Morbid Memorial

East of Chelyabinsk the roads are straight and flat... so, how are accidents possible! This was a constant feature; not just the graves of the people who died in the accident next to the road, but the mangled wreckage on a plinth nearby!

A taste of Siberia

August 21st 2006
Day 79, 18th August. Chelyabinsk - Styuchi Today we leave Chelyabinsk, except for Rory. His leg is quite bad and he needs to see a specialist. We have arranged to meet up in Omsk in a weeks time, he’ll catch the train there. Natasha has sorted Scott’s visa out, Toby is fine. Dima, the guy from the bike shop has decided to join us for the day. He checked my bike over and was shocked by the ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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