Iron Belt
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"The Iron Belt" is the entire Urals in sixty-five days. Powerful cliffs, mystical stone pillars, mysterious ice and underwater caves, dense spruce forests, sunny steppes, transparent lakes, cold waterfalls and mighty rivers; gemstone mines, salt mines, gold fields and diamond dredges; secret hermitages, shamanic sanctuaries, Zoroastrian places of power and fortresses of old monasteries; gloomy wooden gods, scary idols, magical plaques in the animal style and miraculous icons; post-apocalyptic iron monsters of mining plants, Martian skeletons of blast furnaces, palace architecture of old workshops, giant factory ponds and dams, warm wooden salt factories and bizarre water towers; giant buckets of quarry excavators, toy pipes of Cherepanovo first steam locomotives, filigree pattern of Zlatoust blades, purple scattering of amethyst druse and green-eyed pattern of malachite mosaics; chilling spells of pagans, quiet prayers of Ural saints, mysterious plots of Bazhov tales and smart texts from Alexey Ivanov, explaining the secret meanings of this amazing territory - the most industrialized zone of the planet. Fourteen automobile routes, verified logistics, vivid images of cities and towns in texts and author's illustrations - this is your navigator through the Ural civilization. And the stalker is Alexey Ivanov, who in the essay "Ural Matrix" outlined the main strategies for those who, going in search of adventure, consider meanings to be the most valuable trophy.
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