The Northern part of the Caspian Sea attracts poachers by sturgeon spawning. Day and night the border guards perform trawling of the sea bottom, protecting water from nets, hook and line gears. Somet...
Gorkovskaya power plant is called Nizhegorodskaya today. The settlement of the workers turned into the whole city in the Trans-Volga region. Nizhegorodskaya power plant is rather impressive. No wonde...
At the Minsk Tractor Plant, 1960. Compare to modern plants. Location: Minsk, Belarus via humus
Probably there are no people who do not like pilau. Let’s cook it in a proper pot on an ordinary gas stove. What we need: - about 1,5 kg of mutton or pork. - 3 glasses of rice (it must … ...
Check out the process of a greenhouse making. A right-angle frame should be made first. Dimensions of this greenhouse are 2x6m. Frame Attic elements – 7 pcs of this kind Welding Window making I...
Last time we began to walk along Khiva, why not continue the tour today? People, mosaic and wood carving are inside the post. The walls of Itchan Kala had been reliably protecting the city for a thou...
Abkhazian town Tkvarchal is pretty much similar to some decorations of “Silent Hill” horror movie. It’s a mysterious mining town under which coal has already been burning for many y...
The decision to build a new traffic control centre was made in 1973. Necessary equipment was imported from Sweden. The object was complete in 1980 and put into service in 1981. Air streams many hundr...
The biggest collection of school leavers 2012. Enjoy!
Let us present you a special all-wheel drive vehicle “Scorpion-LSHA” under the index “Scorpion-2M” and a multi-purpose armoured car “Scorpion-LSHA B.” A few words ...
A set of photos featuring Minsk in 1960. Solemn event on the occasion of the departure of the 5th tank corps (?), June 1960 via humus
Soon the first prototype model of Georgian production will be ready! They plan to export the tanks to allied countries of NATO including Pakistan and Iraq. Some external drawings of the tank are for ...
In Dagestan one may find such a wonder – a shaft-sinking and tunnelling complex Robbins (USA) that overcame 5 km in the mountains?! It used to be a diversion tunnel 5,2 km long from the dam to ...
A lot of the hoofed animals live in this place in almost unrestricted conditions. This wild steppe territory is some thousands hectares big and it’s situated on the border between the Rostov re...
Some photographs of Su-24 overland and in the air. via faber-fortunae
In May, 15, 1935 the first trains began to operate in Moscow. They started from the depot “Severnoye” (“Northern”), the first depot of the Moscow metropolitan. It has been ser...
Microminiature is a rare kind of art representing creation of tiny amazing things under a microscope. Vladimir Aniskin is one of microminiature masters. He lives in Novosibirsk. Some of his works are...
Desite the fact that a separate elevator going up to the spire is locked, a guard stands at the exit, there are a lot of sensors and cameras, and under the star is equipment of armed forces of the RF...
Some rare photos dated 1917. Meetings on Pushkin square, that’s how it began in February Cadets defending the Kremlin Revolutionary forces arranged artillery bombardment of the Kremlin Beklimis...
You have seen this woman named Nina in one of our posts, but she indeed deserves a separate post.
A Russian military plane An-30 while performing a flight within “the Open Sky” mission went on the runway in the Czech Republic and started burning. 19 people suffered, most of them are i...
There is an amazing place in the very centre of Russia, the Nizhegorodsk region. On the maps it is called the Krasnooktyabrsky district but the locals call it Misharistan. It’s the land so much...
Three new vehicles were taken to Domodedovo airport in Moscow the other day: Boeing-747-8F Air Bridge Cargo, An -124-100 “Ruslan” an Il-76ТД-90ВД of “Volga Dniper” company. No...
In May, 15th there revered memory of the first president of the Chechen Republic Akhmat Kadyrov. Some photos of the festive city. Location: Grozny via petrushanov
Drag racing competition Moscow Unlim 500+ annually attracts owners of supercars from different regions of Russia and even Europe. Only cars of 500 hp and more are allowed to participate. All p...
Vladimit lives in Tetyushi, Tatarstan. Working at a plant he looked at metal chips in a different way than others – like at the material for creativity. Now he tries to find better ways in this...
FEMEN activists made three attempts to throw down the UEFA cup of EURO 2012. FEMEN blame UEFA for sex-tourism propaganda. The 1st attempt in Kiev The 2nd attempt in Dnepropetrovsk And the 3rd attempt...
Amazing photographs from a National Geographic contest “Russian North”. Freshening Russian beauty. “Marble canyon” nature reserve, Pitkyarantsky district, Karelia North wind L...
1993 in photos of Gennady Mikheev. “Give a word to people!” Erotic melodrama, Sex school “We want to live” “We are Russians! God’s with us!” “I will be...
Let’s fly over St. Petersburg at heights 300 and 1200 meters. Location: St. Petersburg via crimson-zeus
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