This is the Bear Lake Radio Telescope outside of Moscow, and for such a big thing it was incredibly hard to track down any information about it.

Initially I had no idea what it was called, but after some extensive Googling I located a page which claimed this is a TNA-1500 radio telescope with a 64 metre diameter. It doesn’t look quite that big to me, but it certainly isn’t far off.

Supposedly there are several other telescopes which alongside this one make up the Russian Deep Space Network. The same page I mentioned above says they’re located at Ussuriisk, Kalyasin, Yevpatoria and Shchelkovo. Unfortunately only Shchelkovo is in high-res, but after lengthy scrolling around I simply cannot see it for the life of me.

Mind you, the page was written in 1996…

Thanks to Sven.

Update: Chad found the Shchelkovo telescopes, and there’s tons of them! Three are shown side by side in our bonus thumbnail, and there’s also one with a very cool shadow too. Thanks Chad

Two factories of the Coca-Cola company. The first is in St. Petersburg, Russia and the other is somewhere in Germany.

Thanks: Max & Bilbo

Remember our giant piece of Scotch Tape holding Canada together? Well our ever-helpful readers have since turned up several more pieces of this gargantuan sticky-tape…

Firstly we have this enormous length of tape, which is actually holding Ghana and Ivory Coast together. Not high-resolution on this one, but at the eastern end the tape fades out rather prettily into some lovely clouds.

Next up is this semi-transparent tape stitching a large section of the Libyan desert together. Notice how all of these anomalies run at very similar angles across the images?

Finally we have this shoddy looking job in Russia, which appears to have required two pieces of tape to get the job done! I think their mistake was trying to tape water together…

Thanks: Dave, Winterfresh, Alxdr, mcb, blumentopf and MoonFella.

This is the Moscow Kremlin, which is commonly referred to simply as The Kremlin (which in Russian means ‘citadel’). The complex is the seat of Russian power, as it serves as the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the Russian Federation (Wikipedia entry).

The irregular triangle of the Kremlin walls encloses an area of 275,000 square metres, and is home to some of Russia’s most popular tourist destinations, including Cathedral Square. The Cathedral of the Dormition is the oldest structure (1479), which was built to be the main church of Moscow and is where all the Tsars were crowned. In our thumbnail it is the building capped with five golden cupolas. (Wikipedia entry, and a good ground level shot.)

Just outside the Kremlin walls lies Red Square, which is around 695 meters long and 130 meters wide. In our thumbnail you can see the south side of the square and Lenin’s Mausoleum (Wikipedia entry), which is the final resting place of Vladimir Lenin, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the founder of the ideology of Leninism. Lenin’s embalmed body has been on public display there since he died in 1924. Though supposedly ‘rejuvenated’ annually, Lenin’s body looks so waxy that many people wonder if the body is still real. Some parts might be fake, or partially fake for the needs of presentability.

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Finally for this visit to Moscow, we can see Saint Basil’s Cathedral. It’s a shame that it’s so unimpressive from up here, especially given how stunning it is when seen from ground level (Wikipedia entry).

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There’s far too many things here to point them all out, so for further information, check out this detailed map of the area

Thanks to Alekseev Vladimir, Alan, Todd Holden, Nels N Nelson, Nathan, Caius Toneriko, Patrick, Ben, Tom D, Vaclav Papousek, Adam, Julian, Terry Foster, Aaron, DJ Swammi, Stephen Train, Stephan Segraves, Max, Steve, Lee Bennett, Efreet, fedor, Patrick Kent, Hendrik Dacquin, Akos Vagi, seamus and Adam Parker.

This is the real ‘Buran’ Soviet shuttle in Gorky Park, Moscow. Well, nearly real anyway, it’s actually a prototype vehicle designed for static tests. The Soviet shuttle program began in 1976 as a response to the United States equivalent (Soviet politicians were convinced that the shuttle could be used for military purposes). The project was the largest and the most expensive in the history of Soviet space exploration.

Thanks to Tom D, Konstantin, Dee Mon, GS, Konstantin, Igor and Roman Korchagin (’Igor’ and ‘Roman Korchagin’, seriously? )