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Interesting things found in Russia, using Google Earth, Page 1

Naval Facilities Found in Russia

Naval Facilities Found in the former Soviet Union

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Google Earth Link (.kmz)	Location	Comment	Imagery Date
Russian Sub in Drydock	Murmansk Oblast, Russia	Harbor near Finland with a major Russian Navy presence. The City of Murmansk is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle.	7/6/2005
Ostrovnoy Naval Base, Murmansk Oblast, Russia	Murmansk Oblast, Russia	A closed settlement, only reachable by coastal ship, helicopter or small plane in winter.	6/3/2007

Aviation Facilities Found in the former Soviet Union

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Google Earth Link (.kmz)	Location	Comment	Imagery Date
Polyarny Airport	Yakutia, Russia	Runway 17/35, 10,170 feet, concrete. Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise based here. The terrain in this area is really cool-looking!	9/24/2006
Provideniya Bay Airport	Chukotka, Russia	6,562 foot gravel runway. This airport was made famous by the 1988 Alaska Airlines Friendship Flight.	8/21/2006

Other Interesting Places Found in the former Soviet Union

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Google Earth Link (.kmz)	Location	Comment	Imagery Date
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant	Ukraine, Russia	Site of the nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986.	7/21/2002

This webpage was created to share the various strange geographic features that I find while investigating Google Earth.