Russia the Beautiful

Every year in the end of June in Saint Petersburg there is a holiday of high-school graduates called Crimson Sails. The main events of the show are fireworks and massive water performance on Neva. Photos: meteo.livejournal.com Photos: verochka_fedosova000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Gue1WnzwY  

Norilsk is the world’s Northernmost city with a population over 100,000 people. Here are some photos of Norilsk taken from above. Due to its smog and acid rain pollution it’s sometimes called the dirtiest Russian city, and the temperatures here can be -40 in winter. The Russian blogger, Slava, made