A man steers a motorboat along a wide river, with two women in headscarves seated beside buckets and a basin full of red berries.

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Women berry pickers in a boat on the Biryusa River near the village of Lugovaya, 1990

Women gathering Siberian berries on the River Biryusa, a tributary of the Angara. Near the village of Lugovaya in Krasnoyarsk Krai, 1990

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Second map of Moscow in Georg Braun's atlas of cities, published in 1618

In 1618 an engraving with a view of Moscow appeared in the six-volume atlas of the cities of the world, Civitates Orbis Terrarum. The atlas was compiled by the Cologne priest Georg Braun, beginning in 1572, and this was already the second map of Moscow in the edition. A

Old black-and-white photograph of a depot building with conical roofs behind a long white fence, and a man standing on the road.

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Surviving circular locomotive depot in Moscow that hosted a graphics fair

A circular locomotive depot. One of these survives in Moscow, in the Komsomolskaya district; last autumn a graphic art fair was held there

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The Charles III Trail, 2,700 miles long, runs along the English coast past the Seven Sisters

King Charles III Opens a Path Bearing His Own Name at the Seven Sisters National Nature Reserve in Seaford, East Sussex. The King Charles III Trail is a new walking route of 2,700 miles running along the entire coast of England. From Newhaven the trail skirts Seaford Bay, passes

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Valdner's aerotrain, shelved in 1934, and Abakovsky's aerowagon of 1921

Waldner's Aero-Train: The Soviet Train of the Future That Never Went Anywhere. Sevastyan Waldner received a musical education and played the violin, but he entered history as the inventor of a monorail train that was half a century ahead of its time. In 1931 he began work

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Port Arthur in 1945

Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei

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The Zhiguli Hills on the Volga in the 1880s and 1890s

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How the Source of the Volga at Volgoverkhovye Was Identified and Studied, from the Chronicle to Today

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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Azerbaijan, or Ancient Media within Persia, before the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 and the Treaty of Turkmenchay of 1828

By the Treaty of Gulistan, concluded after the first Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813, Persia recognised the transfer to Russia of Dagestan, Eastern Georgia (that is, Kartli-Kakheti), Imereti, Mingrelia, Guria and Abkhazia, as well as the Karabakh, Ganja, Sheki, Shirvan, Quba, Baku, Derbent and Talysh khanates of Northern

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A tame raven chick in a geologists' camp in the Arkhangelsk region in summer 1982

The Children and the Young Raven. The children found an injured young raven in the forest and nursed it back to health. It became quite tame and lived in the geologists' camp until the middle of summer. Shortly before the camp was due to move from the Arkhangelsk Region

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General Grant, the Giant Sequoia in Grant Grove in Sequoia National Park, Which Has Stood on This Spot Since the Days of Constantine in Rome

Engraving of four figures holding a map of Poland in 1772 and pointing at its lands.

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Three partitions of Poland among Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1772, 1793 and 1795

The History of Poland Consists of Just Three Partitions. The partition of 1772 between Russia, Prussia and Austria, the partition of 1793 between Russia and Prussia, the partition of 1795 between Russia, Prussia and Austria. And then straight on to 1918.