Georgia
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| Sochi Stalin's Dacha Rostov Ryazan Moscow |
Sochi
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| Black Sea Riviera 18 miles SE of Sochi |
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| Soviet Bathing House (?) |
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| Cathedral of Archangel Michael |
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| Tsar Nicholas |
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| WWII Memorial |
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| Peter the Great |
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| Sochi Lenin |
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| Sochi Lenin |
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| Lenin Mosaic |
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| Surgeons and Nurses Monument (Initially rather creepy looking.) |
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| Sochi Golden Fleece |
Stalin's Dacha
A half-day tour to Stalin's Dacha and Mount Akhun.
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| Stalin's Dacha (Resturant Sign) |
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| Dacha entrance |
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| Dacha Courtyard |
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| Main Rooms |
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| Stalin's Conference Room |
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| Stalin's swimmimg pool |
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| Stalin at his desk |
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| Scotsman meets Stalin |
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| Mount Akhun vista tower |
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| Distant Adler |
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| Distant, hazy, Sochi |
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| Caucasus range |
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| Distant Caucasus peaks |
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| 50 miles N of Sochi |
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| 60 miles N of Sochi |
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| 17 miles N or Krasnodar |
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| 20 miles SW of Rostov |
Rostov
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| Gagarin |
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| Lenin at Lenin Sq. Rostov |
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| Lenin at Lenin Sq. |
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| The Mighty Don |
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| Rostov Cathedral |
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| Cathedral Bell Tower |
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| Rostov Downtown Lenin |
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| Revolutionary Monument (?) |
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| Socialist Realism |
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| Traffic on the Don |
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| 88 miles SE of Ryazan |
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| 3 miles SW of Ryazan |
Ryazan
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| WWII Memorial |
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| Small Silvery Lenin |
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| Ryazan Lenin |
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| Kremlin Bell Tower (Under restoration.) |
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| Kremlin Cathedral (1699) |
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| View from Kremlin |
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| 35 miles E of Moscow |
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| 35 miles E of Moscow |
Moscow
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| St Basil's |
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| Lenin's Tomb |
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| Zhukov |
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| Central Museum of the Armed Forces |
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| Welcoming Tank |
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| Lenin and the Red Army Welcoming visitors. |
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| The Reichstag Banner |
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| Victory Parade banners |
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| Zhukov |
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| D-Day Section |
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| Gary Power's U2 (1960) |
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| Oddly sinister painting. |
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| Peace-loving ICBM |
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| Armoured Locomotive |
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| Monument to the Conquerors of Space |
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| Lenin showing the way Base of Cosmonaut memorial |
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| Korolev |
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| Gagarin |
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| Museum of Cosmonautics |
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| Gagarin's capsule (replica) Vosotok 1 |
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| Gagarin's (training) suit |
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| Belka and Strelka And their spaceship. |
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| Cosmonauts in the snow With authentic Soyuz re-entry capsule |
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| Idealized Gagarin landing |
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| The Chief Designer Sergei Korolev |
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| VDNKh Pavilion |
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| Lenin at VDNKh |
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| Kyrgyzstan at VDNKh |
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| VDNKh Fountains |
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| Karelia at VDNKh |
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Georgia
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