Russia in pictures

October 08, 2012   admin   2 Comments

Russia in pictures

[img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_nevski.jpg]A daunting prospect
Cars hurtle down Nevsky Prospect, the main thoroughfare in St. Petersburg. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_hermitage.jpg]The Hermitage
Once the residence of Russia's tsars, The Hermitage is now one of the finest museums in the world...[img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_hermitage2.jpg]
It contains over three million artifacts from around the world...[img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_hermitage3.jpg]
Which are displayed in the five buildings that make up The Hermitge... [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_hermitage4.jpg]
On the first Thursday of the month, entrance to this Aladdin's Cave of art is free. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_soldiers.jpg]Shopping servicemen
Two military men walk alongside the Neva River, St. Petersburg.[img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_lada.jpg]Made to last
The Lada was a Soviet era hero and many of them are still going strong. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_christ.jpg]Spilled blood
St. Petersburg's most famous cathedral, the onion-domed Church of the Spilled Blood. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_kremlin2.jpg]Soviet styling
A government building inside the Kremlin, Moscow. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_kremlin.jpg]Architectural a-peel
Onion domes abound inside Moscow's Kremlin. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_dump.jpg]Rubbish leaders
Statues of communist heavyweights, Lenin and Stalin, lie redundant at an out-of-town rubbish dump. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_metro.jpg]Going underground
Moscow is famed for its grandiose metro stations. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_moscow.jpg]Ottoman influence
St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow was influenced by Ottoman Empire architecture. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_huddle.jpg]Huddle formation
A group of elderly women huddle together in the driving rain outside the Kremlin. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_moscow2.jpg]A cathedral of infamy
Destroyed by Stalin and rebuilt during Yeltsin's epoch, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is where Pussy Riot staged their recent protest. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_trans-sib.jpg]The vodka express
Two military men pose for a photo in between shots of vodka on the Trans Siberian Express. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_trans-sib3.jpg]All aboard
The Trans Siberian express picks passengers up in the middle of God knows where.[img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_trans-sib2.jpg]The hooded heroine
A carriage attendant tries to loosen ice from the train's wheels. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_car.jpg]Going nowhere
A car graveyard in Listvyanka, Siberia. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_irk-windows.jpg]What a pane
Ice forms on the inside of the windows in Irkutsk, Siberia. Temperatures got down to -25C. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_lenin-irk.jpg]Trouble letting go
Statues of Lenin, like this one in Irkutsk, are still common in Russia. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_cold-war.jpg]Cold war cache
This redundant ground to air missile sits outside a military museum in Irkutsk. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_tree.jpg]Frozen in time
Frost clings to a tree in Listvyanka as temperatures nudge -30C. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_bleak.jpg]Bleak but beautiful
Freezing fog makes driving a challenge in Listvyanka, Siberia. [img src=http://gavinhainescom.fatcow.com/wp-content/flagallery/russia-in-pictures/thumbs/thumbs_img_2580.jpg]That man again
Ulan-Ude in Siberia has the dubious bragging rights of being home to the largest statue of Lenin's head.
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2 Responses to Russia in pictures

  1. elmirak@hotmail.com says:
    November 6, 2012 at 04:56

    Nice snaps ;-)

    Reply
  2. xhygza@gmail.com says:
    November 15, 2012 at 13:12

    Really enjoyed this post.Thanks.

    Reply

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