Kodar Mountain Range in Zabaykalsky (Transbaikalia) Krai, Russia
Take a look at breath-taking summer photographs of Kodar Mountains in the area of Pik BAM near Novaya Chara railway station. It’s in Transbaikalia in the formerly-known Chita Oblast, Siberia / Russia. Pictures by Ekaterina Ipatieva.
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This summer I met a Moscow independent traveller named Vladimir, who was on his long overland journey from Norilsk to Magadan. He said, “When back home, I’ll send you photographs of Lake Lama located 140 km east off the Taimyr city of Norilsk. It deserves to be at SiberianWonders as it is a wonder itself…” Weeks later I received a bunch of promised pictures…
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