills of the Karelia region of Russia, is the mountain of Vottovaara....
Belogorsky Monastery of St. Nicholas
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2016
The Belogorsky Monastery of St. Nicholas, also known as the Belaya Gora Monastery, is located on top of a hill in Belaya Gora or the White M...
Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2016
About a hundred meters off the coast at Cape Tarhankut, the westernmost part of Crimea, at a depth of a ten to twelve meters is a unique mus...
Fairytale Like Christmas Celebration in Moscow
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2016
Christmas in Russia is different from Christmas celebrated in the rest of the world. For starters, they are celebrated on January 7, rather ...
Russky Bridge: Russia’s Billion-Dollar Vanity Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 6, 2016
Throughout the history of civilization, bridges have been constructed to connect cities across waterways and over unfavorable terrain so tha...
The Ice of Lake Baikal
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2015
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, remains covered with ice for almost five months a year. Every winter as the temperature plummets below zero...
Shigir Idol: The World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2015
In the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a 9 feet tall wooden statue enclosed in a glass box. Called the...
Pavlov’s House in Volgograd
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2015
On the banks of river Volga in the heart of modern-day Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, stands a four-story apartment building with a brick m...
