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Memorial "Barrow of Immortality" in the village Bykovka Kireyevsky Districtbuilt in honor of the 30th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany
in World War II. Barrow of Immortality - made in the form of a hill 16 meters in height, at the top of his towering 6-foot triangular steel spire. On the concrete pedestal at the mound set two 76-mm artillery gun. Along the alley leading to the mound, located memorial obelisk units and formations of the 50th Army and the first riders of the Guards Corps, participated in the liberation Kireyevski area from the Nazi invaders. There are five common graves where buried about five thousand soldiers who died 18.11.1941. In front of the mound eternal flame burns. To the left of the eternal flame
a monument to a woman - mother, she kneels, on the right - a monument to the soldier. In front frontal stele Mound, covered image of the Order of the Red Star, walled Book of Fame and an appeal to the descendants, on the side of the central alley walled metal vials with earth brought from the hero-cities.
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Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in ChitaAlthough you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.Text by Steve Smith.
