According to Cell Phone Explorer, the main natural and cultural attraction of the Medvezhyegorsk region is the Zaonezhye Peninsula, which is located in the northern part of Lake Onega. Here are monuments of wooden architecture – churches, chapels, houses, mills and barns built in the 17th – the first third of the 20th centuries. It…
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Check internetsailors for Russia in 2011.
Russia History from Ivan III to the Rise of the Romanovs
With Ivan III (1462-1505) the Grand Duchy of Moscow began an expansion policy which ended with the formation of a great empire. Ivan was surrounded by enemies: the mighty Novgorod to the N, the Tatars to the SE and S, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, now united with the Polish kingdom, to the W and…
Russia 2009
Yearbook 2009 Russian Federation. Oil price falls and global financial crisis pushed the Russian economy. GDP fell by 10 percent in the first half of the year, and the decline was expected to be similar for the entire year. The number of poor people is expected to increase from 18.5 million to 24.5 million for…