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Urals' Nature Reserves (Minus the Cave but Honouring the Wild Bee)

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May 2nd 2014
In the Ural Region one of the popular destinations is the Kapova Cave (Shulgan-Tash) with its prehistoric wall paintings. I’ve decided to visit the cave, but, given the lack of public transport on the final short 30 km section to the cave, I decided to join a guided tour, and a real success it was, but, damn it, I saw no interiors of the cave. I’ll try to make the story as long as possible, in ... 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