Videos tagged with "routes"

The Irkutsk Region [01:01]
Irkutsk is the capital of eastern Siberia and the Baikal region. While the city preserves its unique history, it also looks forward actively to Siberia's future. The Irkut River gave the name to the city, and the shore of the Angara river became a citadel of Russian discoverers in the 17th century. Today, from this cultural and scientific center, there are a lot of interesting routes on the unique railway around Lake Baikal, that includes hundreds of bridges and tunnels along the way. The Taltsy Ethnographic Museum is a delightful experience that reflects the history and culture of the Baikal area. Endless rivers and lakes rich in fish attract fishermen from all over the world. The Irkutsk Region is Siberia's bountiful and generous gift.
Tags: tourism, discovery, ethnographic, water, adventure, Irkutsk, Russia, Lake, Baikal, Siberia, Angara, river, Taltsy, Museum

The Republic of Karelia [01:01]
The Republic of Karelia is located in the northwest of Russia. It's a land of a stark, but overwhelming beauty. Karelia has over 20 thousand rivers, and 60 thousand lakes, a paradise for every fisherman. Water tourism routes stretch across the White Sea and Lakes Ladoga and Onega. Russia's most famous monasteries are located on the Solovetsky Islands and the Valaam Archipelago. And on Kizhi Island there is the historic museum of Russian Wooden Architecture. In the Kalevala district, you can visit villages where well known folk songs were written, and enjoy Kalevala, the famous genre of Karelian-Finnish epic poetry. The Republic of Karelia is a land of folk takes and poetic lakes.
Tags: tourism, discovery, water, pilgrimage, adventure, 20000rivers, 60000lakes, fishing, White, Sea, Lake, Ladoga, Onega, Solovetsky, Islands, Valaam, Archipelago, Kalevala, Russia

"Небографика" Максим Ксута \ "Skygraphics" Maxim Ksuta [05:29]
To fail to find a way in a city is an ordinary thing. Another matter is to lose your way there, like you do in a forest. This requires practice. Walter Benjamin "Childhood in Berlin at the Turn of the Century" Losing your way in your own city is next to impossible: you need to possess Benjamin's skills of a flaneur to stray from your habitual routes. Hanging around without any certain purpose is a task hardly feasible for the modern city dweller. A lonely walk is, rather, an attribute of literature, a true companion of romantics and melancholics, not of people always in a hurry on some extremely important business. At the very moment when an imaginary city map with a fantastic topography starts to form in Benjamin's mind, Maxim Ksuta shifts his gaze upwards, and his routes lie in a different plane where the sky of the city is lined with electric wires turning it into a graphic surface. Fussy reality seems to draw back, the space is cleaned to a near sterility — before us there are "sheets" which resemble either works by the American minimalists — from Agnes Martin to Fred Sandbeck, or the static compositions of the Russian constructivists. The comparison with minimalism in this case is far from being casual: Ksuta's works come in a series. The same theme can be endlessly and naturally varied — the artist consciously uses his means sparingly, intensifying at the same time the effect of recognizing more than just specific electric cables in abstract lines and spirals. The ...
Tags: Skygraphics, Maxim Ksuta, Triumph gallery, Art, Cotemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, animation

New York 28 North (Hermiker to Barneveld) [14:27]
Video of the 25 mile section of NY 28 northbound from Herkimer to Barneveld. Video was recorded 11/21/2011.
Tags: NY, 28, New, York, Routes, Herkimer, Oneida, County, Middleville, Newport, Poland, Barneveld, Mapledale, Trenton, Deerfield, Russia, baugh, 217

Travel report, Kola Peninsula 2011 [02:32]
Travel report, Kola Peninsula 2011 The Team: Vidar, designated off-road driver. Jon, co - driver and responsible route planner. Tobias: highway driver and conciliator. The Off-Road Vehicle Toyota Land Cruiser HJ60 (1984) - BGF AT tires, with one spare - Warn winch - ARB diff locks in rear axles - Old Man Emu HD suspension - Original tank of 90L with additional extra 20L - Car extension tent and additional ground tent. (additional equipment included; satellite phone, shovel, first aid kit, hi-jack, GPS) The Trip: Our initial thoughts for travelling was to join a larger group of fellow travellers from an off-road society, however, due to limited number of entrants and based on our past experience -- we decided in the end, to make it up on our own, a second trip to the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia. From our first Russian trip, we had managed to save some maps providing great granularity of the territory information, combined with our own research and digital equipment -- we not only got great insight of the field and routes but made several key outtakes for waypoints navigating us in the rough nature. The journey started off from Sweden, we took the boat to Finland, and from there we moved, quite aggressively driving, to Salla. Salla, a city in northern Finland, which is situated close to the border to Russia. After an overwhelming time of waiting and going through custom and inspection -- we entered into Russian territory in less than 38 hours. In short, our journey ...
Tags: Kola, Peninsula, Expedition, ride, offroad, Adventure, Arctic, 4x4, Polar, Off-road, travel, action, mud, tundra, Kirovsk, Kandalaksha, Revda, Salla, Varzuga, Russia, Umba, off-roaders, Toyota, Land, Cruiser, Defender, BJ40, HJ60, ARB, diff, locks, canon,