A memory of an autumn trip to the Southern Urals. The grass is still green, it is warm, the sky is blue with clouds... This place is in Bashkiria, it is believed that the Ural Mountains begin in these

The ruins of an old manor house. Near a small village, in the thickets that have grown on the site of the former garden of a local landowner. They say that in the summer you can find raspberries, apples

Several photos of cats taken during the last November trip. All cats were fed after the photo session. The cat in the first 4 photos looks like a domestic cat, but nevertheless ate two whole bags of food.

A few photos of a cold November forest. The forest, unfortunately, has no official name, but people call it the Racheiskaya taiga. It is located in the Syzran district of the Samara region. Mostly coniferous

A few more photos from an abandoned village in the Ulyanovsk region. The village was inhabited about 15 years ago, but even then only a few residents lived here. Now you can only meet treasure hunters

In one of the deserted villages of the Ulyanovsk region, a former church building rises. The altar in it is in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God. The church was built in 1899, and not

A small selection of ancient fossils found on the banks of the Volga, not far from the Undoria Geopark, Ulyanovsk Region. Ammonites, "devil's fingers" and other ancient shells. In general, these

Cold landscapes of the Volga bank and the Volga River. The beginning of November, not too cold yet, the daytime temperature was around +3 degrees, but due to the strong wind it sometimes seemed that the

Once upon a time, several decades ago, there was a rather prosperous settlement here. Its basis was a large plant for the production of reinforced concrete and products from it. In the 90s, production

One of the most vivid memories from the autumn trip to the Ural Mountains is the sunrise on the Karatash Ridge. Not long ago there was a post with some of the pictures, but now I decided to publish the

A small selection of photos of moss from a trip to the Ural Mountains. There is a lot of it there, different varieties. In some places it is very fluffy, you walk on it, and it is as if on a soft feather

Southern Urals, the outskirts of the city of Bakal. There are quarries for mining minerals everywhere, some are active, and some have long been exhausted and abandoned. Over time, they fill with water,

Rattle's photo session from the last trip for the November holidays. We didn't travel that much, only about 1000 kilometers in three days. On this trip, surprisingly, we didn't get stuck anywhere, nothing

In a small Bashkir village, in the local cemetery there is an interesting structure. At least, that's how it was described on some websites. That it is an ancient mausoleum, almost in the 15th century

Another completely abandoned village in the Ulyanovsk region. Only a little bit has been preserved here, a few wooden houses, the ruins of a brick manor and a church. But there is also a new building -

A short virtual walk through a cold November forest. There is a small amount of snow here and there, but still very little. And I don't think there is more now. The weather has been snowless lately, and

An unusual industrial monument in a small town in the Ural Mountains. The town of Tirlyansky. Once upon a time there was a large metallurgical plant here, but production gradually declined. And in 1994,

The bank of the Volga in the Ulyanovsk region. Once upon a time there was a settlement of miners who extracted minerals called oil shale. They mined them in horizontal adits. The settlement was called

In the Samara region, not far from the city of Syzran, on the bank of the Volga there is an interesting underground object. Pervomayskiye bitumen adits. Bituminous limestone was mined in these adits, and

The oldest structure in the Samarskaya Luka National Park is the ruins of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. According to official information, the church was built in 1714. It was closed in