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Crazy Russian Trucking

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Not only these machines are crazy but their drivers must be to… Its amazing through which mud, forests and rivers these Russians are passing. Extreme truck offroad. They are hundred percent hero’s. Anyway most of the clips are recorded somewhere on Ural, and trucks on them are Ural or ZIL. Check the clips:

Mir Diamond Mine – Mirny

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This mine is one of the most impressive places on eath. It is 525m deep hole in the ground and 1200m wide. The Mine is an abandoned open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia. It was the first and one of the largest diamond pipes of the USSR. Mir Mine was discovered on June 13, [...]

Barentsburg

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Barentsburg (Grumant in Russian) is a small Russian settlement in Svalbard (a group of islands north from Norway), with about of 700 inhabitants registered in September 2005. An interesting fact about this small town is that it is one of the most northerly settlement in Europe. Barentsburg has been inhabitated by Russians since 1932, and get [...]