We have already told you about the numerous machines and equipment produced at the time of the
USSR that became older and older and were either dismantled or abandoned in the end.
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Likino Bus Factory is a bus manufacturing company located
in Likino that produces Russian buses of GAZ group.
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Specialists of a research institute located somewhere in the Moscow region examined the way different conditions influenced some substances and
compositions. They were also interested in production of construction elements and electronic networks. The place is abandoned now.
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Exhibits of a museum with military equipment located in the
Moscow region, Ivanovskoye vallage, are presented below.
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What is hidden inside the factory producing nuclear fuel within the city bounradies? Last year, Chemical Concentrates Factory of Novosibirsk produced and sold 70% of the world consumption of lithium-7 isotope (1,300 kg) beating its own record. However, the factory specializes in nuclear fuel production which makes Novosibirsk citizens shiver while thinking about it. People say about an underground city belonging to the factory and some radioactive wind. So,
let's visit this mysterious place and find out which of that is true. Chemical Concentrates Factory of Novosibirsk is one of the world leading producers of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants and reactors of Russia and other countries. It is the only factory producing lithium metal and its salts in Russia. Its earnings for 9 months are estimated at 86 million dollars; 10 million 607 thousand dollars for export.
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Sollers is a plant in Vladivostok where offroaders are produced. We have a
chance to visit the place and will be guided through the assembly process.
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On February 3rd, 1966 the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first
spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.
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Some people grin hearing about leeches being applied in medicine but they should not. Today, we will tell you about production of cosmetics using leech saliva and leech extract. We are at
International Medical Leech Center situated in the Moscow Region. It was founded in 1937. Now it successfully grows medical leeches in artificial conditions to produce cosmetics.
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Russian Air Force's combat employment and retraining center is located
in Lipetsk and embraces a museum and a training center itself.
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Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin, Pavel Vinogradov and NASA astronaut John Cassidy. It's been two days since they began another exercise in the Yu. A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut
Training Center. The purpose of this exercise is to provide cosmonauts with necessary knowledge and skills to stay alive in case their capsule lands in a wrong place, somewhere in a woodland for example.
