Across Russia's vast expanses, there are so many different urban and rural sights that even the sun seems to rise in a different, though terrific, way in every place.
1. Close up of an epic sunrise in Moscow.
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2. Green Krylatskoye district in Moscow meets dawn.
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3. Moscow City business center under both sun and moon light.
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4. First sun rays reflect in the golden domes of the Kremlin cathedrals.
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5. The Moscow State University illuminated by the dawn sun.
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6. Sakhalin Island's very eastern sunrise.
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7. Vladivostok is one of the first cities to meet the new day in Russia.
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8. A winter sunrise over Novosibirsk.
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9. Dawn over Crimea.
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10. Sun rises over a monastery in Tver Region.
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11. A new day at Swan Lake in the Altai mountains.
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12. Ancient walls of the Tula Kremlin meeting the dawn.
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13. A foggy sunrise over the 12th-century Intercession Church on the Nerl River in Vladimir Region.
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14. The first sunny rays on the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean as seen from the Sedov sailing ship during its round-the-world expedition.
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15. Petersburg drawbridges rise as the sun rises.
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16. A frosty sunrise of wintery St. Petersburg, with the St. Isaac's Cathedral in the backdrop.
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17. Kirovsk alpine ski resort in Murmansk Region meets the first light.
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18. The very first sunrise after a Polar night.
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19. Dawn over the Volga River in Nizhny Novgorod.
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20. Mashuk Mountain in the Caucasus illuminated by the first sun's morning rays.
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