Real Russia - a trip in the fall of 2016.

September 2016. Route: St. Petersburg - Cherkovets - Vologda - St. Petersburg. 1500 km Average speed - 70 km / h, consumption - 15 l / 100 km.
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Old school! Without navigators.
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The route St. Petersburg - Vologda (A-114).
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Autumn.
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City Chagoda. Typical Russian wilderness. And the typical Russian road in this wilderness.
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Pikalevo. A small town engaged in the maintenance of a large chemical plant.
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Swamp.
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Real Russia!
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Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant - a giant factory, giving 1/4 of the Russian metal. It is part of Severstal, one of the largest metallurgical plants in the world. (https://gelio.livejournal.com/233932.html)
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Vologda - the old (1264) Russian city, "The City of 100 Churches in the Country of White Forests".
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Gryazovets is a small old Russian town (XVI century), in 1943-1955. - a large center for the maintenance of German prisoners of war ("The stars shine above the Gryazovets").
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Additional photos - https://www.drive2.ru/l/456127452054292922/

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