In the Urals

Ekaterinburg (see another post) is the center of the Ural-siberian area. In the first pic, I'm standing with one foot in Europe and one Asia. The second and third pics are of a mass grave site. Take a close look at the statue. The tears are faces. 4th is a look at the western Ural forest and countryside. The forest is a pine-birch forest. 5th is of a military museum with weapons used by Russia and or the USSR (not fascists, as the guide said), including many produced in the USA and provided under the WW 2 Lend Lease programRead more