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Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, with his wife Naina Yeltsina at the 8 March celebrations. Approximately 1977–1980, the city of Sverdlovsk
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Dear girls, women, mothers! Happy the holiday of not keeping silent about your rights! Which one may wish for everyone, on any day of the year
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The treasury did not help our grandfathers. An official brought them to the place. They began to ask him: where are we to live? – he pointed to the mountains... They began to press him: what are we to live on? The official said: “Why, when you start felling timber, the
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A city should be composed of varied masses, if we want it to delight the eye… Let there be seen in it the gently convex milky dome, and the religious, endless spire, and the Eastern mitre, and the flat Italian roof, and the tall, ornamented Flemish one, and the four-
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Born on 12 October 1969 in Leningrad. Graduated from a school of literature and history and from an art school in 1986. From 1987 to 1989 served in the Soviet Army at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On returning from the army he began performing as a soloist in Sergey Kuryokhin’s
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Every few years, news of yet another newly discovered work by Michelangelo sweeps the world's press. Headlines shriek of sensation, specialists wince, time passes, and nobody remembers what all the fuss was about. William Wallace, the foremost living authority on the great Florentine, has calculated that since 2000
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Photographs taken by Maxim Dmitriev in the 1900s near the source of the Volga. The officially recognised source of the Volga is a marshy area on the Valdai Hills in the Tver Region, near the village of Volgoverkhovye. It is a small spring at an altitude of about 228 metres
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At least come out of the water to eat! Look, you've gone quite blue - the deafening cries of the public, to the accompaniment of which Salvador Dalí took his rest in Venice