Topic: Barnaul

This is how they protest in Russia

POLICE want prosecutors to look at ways of outlawing a protest manned by teddy bears, penguins and Lego men.. . . Because protests in the Siberian ...
The number of high-powered lasers being pointed at aircraft in the US nearly doubled in one year to 2,836 last year, according to a new report. The...

Rare warm weather lands pink pelicans in Siberia

BARNAUL, Russia (Reuters Life!) - A flock of African pink pelicans en route home landed in Siberia on Tuesday, astounding local residents after Russia's abnormally warm weather threw them off course."I left home early in the morning and what a sight ...

Altay

Altay, also spelled Altai, kray (region), southwestern Siberia, Russia. Altay kray lies in the basin of the upper Ob River and its headstreams, the Biya and Katun. It consists of the rolling plains of the Kulunda Steppe in the west, the Salair ...

Aley River

Aspects of the topic Aley River are discussed in the following places at Britannica. From the Charysh confluence the upper Ob flows northward on its way to Barnaul, receiving another left-bank tributary, the Aley River, and widening its floodplain as the valley ...

Barnaul

In 1738 a silver-refining works was established and the settlement became the hub of the Altay mining region. Barnaul has good communications by the navigable Ob, by the South Siberian, Turk-Sib, and Omsk-Barnaul railways, and by roads to the Kolyvan-Rubtsovsk mining area ...

Rescued from smugglers, rare Russian birds freed

All were released back into the wild in the Altai region of southern Siberia on Monday.. "All of these birds have had a tough time," said Sergei Ganusevich, director of the Moscow Centre for the Protection of Wild Animals, who flew to ...
Woman's 12th Baby Weighs Just Over 17-Pounds; Mother and Child Doing FineA small Russian city just got a really big addition: a 17-pound, 1 ounce baby whose mother had already delivered 11 other children.Tatiana Khalina, 42, delivered the girl by ...
A small Russian city has welcomed a large new citizen: a 7.75-kilogram (17 pound, 1 ounce) baby whose mother had already delivered 11 other children.Tatiana Khalina, 42, delivered the girl by Caesarean section at a maternity clinic in Aleisk, a ...
A small Russian city just got a really big addition: a 17-pound, 1 ounce baby whose mother had already delivered 11 other children.Tatiana Khalina, 42, delivered the girl by Caesarean section at a maternity clinic in Aleisk, a town of 30 ...