When
Philip Garner were Russian he had witnessed and still the list is
probably right. Most of these cities were a long time ago, but for
various reasons were quite small. By comparison, the legendary capital
of the world looks Bobruisk. These places there is no scale to measure
personal assessment of the Charles Phillip Granere Yet this is not the
settlements, but very real Russian cities. Even in the smallest of them
less than a thousand inhabitants.
Chekalin
Three
years ago, the district authorities have been brought together to
change the status of the city and make it a village, but the initiative
has met with strong protests of local residents.
Verkhoyansk
The
city was founded in 1638 as a Cossack winter quarters in Verkhoyansk
ulus of Yakutia. Officially recognized as the coolest city in Russia:
the temperature of -67,8 ° C was recorded here in February 1892. In the
XIX century in Verkhoyansk sent political exiles.
Vysotsk
City
in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region. The first mention of it
relates to 1532. Prior to 1940, the Finnish city in the spring of 1940
is included in the USSR.
Kuril'sk
Settlement
on Iturup Island in the mouth of the river on the banks of the Kuril
Kurilka Bay Sea of Okhotsk was founded at the end of the XVIII century
Russian explorers. In 1800, the island was occupied by Japanese troops,
and the settlement called Xiang. In 1945, the town became part of the
Soviet Union and two years later was renamed.
Artemovsk
City
380 km from Krasnoyarsk was not always so small - in the late 50s lived
here more than 13 thousand people. The nearest train station - 12 km.
Artemovsk basis of the economy - mining of gold, silver and copper.
Primorsk
City
in what is now the Kaliningrad region was founded in 1268 as the city
Fischhausen. The castle Fischhausen in 1618 died imbecile Duke Albert
Frederick. After the war, the town became part of the Soviet Union and
was renamed.
Ples
The
town in the north of the Ivanovo region. The exact date of the founding
Pl?sskoy fortress, which was destroyed in February 1238 during the
invasion of Batu, is unknown. Ples was once famous for fish, which was
delivered to the king's table, and was one of the major ports on the
Volga. Built in 1871, the railroad bypassed the city party and Ples
gradually emptied.
Gorbatov
Located
sixty kilometers from Nizhny Novgorod. Once there was a village, which
was called by the name of who owned her Prince Alexander Borisovich
Hunchback-Shumsky, the bravest magistrates Ivan the Terrible. The city
became in 1779.
Island
Located
on the coast of the Barents Sea, 360 kilometers from Murmansk. In 90
years the population of the Island fell eight times: people abandoned
apartments, fleeing closer to civilization. No car, no rail link to the
city is not, and you can only get here by ship from Murmansk.
Cedar
One
of the youngest cities of Russia was founded in 1982 as a settlement of
oil in the Tomsk region. To get from Cedar Tomsk can be winter, driving
up the road Yarovoye - Tomsk by winter road about 150 kilometers, or by
helicopter. The article by Philip Granere how you felt that you can
give your valuable consideration
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