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Jackie Craven provides a photo tour of some of the country's most important buildings, plus related
links.
http://architecture.about.com/library/weekly/aa090501a.htm
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Kizhi Open Air Museum
The complex of historic wooden buildings on Kizhi Island in Lake Onega is a World Heritage site,
protected by this state museum. Includes images, maps, and visitor information.
http://kizhi.karelia.ru/
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Northern Fortress
Fortresses of northwest Russia and Finland. Photographs, maps, histories, and personal
observations.
http://www.nortfort.ru/
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Golden Ring
The Moscow guide to a group of ancient Russian towns to the north-east to Moscow, noted for their
monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th-17th centuries. Sketch map and list leads to
illustrated descriptions.
http://www.moscow-guide.ru/culture/tour/goldring.htm
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Russian Utopia: A Depository
Exhibition of paper architecture - a collection of some 480 architectural projects from the last
300 years of the Russian history that have never been carried out.
http://www.utopia.ru/english/
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Virtual Museum of the USSR
An architectural project in Moscow by Olga Filippova. Preface by Vladimir Paperny. Large VRML model
lets you explore it.
http://www.artmargins.com/content/eview/filippova.html
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Sacred Buildings of Suzdal
Photographs of 16th and 17th century churches and the St. Euthymus monastery of the Savior in the
old walled town of Suzdal.
http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/religion/monasteries/Suzdal.html
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Russian Architecture
Photographs and information on: landmarks of Moscow and St Petersburg; Kizhi Museum of Wooden
Architecture, Karelia; monastery of Trinity - St Sergiy Lavra, Zagorsk. Hosted by Little Russia.
http://russia-in-us.com/attract.html
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Ouspenie (Dormition) Cathedral, Rostov, Russia
The official site provides an outline history and many photographs of this onion-domed church of
c.1500, with its ornate interior.
http://zvon.yaroslavl.ru/english.htm
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Yaroslavl' - Church of St. John Chrysostom
A short history and images of this 17th century church.
http://cnit2.uniyar.ac.ru/yaros/wwe01293.htm
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Old Russian Cities
On-line exhibition by photographer Vadim Gippenreiter of masterpieces of historic architecture in
Kiev, Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir, Suzdal, Sergiev Posad, Pereslavl, Rostov, Yaroslavl, and Kostroma.
http://all-photo.ru/vg/index.en.html
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Architecture of Russia
Covers both historic and modern architecture. The historic section includes a database of
monuments, containing a photograph and basic information for each.
http://www.archi.ru/english/
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Sights of Russia
Gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of buildings in Moscow and St Petersburg, from Virtual
Russia.
http://virtualrussia.net/sights/photo.htm
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Russian Orthodox Churches
Alex Maytski provides history and expandable photographs of cathedrals and churches in St.
Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and the Perm Region, some taken from other sites. Advertising.
http://www.orthodox.hotmail.ru
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