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Chita, Zabaikalsk region. This field is located on the territory of one plant. Old military equipment is left there to end its days under the

open sky. They say that the Russian Ministry of Defence does not order new equipment like this, they only repair some old vehicles.

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The Russian Empire existed from 22 October 1721 until 1917 when a Soviet Republic was announced. It was the third largest Empire in history after the Britain and

Mongol ones with its Emperor having an absolute power. The city of Tashkent photos of which is presented below was one of its possessions in the East.

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Armenia has a number of monasteies dated the IX-XI centuries. Many of them have been important spiritual centers of the country. In the epoch of feodalism development they even had high schools where students were taught historiography, literature, philosophy, theology, music, miniature painting and other sciences. That's why they had to

build special houses for books storage. Such houses were characterized by folk architecture made with stone. Tatev monastery was exactly one of them.It's the monastery of the Armenian Apostolic Church situated in the south-east of Armenia, near Tatev village and not so far from Yerevan - the capital of Armenia.

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Now we are going to a warehouse that is actually abandoned. Many people come nearby everyday without even knowing that the facade of a

4-storey house with conditioners hides airplanes covered with dust. But can the old parts of the planes be used in future projects?

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Everybody knows how to use a pencil. People treat it as something very usual and useful. But only few have ever thought of how complex

the manufacturing process of pencils can be. A Moscow factory has been dealing with the process of pencil production since 1926.

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The place you see in the picture used to be a metallurgical plant in the past. It is located in the city of Nizhny Tagil and currently represents

history frozen in the metal. The plant is located on a huge area and contains several workshops, blast furnaces, and a huge surrounding territory.

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This buddhist monastery is located not far from Ulan-Ude, a Siberian city. It can be considered the centre of the Russian Buddhism. The monastery is

represented by several temples and plain wooden cottages. Only some architectural details and monks in red cloaks remind you that it is a buddhist place.

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Below are the pictures of the 39th Tomsk infantry regiment that participated in battles of WWI. By the way the regiment had been very old. Its soldiers even fought in the battles

against France in 1812 near Borodino. These rare photos show how the soldiers used to fight, what weapons they used, what uniform they had on during World War the First.

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The asbestos open pit we are going to visit today is the richest pit in the world that lacks crocidolite and tremolite - substances harmful

for people. The deposit was opened in 1885 during development of gold placer. The first tones of asbestos were extracted in 1889.

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These are three abandoned places located in different places of the Moscow region. The only common thing about them is that

they are all factories that used to be needed in the past. Unfortunately, the situation is not like this anymore.

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