Russian Travel Guide

The Uglich Case. The Beginning of The Time of Troubles

The Church of St. Dmitry on the Blood, located in the town of Uglich, is a unique document. It preserves the history of tragic events that took place at the turn of the 17th century, events that have gone down in the history of Russia as “The Time of Troubles.” They lasted 20 years, and almost destroyed the Russian state. Uglich was almost razed from the face of the Earth. Of its 40,000 inhabitants, only 500 survived. And it all began with the death of a single child, Tsarevich Dmitry. The different versions of those events to be found in legends and in the evidence assembled during the investigation in the 17th century, in an RTG film.

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The Kursk magnetic anomaly

The Kursk Magnetic Anomaly is one of the richest iron ore deposits in the world. It's located in Russia, in the south of the Central Russian heights. There is so much iron quartzite here is so great, that only vague estimates in the billions of tons can be made with regard to its true volume. The needles on compass are put 15 degrees out of kilter by its mass, leading scientists to regard the area as a unique geo-physical phenomenon — it's often referred to as the Earth's Third Magnetic Pole. A unique engineering object has been developed here — the world's largest open quarry of non-combustible minerals, the Lebedinsky.