Others
We present a collection of photographs and other information that have been sent to us by visitors and other friends of CERES which will be, as we hope, interesting or maybe even exciting and fun.
Kugitangtau mountains in Turkmenistan, Kap-Kutan
We begin with the miraculous sites of Vladimir Maltsev. He is a geologist, programmer, traveler, writer, photo-designer. He is from a famous scientific family.
We have provided this link for students of Center for European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CERS), studying Turkmenistan geography features. You can see Kugitangtau (Kugitangtau is a word combined from Turkic and Persian roots and means “a mountain with narrow gorges”) mountains in Turkmenistan and caves of the system Kap-Kutan (one from cave system of Kugitangtau, there are about 10 such systems) clicking ''фотогалерея"
in the top menu of the site http://www.geo-art.ru/
and after coming to new page with set of galleries choose one from the following
В местах непроходимых, но прекрасных... Пустыни и каньоны Кугитангских гор в Туркмении. (It is about Deserts and canyons of Kugitangtau mountains in Turkmenistan)
Каменные Цветы или эволюция в неорганике... Макросъемка... Минералы... Преимущественно - пещерные... Большей частию - из Кап-Кутана.. (It is about Stone flowers from caves, mostly from Kap-Kutan)
Путешествие по гипсовым лесам... Пещеры Кугитанга и Эль-Капитана... (It is about a Journey in plaster forests in caves of Kugitangtau mountains in Turkmenistan and in caves of Guadalupe mountains and El-Capitan in New Mexico, USA)
After choosing, for instance, the second gallery
click "расширить галерею"
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on the top of a photos column.
You can also find some of his interesting pictures at http://www.fadr.msu.ru/caves/malpic_r.html (this site is affiliated with Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU of Lomonosov))
Here we see V.Maltsev in a narrow hole, unique "glass" plaster antholites, cave lake.
State Hermitage in St.Petersburg (Russia)
Here is the State Hermitage in St.Petersburg (Russia). The Hermitage collection of works of art (over 3,000,000 items) presents the development of the world culture and art from the beginning of human history to contemporary times. We invite you to look at the information of the State Hermitage Museum and its treasures.
