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How did Russia get so big?

by adamjb on 3/6/22, 3:29 AM with 2 comments

• by jazzyjackson on 3/6/22, 8:15 AM

  That photo of a rivergoing ship is incredible, I've never seen anything like it, short of Noah's Ark!

  Apparently it is so large because the building material is the cargo, they are deconstructed on arrival:

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belyana