Russian Knights at tribute flight The Kubinka air force base located 60 km west of Moscow is well known both in Russia and abroad. For years, it has been known as the Air Force installation used for demonstrating advanced combat aircraft to national and foreign leaders. Nowadays, Kubinka AFB is known as the best aerobatics school where the Russian Knights and aerobatics teams are stationed.

Russkie pisateli v Parizhe: vzgliad na frantsuzskuiu literaturu. (Moscow: Russkii put'. Harry potter carti audio limba romana. Tatishchev, “O Poplavskom,” Krug 3 (1938), 151.

Meanwhile, Kubinka is a major base of the Russian Air Force in the Moscow region. [ ] Team tragedies [ ] On December 12, 1995, when approaching the Cam Ranh airfield (Vietnam) in adverse weather for refueling, two Su-27s and an Su-27UB of the Russian Knights team flew into a nearby mountain while in-formation, killing four pilots. The cause of the crash is attributed to a misinterpretation of approach-pattern instructions, and in particular the leading that was acting as a reconnaissance aircraft. On August 16, 2009, two Su-27s rehearsing acrobatic maneuvers, killing one pilot and sending the jets crashing into nearby vacation homes. The dead pilot was identified as the Russian Knights' commander, Guards Colonel, a decorated air force officer.

On June 9, 2016, one Su-27 pilot was killed near Moscow as he failed to eject, trying to save homes. See also [ ] • • • References [ ].

As Middle-Eastern merchants traded with the and other people living on the western slopes of the Ural as far north as, since at least the 10th century medieval had been aware of the existence of the mountain range in its entirety, stretching as far as to the Arctic Ocean in the north. The first Russian mention of the mountains to the east of the East European Plain is provided by the, when it describes the expedition to the upper reaches of the in 1096. During the next few centuries Novgorodians engaged in with the local population and collected tribute from and Great Perm, slowly expanding southwards. The rivers and were first mentioned in the chronicles of 1396 and 1468, respectively. In 1430 the town of (Kama Salt) was founded on the at the foothills of the Ural, where salt was. Captured Perm, Pechora and Yugra from the declining Novgorod Republic in 1472.

With the excursions of 1483 and 1499–1500 across the Ural Moscow managed to subjugate Yugra completely. A fragment of 's map Nevertheless, around that time early 16th century Polish geographer in his influential Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis (1517) argued that there were no mountains in Eastern Europe at all, challenging the point of view of some authors of Classical antiquity, popular during the. Only after Sigismund von Herberstein in his (1549) had reported, following Russian sources, that there are mountains behind the Pechora and identified them with the Ripheans and Hyperboreans of ancient authors, did the existence of the Ural, or at least of its northern part, become firmly established in the.

The Middle and Southern Ural were still largely unavailable and unknown to the Russian or Western European geographers. In 1910 In the 1550s, after the had defeated the and proceeded to gradually annex the lands of the Bashkirs, the Russians finally reached the southern part of the mountain chain.

In 1574 they founded. The upper reaches of the Kama and Chusovaya in the Middle Ural, still unexplored, as well as parts of Transuralia still held by the hostile, were granted to the by several decrees of the tsar in 1558–1574. The Stroganovs' land provided the staging ground for 's.

Yermak crossed the Ural from the Chusovaya to the around 1581. In 1597 Babinov's road was built across the Ural from Solikamsk to the valley of the, where the town of (Upper Tura) was founded in 1598.

Customs was established in Verkhoturye shortly thereafter and the road was made the only legal connection between European Russia and Siberia for a long time. In 1648 the town of was founded at the western foothills of the Middle Ural. During the 17th century the first deposits of and ores,, and other minerals were discovered in the Ural. Iron and copper emerged. They multiplied particularly quickly during the reign of. In 1720–1722 he commissioned to oversee and develop the mining and smelting works in the Ural. Tatishchev proposed a new copper smelting factory in, which would eventually become the core of the city of and a new iron smelting factory on the, which would become the largest in the world at the time of construction and give birth to the city of.