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Pre-Mud Flood Railway in Siberia, Russia.

Pre-Mud Flood Railway in Siberia, Russia.

One of the first moving pictures filmed in the Soviet Union by a foreigner, Soviet Russia Through the Eyes of an American was filmed by Charles Edward Stuart, an internationally recognized American mining engineer engaged by the Soviets under their first five-year plan. The film is a travelogue...

1880-89. Irkutsk. Siberia. Technical school.

In January 1932, the Monument Protection Department signed a verdict on the cathedral, rejecting the proposal to turn it into a museum, and agreeing to demolish it as a building of no historical or artistic value. An attempt to disassemble the cathedral into building material was unsuccessful...

1911 Irkutsk. Siberia. Imperial Museum of the Geographical Society.

Mansion of the Tartar merchant, Karym Khamitov (1894), which is now being converted into a cultural center for the region's Tartar population, Tomsk, Russia

1900-04 Tomsk. Siberia. Koroleff Theater.

1904-14 Tomsk. Siberia. Chapel of St. Theodore of Tomsk.

1900-04 Irkutsk. Siberia. General Meeting Building. Тhe Polish Church ака Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. Per the narrative: A first small wooden church and catholic was built in 1825 in Irkutsk by Catholic settlers. It was enlarged in 1855, but burned down in the great fire of the city...

1910 Irkutsk. Siberia. The City Theater.

1910 Irkutsk. Siberia. General Meeting Building.

Title: The Tomorrow War (2021) Tagline: The fight for tomorrow begins today. Genre: Action, Science Fiction Director: Chris McKay Cast: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin, Sam Richardson, Edwin Hodge, Jasmine Mathews, Seychelle Gabriel, Alan Trong, Chibuikem...

Today's Date "I can’t tell you exactly what year it is because we honestly don’t know," said Morpheus in The Matrix. Well, may be we don't know what year it is today, but there clearly are some people out there, who know that we do not know. We have at least two such individuals: The Wachowskis...

Those things visiting my e-mail... I wish I had time to cover everything. Google Translated Link Arkhangelsk I wish I could find this building on Google Maps, but it's kind of hard, for I do not know what I'd be looking for. The article is a bit confusing as far as the address of this building...

Festive lighting of the Peter and Paul Fortress. 1st half of the 18th century.

Came across a few images of the Russian tsars, czars, rulers or whatever you wanna call these individuals. I am not sure I understand at what point they were counted like that, for we appear to know certain individuals as: Alexander I of Russia Alexander II of Russia Why do we have Alexander...

Had these two images saved on my computer for a while. What do you think about the paved surface? Is it indicative of the pre-1850's? 1820s Moscow: Red Square 1845 Saint Petersburg: St. Isaac's Cathedral We also have the below image. It has an interesting description: The End of European...

Once Upon a Time in Russia... While looking for something totally unrelated, I ran into this sentence below. Considering the geographical area this sentence pertains to, the account is bizarre. On both sides of the mouth of the River Pinego is high Land, great Rocks of Alabaster, great Woods...

With as much time as I spent reading and researching things related to various iron hulled 19th century ships, running into these 1860s Russian Ironclads was a bit of a surprise. The history of the mentioned wiki page partially explained the reason I did not see this page prior to 07/31/2020...