A city in the middle of nowhere

"The administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultural center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia is Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The city is situated on high hills and surrounded by volcanoes, and no roads connect the Kamchatka Peninsula to the rest of the world."

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2012/04/23/a-city-in-the-middle-of-nowhere/

Los 7 Gigantes de los Urales

http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldatlaspedia/4175663631/

"The Manpupuner rock formations (Man-Pupu-Nyer; Мань-Пупу-нёр) or the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations or Poles of the Komi Republic are a set of 7 gigantic abnormally shaped stone pillars located north of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic. These monoliths are around 30 to 42 meters high and jut out of a hilly plateau formed through the weathering effects of ice and winds"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manpupuner_rock_formations

Russia in color, a century ago

"... extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images."


http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

Google Russia creates virtual tour of Trans-Siberian railway journey | World news | guardian.co.uk

"The multiplatform portal by Google Russia and Russian railways allows you to watch the view in real time as it unfolds from the train's window. Simultaneously you can plot the locomotive's virtual progress eastwards on a Google map, looking at the satellite view or tracking the actual terrain and mountains."

Google Russia creates virtual tour of Trans-Siberian railway journey | World news | guardian.co.uk

http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html