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A very good example of the so-called "infill development." Architects Shamarin Sergei and Vladimir Kondaurov.
Potential sites in the center of Perm, like this very much. Imperfection range of mass-produced houses at one time (no corner sections of non-standard sections) has generated a lot of "inconvenient" places in urban areas. But there is a growing city unified fabric, unified body, it does not stand empty, "inconvenient" places. Sooner or later the city's education should be drawn to its logical conclusion, or in quarters, or in the street. And pretyatstvovat this is not necessary. Everything should take place within the existing rules and regulations. Each section of the urban environment has a price, according to which can and should be an architectural object.
Residential building in Gorky ul.Maksima 77a, delicately blended into the existing building. Without affecting any whose interests he has raised the bar significantly the attractiveness of the urban area.
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Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in ChitaAlthough you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.Text by Steve Smith.
