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Siberia's Back Door

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July 6th 2012
Took an unbelievable journey through the remotest part of the world I've ever been in. The tiring, back breaking last few days went something like this: June 29: overnight train ride from Krasnoyarsk to Abakan, 9 hours June 30: share taxi from Abakan train station to Kyzyl, 5½ hours, spent one night in Kyzyl July 1: UAZ (burly Russian 4x4 van) to Mugur-Aksy, 10 hour trip after spen ... 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