laststandonzombieisland

The Ural Mountains are the closest thing that Russia has to the Appalachians. This line of hills separate Europe from Asia, Western Russia from Siberia, and were only settled by Europeans about the same time the New World was. Things move at a different pace in the Urals. Even in Russia, there is a very back-woods feel to the region. This is where the last Tsar and his family were taken to for their infamous execution in 1918, the hard mountain locals having no qualms about getting their hands dirty. This is where Stalin hid his weapons factories and secret design bureaus over which CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down in his U-2 spy plane in 1960. You just never know what you are going to find there….

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