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Double-glazing — production technology
Glass architecture helps to create the unforgettable image of the modern city. Its originality, lightness and transparency combined with high heat and sound insulation properties have made glass structures and styles popular among architects and designers all over the world. Using modern construction technology professionals can create a project of any shape or size; however they will all undoubtedly be constructed using insulated glass units. Tune in to RTG TV and find out just how the glass panels that make up the face of modern buildings are made.
Zelenchuksky Astrophysics Observatory
A telescope with a mirror that measures six feet across and that was once the largest in the world can be found in the mountains of the Republic of Karachaeva-Cherkessia. This altazimuth telescope is positioned at an altitude of more than 2,000 metres - a good point from which to research the astrological climate of outer space. The area’s almost perfect atmosphere, the high number of clear nights and the large distance from manufacturing plants are what make it so ideal. It is thanks to these factors that Russian astronomers and scientists from abroad are able to look at and examine the starry sky. What is so special about the six-metre telescope is its Alt-azimuth mount. This mount allows the telescope to move along the horizontal and vertical axes, giving scientists the opportunity to focus more closely on a specific area of the sky to study the galaxies and stars. The telescope is on...
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Zelenchuksky Astrophysics Observatory
The Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia’s first botanical garden, the pharmaceutical garden, was established in the Kremlin under the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in 1581. Plants from overseas were collected and cultivated here in order to prepare medicines. Nowadays botanical gardens are primarily research centres, thanks to which a variety of plants have been preserved on the planet. The main botanical garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences is national property of Russia and is the largest botanical garden in Europe by area with its contents including 18,000 plants.
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