Barnaul is a city on the western banks of the Ob River in the Altai Krai region of Siberia, Russia. Set along the river, Nagorny Park contains old tombs, plus the city’s name in large letters. Nearby, Altai State Museum of Local Lore documents military and mining history in a 19th-century building. The red-brick Pokrovsky Cathedral is topped with blue domes. To the northwest, Barnaul Zoo is home to lions and wolves.
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Russia, the world?s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It?s famous for Moscow's Bolshoi and St. Petersburg's Mariinsky ballet companies. St. Petersburg, founded by Russian leader Peter the Great, has the baroque Winter Palace, now housing part of the State Hermitage Museum?s art collection.

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