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Kitay Gorod

Beauty and the Bleakness

March 16th 2010
On returning to Moscow from Kiev I tell a friend how beautiful the latter is. "Moscow really can't compare," I say. "What do you mean? What about the Kremlin and Red Square? St. Basil's Cathedral?" he asks. "Well yeah, I guess..." And what about this, that, the other, such and such a monastery, park, cathedral...? It suddenly dawns on me what a ridiculous claim I have just made ... read more
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I run a small but successful company organising tours, film shoots and research trips to hard-to-reach parts of Siberia, the Arctic and the Russian Far East. In particular we specialise in trips to the nomadic Nenets reindeer herders of the Yamal Peninsula , to Yakutia , the coldest inhabited part of the world, to Lake Baikal , the world's oldest and biggest lake, and to all regions of the Russian Arctic . I write whenever ... full info
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