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It so happened that the panorama filmed over two days. In one of the buildings of the business centre I worked for almost six months. One morning I arrived at work a little earlier than usual, to make images for a panorama. Usually take 3 rings, top and bottom. Recording is done "by hand ". When I started to shoot the third ring, a man came up to me, introduced himself as an administrator of a business centre. Inquiring about my activities and the place of work, he politely but firmly asked to stop filming. To deny him I could not. I was disappointed, but decided to finish it. In the directory I asked the time of sunrise for today and tomorrow. On the next day of shooting was continued a bit earlier, so that the position of the sun and the light, was the same as yesterday. I was lucky with the weather and I quickly finished missing frame, not caught in this time administrator.
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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.
