Saluting her home town: Maria Sharapova has said it is fun when match announcers actually say she was born in Nyagan, Siberia. Picture: AFP
Maria Sharapova may be the world’s richest sportswoman in the world, but she is proud of her Russian origin. She was born in the small industrial town of Nyagan, West Siberia, Russia.
The girl who left Europe for the United States as a nine-year-old before becoming a Wimbledon champion at 17 and a future world number one, said yesterday that every time she hears her town of Nyagan mentioned, she gets the shivers, reports news.com.au.
“I am really happy and proud of where I come from. It’s fun to hear when they announce me and they don’t just say born in Russia, they actually say I was born in Nyagan, Siberia,” Sharapova said.
“Every time I hear that, you can hear the crowd go ‘whoa’. Like, I don’t think people actually realise that’s where I was born. When they say it I feel so proud.
So, where is Nyagan? See the city info and photographs.
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Amazing! I live relatively close to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, and I didn’t know that a tourist train runs around Lake Baikal using Trans-Baikal Railway until I read the following press release from Russian Railways.
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Not like a big fan of military stuff, but the following news is pretty interesting. Last week, a powerful Voronezh-M radar has been activated in Usolye-Sibirskoye town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia’s Siberia, RIA Novosti reports.
The Voronezh-M radar installtion in Siberia was done in accordance with government efforts to replace a Soviet-era system.
The radar scans the area between China and the northeast United States. Voronezh-M can identify ballistic missiles at ranges up to 3,730 miles (instead of that Soviet-era Dnepr’s 1,550 miles.
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Where is the world’s biggest head of Lenin located? There might be the only answer. In Ulan Ude town, the capital of Buryatia, on the Eastern side of Russia’s Lake Baikal.
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Russia’s Far-Eastern city of Vladivostok is a real sea port. It’s full of boats, and this annual Boat Show is a great proof to my words.
Check photographs of Boat Show 2012 taken place the last weekend.
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Buranovskiye Babushki were awesome in yesterday’s Grand Final of 2012 Eurovision in Baku. Now just imagine how awesome they are in their own little village called Buranovo in Russia’s region of Udmurtia.
Buranovo is, indeed, a small village. Its population is 658 people.
Last winter LiveJournal blogger uzoranet managed to visit Buranovskiye Babushki and confirmed that they are very active at their own native place. Cool.
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by bolot on March 23, 2012
One of FAQs is “How to make it from Yakutsk to Chukotka overland?” Here is the living answer. Follow Moscovite’s 4wd expedition launched in the early March 2012 and about to complete by the end of the current month.
They started in Nerungri, South Yakutia, and plan to finish in Chukotka. I think, it should be Pevek.
Their route is Nerungri – Yakutsk – Kyubyume – Oymyakon – Kyubyume – Ust Nera – Sinegorie (Magadan Oblast, see the above photo) – Susuman – Magadan – Kadykchan – Ust Nera (back to Yakutia) – Sasyr – Zyryanka – Srednekolymsk – Bilibino (Chukotka) – … and once again Chukotka.
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by bolot on January 26, 2012
This is the way the protest against unfair elecations is done in the city of Barnaul in Siberia, Russia. By toys LEGO and Kinder.
At the first glance, it looks funny and smart (no fun to stay outdoor in the cold), but it is not so funny now for the mini protest organizers. Russian police started invistigation.
The toy protest was arranged by student Olga Artamonova and her felllows. She says that the protest was actually against the permission system existing in Russia. As you know, any organization, that plans to get our for the protest, is required to inform the police and local authorities about it in advance.
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by bolot on December 11, 2011
Lunar Eclipse looked the best from Siberia, Russia!
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by bolot on November 29, 2011
Bering Strait between Russian and USA. A space image.
How will Bering Strait look like, if the 60-billion-dollars Siberian-Alaskan Railway bridge be constructed? Totally different, we might guess.
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