Tula WEAPONS Capital, WWII ARMORED Train + PRYANIK Gingerbread (Budget Travel Russia) {Tula, RUSSIA}
Budget Travel Russia #15
Tula Weapons Capital is an unusual civic slogan. Arriving at the Moscow Train Station, the unusually colored Soviet WWII Armored Train catches the eyes of visitors and enhances Tula's military reputation..
Painted in army green camouflage, the shades are certainly out of place in a passenger station. But then where else is it appropriate to store, and display, a train that saw action during WWII?
Train Number 13, now converted into a hands-on museum, is a constant reminder to Tula residents and visitors about the tactics and equipment required to defend the city during the Great Patriotic War. The train's presence also enhances the reputation of Tula Weapons Capital.
Jump on board with Matt to experience some of the conditions under which soldiers from the USSR fought to preserve their country.
To lighten up, and wind down, the day, Matt visits a famed Tula pryanik store, Tulskiye Pryaniki, to sample the local treat; a large ginger cookie with jam filling.
Budget Travel Moscow and Central (Russia) #1
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Excursion to the village Gala Azerbaijan / Экскурсия в селение Гала Азербайджан
Gala Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum ComplexPetroglyphs covering the period from the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. to the Middle Ages, gavaldash (tambourine stone), ceramics, domestic and adornment items, weapons and coins, conserved remnants of an ancient residential complex etc. found in the Absheron peninsula were placed at the Complex.
The Qala Fortress related to the 10-14th centuries includes a tower and a stronghold. Used for surveillance and defence, the tower related to the 10-14th century is 13.8 meters tall. Golden coins, remnants of a golden bracelet and ceramic samples related to the 10-16th centuries are displayed in a stronghold related to the 16-17th centuries.
Археолого-этнографический музейный комплекс Гала
В комплексе представлены наскальные рисунки, гавалдаш, керамические изделия, бытовые предметы и украшения, оружия и монеты, законсервированные развалины древнего поселения, относящиеся к периоду с III-II тыс. до н.э. до средних веков.
Входящий в комплекс замок Гала, относящийся к X-XIV векам, состоит из башни и укрепления. Высота относящейся к X-XIV векам башни, использовавшейся в целях наблюдения и обороны, составляет 13,8 метра. В относящемся к XVI-XVII векам укреплении демонстрируются относящиеся к Х-XVI векам золотые монеты, остатки золотых браслетов, образцы керамики. На этих рисунках изображены фигуры женщин, мужчин и животных, другие фрагменты.
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Urartu (), which corresponds to the biblical mountains of Ararat, is the name of a geographical region commonly used as the exonym for the Iron Age kingdom also known by the modern rendition of its endonym, the Kingdom of Van, centered around Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands.
That a distinction should be made between the geographical and the political entity was pointed out by König. The geographical area corresponds to the mountainous plateau between Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the Iranian Plateau, and the Caucasus Mountains, later known as the Armenian Highlands.
The written language that the kingdom's political elite used is referred to as Urartian, which appears in cuneiform inscriptions in Armenia and eastern Turkey. It is unknown what language was spoken by the peoples of Urartu at the time of the existence of the kingdom, but there is linguistic evidence of contact between the proto-Armenian language and the Urartian language at an early date (sometime between the 3rd—2nd millennium BC), occurring prior to the formation of Urartu as a kingdom.The kingdom rose to power in the mid-9th century BC, but went into gradual decline and was eventually conquered by the Iranian Medes in the early 6th century BC. The geopolitical region would re-emerge as Armenia shortly after. Being heirs to the Urartian realm, the earliest identifiable ancestors of the Armenians are the peoples of Urartu.