Topic
Russia
- Shah I Zinda Mausoleum In Samarkand
Shah-i-Zinda Mausoleum in Samarkand. Vasily Vereshchagin, 1869.
- The Wrath Of The Seas
The Wrath of the Seas. Ivan Aivazovsky, 1886.
- Siberian City Of Yakutsk
The Siberian city ofYakutsk, in the Russian Far East, is unfathomably cold, yet home to over a quarter million people: Yakutsk has an average annual temperature of 17.6 Ā°F winter high temperatures consistently well beā€¦
- Bell Island
Bell Island), part of the Franz Josef Land archipelago in Russia. I couldnā€™t believe this: The island was the first among the Franz Josef archipelago to be visited by Benjamin Leigh Smith in his 1880 expedition. In hiā€¦
- War, Revolution, Socialism
I linked a couple weeks ago to Stephen Kotkin's discussion with Lex Fridman. That was so interesting to me I went out looking for other interviews and lectures of his on YouTube and found this great one from Dartmouthā€¦
- Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
Stephen Kotkin is a historian that has studied and written mostly about Soviet history and Josef Stalin. This was an excellent interview with him by Lex Fridman ā€” Lex asks simple, broad questions and let's Kotkin go dā€¦
- Places: the Tes River Basin
This one cropped up through Google's Earth View Chrome extension. The Tes River runs east to west into northwest Mongolia from the Sayan Mountains in Siberia. It empties into the Uvs Nuur Basin, a UNESCO World Heritagā€¦
- Places: The Kolyma River
This striking image shows sediment flow from the Kolyma, a 1,300 mile braided river that originates in the mountains of Eastern Siberia. For about eight months of the year, the Kolyma River is frozen to depths of seveā€¦