Orenburg Oblast
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Orenburg Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, mainly located in Eastern Europe, with some land in the southern and eastern portions of the oblast falling within Asia. Its administrative center is th
The House of the Soviets (oblast administrative centre)
Bashkortostan
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Bashkortostan, officially the Republic of Bashkortostan, sometimes also called Bashkiria, is a republic of Russia between the Volga river and the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. The republic borders
Orenburg Oblast
…Census, the oblast had a population of 1,862,767, down from 2,033,072 in the 2010 Census. Orenburg Oblast's internal borders are with the republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan to the north, Chelyabinsk Oblast to the north-east, and with Samara and Saratov oblasts to the west. Orenburg Oblast also shares an…
Cave paintings in the Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve.
Mausoleum of Turahan, 14th-century building.
Bashkirs near Hamburg during the Napoleonic Wars, c. 1813.
A Red Army cavalry unit made up of Bashkirs, likely taken between 1924 and 1927.