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Putin's Russia

Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yakutsk 22 November 2007.Crossing a frozen river in the city of Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic in Outer Far Eastern Russia. . Yakutsk is one of Russia's remotest cities which lies on a permafrost that never thaws, buildings therefore have to be built on stilts to prevent the structures heat from melting the foundations, causing subsidence.

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Putin's Russia
Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yakutsk 22 November 2007.Crossing a frozen river in the city of Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic in Outer Far Eastern Russia. . Yakutsk is one of Russia's remotest cities which lies on a permafrost that never thaws, buildings therefore have to be built on stilts to prevent the structures heat from melting the foundations, causing subsidence.
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