At its peak, it had a population of 290 million and covered 1/6thof the world’s surface. The country spanned eleven time zones, bordered twelve states, and included hundreds of spoken languages and dozens of ethnic groups. How was the USSR organized? When it collapsed, the USSR was comp...
USSR Railway Map - click here.Russia Road Map. 1:6,000,000. ITMB. Detailed road map of Russia. This is the best map if you want all of Russia at one scale. If you are going to western Russia only, then the Freytag map below is a better choice. Map size is 27 x 39 inches. ...
of a problem when cycling or using a car, and in any case my wife was with me when cycling, once along the Donau from its source to Budapest in 2008, and again from Amsterdam to Copenhagen and then up the Rhine from Köln to the Black Forest in 2014, both of which were memorable...
We aim to find all of the nuclear power plants on the planet and create the most complete database on the web. But there may be some that we've missed , such as very old, forgotten and abandoned plants in the former USSR or recently planned reactors in China, India and other countries...
There’s no shortage of things to be grateful for when my negative-thought train pulls out of the station. Daily I’m improving my abilities to stop it in its tracks. Second, there’s PMA – positive mental attitude. Traveling has taught me that everything is about perspective. Yes, ...
(Why the USSR? Well, at this point it's rapidly receding into myth ) Last edited: Jul 12, 2018 Jul 12, 2018 17 #9,388 B_Munro It is still mostly alphabetical (there was a bit of a false start with the first two places), but at least now there is an effort to establish ...
The typical plasmon peak of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) at 525 nm is completely consistent with the perovskite CsPbBr3, indicating that Au NPs can effectively enhance the performance of perovskite solar cells. When CsPbBr3 quantum dots (QDs-CsPbBr3) and Au NPs are combined, synergistic effects ...
The city has had a stable demographic growth, even after its separation from the USSR. As a consequence, it has been facing a growing demand of services by its inhabitants. An example is the creation of theTashkent Metro, which is an answer to the transportation needs of its citizens. The...
from 1929 to 1997, Almaty was the Kazakh state capital of the Soviet Union. Upon the fall of the USSR, the new government administration decided to move the Kazakhstan capital to Astana, despite the fact that Almaty was the cultural and economic center of the country, as it stands today. ...
One of the most significant projects was the Minks Metro, which was a highly discussed project during the decade of the 60s. In order to build a transportation system like this, the USSR required Minsk to have a minimum of one million inhabitants. However, even though the city reached the ...