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The nature reserve comprises two large islands (Bering Island and Medny Island, pictured), a group of smaller islands, and the surrounding waters. The islands are the peaks of a submarine volcanic ridge extending from Alaska to Kamchatka. The islands are an important habitat for birds and sea mammals. [44] Magadansky State Nature Reserve ...
Alexander Golod is a Ukrainian former defense contractor and current scientist and alternative healer, focusing on pyramid research.He has theorized that pyramid structures have energy forces that bring several benefits, for both man and the environment.
Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore (Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, Russia) The Shigir Sculpture , or Shigir Idol ( Russian : Шигирский идол ), is the oldest known wooden sculpture. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is estimated to have been carved c. 11,500 years ago, or during the early Holocene period, and is twice as old as Egypt's Great Pyramid ...
The base of this mountain is located 8 km away from the village of Orton (Russian: Ортон). Mount Kuylyum is part of the Kulyum-Surak granite massif in the Shoria Mountains. The ridgecrests and summits of this massif ranges in elevation between 700 and 1,203 m (2,297 and 3,947 ft). [3]
Alkhanay National Park (Russian: Национальный парк «Алханай») encompasses the area around Mt. Alkhanai, a central focus and sacred mountain to the Buryats people, who today are the largest indigenous group in Siberia. Mt. Alkanai has been adopted as sacred by later Mongols, shamanistic people, and Buddhists.
It includes all islands in Russia with an area greater than 3,000 square kilometres (1,158 sq mi) and some of the more significant minor islands. Atlasov Island from space, September 1992 Kunashir Island coastline: photo taken by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in November 2010 The Shamanka Шаманка [ ru ] , a holy rock in Shamanism and ...
There is a cultic ritual place on the island (Vera Island 9) consisted of two menhirs whose axis line sets a direction west–east. This direction is very typical of megalithic orientations of the island. In addition to this there were two fireplaces and a large altar stone. Cultic place of Vera Island 9 and the central menhir.
Before the Second World War, a naval cadet school was opened on the island. A small brotherhood of monks has re-established activities in the monastery after the collapse of communism, and it currently houses about ten monks. The monastery has also recently been extensively repaired, but remains under reconstruction.