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Experimental modification of Volga - Gaz-24-95 landrover 1

Categories History, Photos, Technology

In USSR Gaz-24 (Volga) was a dream of every soviet citizen. This luxurious automobile was being produced in Gorkovsky car factory for the middle and upper classes in 70-s and 80-s. Also it was widely used as a taxi cab. But almost nobody knows, that in 1973-74 was developed the experimental modification of Volga -

Gaz-24-95, which had all-wheel drive and other elements, turned it into the real and unique landrover with good cross-country capacity. It is known, that there were produced only 5 copies and one of them was the property of Leonid Illich Brezhnev (old soviet leader). Some photos after the jump.

Categories Photos

It can be real breaking news - just one hour ago a big explosion happened in St. Petersburg downtown. Many local bloggers started posting photos of 16-stored house high fire. People say that the explosion was

so loud that it was heard at all the parts of the Russia second most populated city. More updates would follow shortly. No comments from authorities were yet made. More photos and videos:

Colossal traffic jam in Vladivostok city 1

Categories Photos, Society

This is probably the biggest traffic jam of right handed cars going on the right lane. This is Vladivostok, Far-East of Russia, 4000 miles away from Moscow and just a few miles to Japan, so majority of used cars

are the imported Japan cars with right placement of the steering wheel, even authorities and police use these cars, but the roads are like in all rest of Russia are right sided so it's just a mess.

The woman have grown thin from 120 kilos to 60 1

Categories Photos, Society

This Russian woman, Ekaterina Mirimanova, decided to grow thin. It took her about one and a half a year, but after all she made that, have dropped

120 pounds 230 lbs kilos down to 110 (120 kg down to 60 kg). One can hardly believe, but now she has an appearance of the model.

Categories Photos, Russian Art, Technology

In our recent publications we told about the strange truck, spotted in Russia. It looks like

just stepped out the Mad Max movie. Now we've got more pictures of this weird vehicle.

Categories Photos, Society

Below one can see how a jealous girl revenged her ex-boyfriend, smeared his car with some foam. As a result, now he doesn't have any possibility

to date with his new mistress. It's not the first time Russian girls prefer the foam as a revenge weapon, we had it here once too.

Categories Funny, Photos

So we had some flood posts lately from various Russian cities due to lots of rains during this summer. And now,

finally, somebody has found how to make use of the flooded streets. Meet the Russian street surfers...

Categories Funny, Photos

In Russian city Voronezh now one can see a strange monument of the horse. It's a 3 ton steel horse with probably offensive for

somebody rear view, though it stands in a very busy place so thousands of people see it daily and this horse eats rails.

Categories Photos

A few photos of recent "baby tornado"

in the skies of St. Petersburg.

Categories Photos, Society

It may seem strange, but this powerful military prime mover has fallen a victim to Russian roads. The driver tried to turn round his vehicle but, because of large size, it firmly got

stuck in mud near the motorway. The militaries tried too pull it out with another prime mover but unfortunately there was no result. It's destiny is still unknown.

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