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горный хрусталь
Cinderella’s shoes are actually an alloy of lead oxide - PbO - with silica, a sodium or potassium compound (soda or potash) and small additions of other oxides.
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Art iron castings became a trademark of the Ural in the late 19th century and thereupon gained wide recognition globally, with a real triumph coming in shortly. At the 1900 Paris Exposition, the world-famous Kaslinksy cast-iron pavilion won the highest award - a gold medal and a grand prize.
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Circa 200-year-old rare exhibits have been restored in St. Petersburg.
горный музей палеонтология
St. Petersburg Mining Museum has expanded its collection of rare artifacts.
зубр
Some 165 years ago, virtually everyone on this planet believed that the world and all the living creatures would have never existed if not for the higher forces. Yet long before that, Greek philosophers had already presumed life forms could evolve.
жанна дарк
Vladimir Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician, was known to favour monuments as an instrument of propaganda. Having won the revolution, the Council of People’s Commissars decreed to install monuments to the great people of the past - Spartacus, Brutus, Razin, Khalturin - onto the squares and parks of Russian cities. Yet out of 50 names in the Lenin’s list, there was only one woman - Sophia Perovskaya.
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The lump of dark-green nephrite has an exciting story behind it. An inscription found on the slab says it originates from South Siberia. The sample was discovered in the mid-19th century by Grigory Permikin, a geologist who had been studying Russian deposits of nephrite. That large piece of rock was later presented to Michael Romanov, son of the Russian Emperor Nicholas I. What happened to the stone afterwards remains surprisingly unclear.
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Drafts drawings from the Mining Museum’s storage facilities will help restore the historic appearance of the Polevskoy Copper Smelting Plant.
The Exposition Universelle of 1900 or, as it is better known in English, 1900 Paris Exposition came to its end on 12 November 1900. Exhibits from Russia - including the Mining Museum’s collection of minerals, to which was awarded a grand prize - took over 1,500 prizes.
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A malachite block weighing a ton and a half was extracted from below the surface 245 years ago in the vicinity of the area where nowadays the town of Polevskoye, Ural, stands.