We are back at the Mozhaisk airfield in the Moscow region to join the pilots flying by helicopter Ka-26.
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Autumn Flights of Ka 26
2013/11/28
Sand Barchans In the Midst of Snow
2013/11/28
What is the most unusual about Yakutia? Cold below -50C, permafrost, diamond placers? Or maybe a fist sized northern mosquitoes? Nope! The most unusual about Yakutia is a desert! Yes, the real desert in the midst of the taiga of the northern region!
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Post Soviet Existance of the Northern City
2013/11/28
Amderma had been one of the big Soviet fluorite deposits before WWII. After the war many more deposits were found and this one was closed. But instead it started to develop as a base for the Arctic region research. They built a bigger airport and in the 60s the new radar station P-70 Lena-M was constructed near the settlement whose population reached 15000 people then. Everything started to decay after the collapse of the USSR. Today the number of people living here is equal to 350 only…
One can get to Amderma only by plane An-24.
That yellow building is the airport.
There are plenty of empty tanks here, big and small, they were used for diesel fuel.
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UN Condemns Attack on Russian Embassy in Syria
2013/11/28
MOSCOW, November 29 (RIA Novosti) – The United Nations condemned Friday a recent attack on the Russian Embassy in Syria that killed one person and injured nine others.
The UN Security Council described the incident as “terrorism” in a statement and said the perpetrators must be brought to justice.
Two mortar shells landed in the Russian Embassy in Damascus on Thursday, killing a Syrian security guard, injuring nine others and damaging the buildings, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
At least two similar attacks on the same embassy took place in September. No casualties were reported in the first incident, while at least three people were slightly injured in the second.
More than 100,000 people have been killed and 9 million people displaced since fighting broke out in Syria in 2011, according to the UN.
Wanna Be a Cosmonaut!
2013/11/28
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