This photo album is devoted to the Soviet aviation 1941-1945. Check out the aircrafts used to defend the USSR and other countries from the Nazi enemy. Aircraft mechanics of the Leningrad front are preparing the bomber for a new flight, … Read more...

Do we really know what is there, out in space? Not really much, we can only look at stars or … hear them. Smart radiophysicist gave us such an opportunity when had built their huge metal plates in dense pine forests … Read more...

It is known that Prokudin-Gorsky was taking pictures of the battleship “Potemkin” in 1905, but unfortunately those unique photographs were lost together with other original works from photo collection devoted to Sevastopol. The pictures shown in this post give you … Read more...

The picture you see to the right was taken in a Russian city Nizhnevartovsk. But what is this supposed to mean? Was the city being attacked by aliens? Nope! It’s the stela symbolizing a drill rig! Doesn’t it look creepy? … Read more...

This is another hydro power plant of North Ossetia – Zaramagskaya HPP. It is definitely worth visiting. The whole structure is very complicated and divided into two interconnected plants – the main one and the one being built, HPP-1. When … Read more...

Can you say what is special about this fire truck? The thing is that it’s fully made of cardboard! Have you guessed already? The thing is that it’s fully made of cardboard! This is how the wheel was being made, … Read more...

This post is about the hotel “Moskva”, one of the biggest and most splendid Soviet hotels. It occupies the whole residential quarter. “Moskva” became one of the first hotels built in Soviet Moscow. “Moskva” hotel. Beginning of the construction – … Read more...

There have been a blizzard in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and they need to remove all this snow somehow… Maybe this way?

Work in a hospital is never easy. To withstand difficult days at work, nurses have to treat it differently, to pose around people so bad ill that can’t move and then post it online. This is how these medical workers … Read more...

Odessa catacombs formed at the place of a quarry. The city was growing very fast and they needed a lot of shell rock (it’s the main construction material in Odessa). The length of the catacombs is 3000 km! “Undying glory … Read more...

This family shows how their cat can swim with such enthusiasm! But their cat does not seem to like this at all. We wish the poor kitty to find another loving family…

Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has found an unusual way to be everywhere and always in time. Now he has an exact copy of himself who can replace him if necessary. It’s so convenient to have a twin! … Read more...

This mine does not look hopeful: all these rusty staits, water dripping from everywhere, falling stones, a lot of mud… The place has been abandoned long ago. via zapret-no

Somewhere in Kiev is such an interesting appartment home lobby. It is really crazy! All these icons, statuettes, artificial flowers immured in the chaotic masses of cement colored with sprayers – even doctors coming here on calls are said to … Read more...

This is the Moscow Helicopter Building Factory named after M. Mil’ which is a part of the holiding “Helicopters of Russia”. In fact not everything is allowed to be shown here and the place is rather big to see most … Read more...

This guy is nobody but the person who kidnapped the son of a famous programmer and businessman Evgeniy Kaspersky and who’s serving his sentence now. On the photo above he is sitting in the Kremlin office of the Russian president. … Read more...

Can you guess what it is and what it is used for? It’s a unique razor sharpener that has been invented in the USSR:

Right now we are going to visit a beautiful “Leningradskaya” hotel in Moscow – one of the famous seven Stalin’s skyscrapers. “Leningradskaya” hotel. via orbicraft

Luckily for the baby of this woman a company of strangers were following them to prevent anything bad that could happen…

One talented woman agreed to paint the walls in the kindergarten of her child. We want to show that part of her work where she used UV bulbs and UV paints. via ogel13