The Orlov Palaeontological Museum

The largest palaeontological collection in the country and one of the largest anywhere, and its chief part was dug by its own people: the dinosaur skeletons were brought from the Gobi by the Soviet-Mongolian expeditions of the 1940s and 1970s. Roy Chapman Andrews found the Flaming Cliffs for New York in the 1920s and had to leave; the field was worked out afterwards from this side, and the…