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A) Its cathedral, commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in 1553 to commemorate the conquest of Kazan, inspired numerous churches in the region, particularly in Yaroslavl.
B) The kremlin is flanked by two great monasteries, both face the Lake Nero.
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A) The oldest church within the city centre has consecrated to St. Isidore the Blessed in 1565.
B) They say that Ivan the Terrible had the architect executed, because his church was so much smaller than its predecessor.
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A) In March, the Suzdal tourist centre is home to the Open Russian Festival of Animated Film.
B) This church built in Glotovo Russia in 1766 and was recently moved to Suzdal in 1960 to be part of a museum of wooden architecture.
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A) The church is elevating off the ground about a story high from when it was moved across the country.
B) This church is make out of all wood and represents the close relationship between wood and stone architecture and how precise the Russians were while building this back in 1766.
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A) The Moscow – Yaroslavl railway and highway passing through the town.
B) Sergiyev Posad Bus Terminal is located in the city.
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A) There are also two 17th-Century churches: the Conception of St. Anna, and the Transfiguration of Our Saviour.
B) Unlike the most other churches in the town, the monastery belongs to the Russian Orthodoxy and houses a theological seminary.
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A) This church was built in 1720, the same time that Saint Nicholas church was built.
B) The amazing thing about this church is the difference between the types of architecture of the two churches that were built during the same time period
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A) This towns are among the most picturesque in Russia and prominently feature Russia's famous onion domes.
B)Sergiyev Posad has a city and the administrative center of Sergiyevo-Posadsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia.
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A) Today, Yaroslavl is an important industrial center (petrochemical plant, tire manufacturing plant, diesel engines plant and many others).
B) In the 17th century it is Russia's second largest city, and for a time (during the Polish occupation of Moscow in 1612), the country's de facto capital.
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A) Tourism associated with the Golden Ring plays a role in the regional economy.
B) There is also an important factory of toys.
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A) Capital of an independent principality from 1218, it was incorporated into Muscovy in 1463.
B) In the 17th century it was Russia's second largest city, and for a time (during the Polish occupation of Moscow in 1612), the country's de facto capital.
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A) It grew up in the 15th century around one of the greatest of Russian monasteries, the Troitse-Sergiyeva (Trinity) Lavra established by St. Sergius of Radonezh.
B) The original name came back into official use in 1991.
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A) Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery, situated to the left from the kremlin on the town's outskirts, has been venerated as the shrine of St. Dmitry of Rostov.
B) More of the monastery structures were built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the fine neoclassical style.
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A) The cathedral and four tall kremlin churches with their silver "blind" domes were imitated throughout the city.
B) This tendency is particularly evident in the Savior-on-the-Market church and the cathedral church of the Nativity convent, both dating from the 17th century and situated near the kremlin walls.
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A) The differences between the arches and textures and overall appearance is truly so different and is definitely a sight to see.
B) This church was building in 1240 by an unknown architect.
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A) The kremlin is flanked by two great monasteries, both facing the Lake Nero.
B) To the right from the Kremlin stands the Abraham monastery, founded in the 11th Century and one of the oldest in Russia.
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A) The town became incorporated in 1742.
B) As the town's name, alluding to St. Sergius, had strong religious connotations, the Soviet authorities changed first to just Sergiyev in 1919, and then to Zagorsk in 1930, in memory of the revolutionary Vladimir Zagorsky.
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A) The town is locate on the southeastern shore of the Lake Pleshcheyevo at the mouth of the Trubezh River.
B) The town is located 140 km to the northeast of Moscow on the main Moscow Yaroslavl road and on the shores of Pleschevo Lake.
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A) These ancient towns also played a significant role in the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church.
B) The towns have been called "open air museums" and feature unique monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th–18th centuries.
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A) Yaroslavl lie at the intersection of several major highways, railways, and waterways.
B) Preceded by Viking sites such as Timerevo from the 8th or 9th centuries, the city is said to have been founded in 1010 as an outpost of the Principality of Rostov Veliky, and was first mentioned in 1071.
A large number of foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and other businesses _________ located in Saint Petersburg.
A person from Moscow is called a Muscovite __________ English.
A wooden house of Mikhail Romanov _________ still preserved in the monastery.
Dostoyevsky called __________ “The most abstract and intentional city in the world," emphasizing its artificiality, but it was also a symbol of modern disorder in a changing Russia.
Each noon a cannon fires a blank shot _________ the fortress.
Founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia on 27 May, 1703, Saint Petersburg was the capital of the Russian Empire for more __________ two hundred years (1713–1728, 1732–1918).
In 1611–1612, Pereslavl-Zalessky suffered from ________ Polish invasion.
In 1773, Kostroma was devastated ________ a great fire.
In 2008 Moscow _______ named the world's most expensive city for foreign employees for the third year in a row.
It is understandable why _______ Romanov tsars regarded Kostroma as their special protectorate.
Its metro is the _________ single-operator subway in the world.
Kostroma ___________ first recorded in the chronicles for the year 1213.
Moscow has the world's second busiest (after Tokyo) metro system which is famous _______ its architecture and artwork.
Moscow is a major economic centre and is __________ to one of the largest numbers of billionaires in the world.
Moscow is a very green city if compared to ______________cities of comparable size in Western Europe and America.
Moscow is home to many scientific and educational institutions, as ______ as numerous sport facilities.
Moscow is located on ____________Moscow River in the Central Federal District, in the European part of Russia.
Moscow is the largest metropolitan area in___________ , and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world.
Moscow possesses a complex transport system, _______ includes 3 international airports and 9 railroad terminals.
Moscow sits __________ the junction of three geological platforms.
One of the most notable art museums in Moscow is the Tretyakov _________, which was founded by Pavel Tretyakov.
One of the ___________ preserved examples of the 18th century town planning, Kostroma retains some elegant structures in a "provincial neoclassical" style.
Over time, the city ______ a variety of nicknames, most referring to its pre-eminent status in the nation: The Third Rome, Whitestone, The First Throne, The Forty Forties.
Rostov Yaroslavsky is the official name of __________ railway station (due to its position in Yaroslavl Oblast).
Rostov is better known to Russians as Rostov Veliky, i.e. Rostov ______________Great.
Rostov is located _______ the shores of Lake Nero in Yaroslavl Oblast, 202 km to the north east of Moscow.
Rostov is one of the ___________ towns in Russia and an important tourist centre of the so-called Golden Ring.
Russia's political and cultural centre for 200 years, the city is sometimes referred to in Russia __________ the northern capital.
Saint Petersburg has a longstanding and ______ world famous tradition in literature.
Saint Petersburg is a major European cultural centre, and an important Russian port on the ___________ Sea.
Saint Petersburg is home to more ________ two hundred museums, many of them hosted in historic buildings.
Saint Petersburg is often described as the most ___________ city of Russia.
Saint Petersburg is Russia's second largest city after Moscow with 4.6 million inhabitants, and over 6 million people _________ in its vicinity.
Socialist realism features can also be __________ within the halls of the New Tretyakov Gallery.
The Central Park of Culture and Rest, named ___________ Maxim Gorky, was founded in 1928.
The ensemble of Peter and Paul ___________ with the Peter and Paul Cathedral takes dominant position on Zayachy Island along the right bank of the River Neva.
The Garden features the Green Theatre, one of the largest open amphitheatres in Europe and able to hold up to 15 ____________ people.
The grotesque and often nightmarish image of the city ___________ featured in Pushkin's last poems
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments ___________ a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Ipatievsky monastery ___________ by many Russian tsars, including Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar.
The largest of the museums is __________ Hermitage Museum, featuring interiors of the former imperial residence and a vast collection of art.
The monastery had been founded in the early 14th century by a Tatar prince, ancestor of _________ Godunov family.
The new gallery includes a small reconstruction of Vladimir Tatlin's famous Monument to the Third International and a mixture of other avant-garde works by artists __________ Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky.
The New Tretyakov gallery, created in Soviet times, mainly contains the works of Soviet artists, as well as of a _________ contemporary artists.
The Romanov tsars had the magnificent Trinity Cathedral rebuilt in 1652; its frescoes and iconostasis _________ a thing of beauty.
The Russian Ethnography Museum, which has been split from the Russian Museum, is devoted to the cultures of the people of Russia, the former _________ Soviet Union and Russian Empire.
The Russian Museum is a large museum devoted _________ the Russian fine art specifically.
The Russian parliament (the State Duma and the Federation Council) and the Government of Russia also _________ in Moscow.
The southern coast of Vasilievsky Island along the Bolshaya Neva features some of the city's oldest buildings, _________ from the 18th century, including the Kunstkamera, Twelve Collegia, Menshikov Palace and Imperial Academy of Arts.
The spit of Vasilievsky Island, __________ splits the river into two largest armlets, the Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva, is connected to the northern bank (Petrogradsky Island).
The town ________ is hardly ever called by that name.
The works of famous pre-Revolutionary painters, _________ as Ilya Repin, as well as the works of early Russian icon painters can be found in the Old Tretyakov Gallery.
There are also 450 square kilometers of green zones _________ 100 square kilometers of forests.
There are also several old wooden structures ___________ to the monastery walls from distant districts of the Kostroma Oblast.
There _______ 96 parks and 18 gardens in Moscow, including 4 botanical gardens.
This name is used to distinguish it from Rostov on Don, which is now a ____________ larger city.
Visitors can even see rare originals by early-fifteenth century ___________ Andrei Rublev.
While the official name of the town is Rostov, it is better known to ________ Russians as Rostov Veliky, i.e. Rostov the Great.
____________ other towns of the Eastern Rus, Kostroma was sacked by the Mongols in 1238.
_______________ , with its collection established in 1714 by Peter the Great to collect curiosities from all over the world is sometimes considered the first museum in Russia.