Rivers burst their banks in Russia’s Ural Mountains after spring ice melt
Several villages in the Chelyabinsk and Bashkortostan regions of Russia were cut off from transport links as melting ice ...
How did nine hikers end up dead, burnt and radioactive in the Soviet mountains?
The hikers were found dead outside their tent. Some barefoot. Some naked. Some radioactive. All outside in the darkness of remote Russia, then the USSR, in 1959. Their leader, Igor Dyatlov, 23, an ...
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Warm Temperatures Bring Ice Melt and Flooding to Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region
Unseasonably warm weather triggered ice breakups and flooding in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, located in the Ural Mountains.
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'Mountains mind mistakes.' What may surprise tourists at one of Russia's Seven Wonders
Its name in the Mansi language means "small mountain of idols." It was a sacred place among the ancient Mansi and Komi. The plateau is on the list of Russia's Seven Wonders. This geological ...
Mystery of ‘Russia’s Roswell’ where blazing red orb UFO crashed into mountain before being covered up by Soviet Union
HEIGHT 611 is the mountainside where locals watched a blazing red ball flying half-a-mile above ground suddenly plunge to Earth in the 1980s. The strike – dubbed “Russia’s ...
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Pakistani servicemen receive Russian awards for rescuing Russian climber
who took part in an operation to rescue a Russian mountain climber trapped on a largely inaccessible mountain slope in July. The award ceremony took place in the General Headquarters (GHQ ...