September | 2007 | English Russia

Categories Business, Culture, History, Photos, Russian Art

We've also told about Soviet promotional posters intended for the foreign tourists and visitors. Here are more of them. The author of this collection, David Levine, says that "Russia in the period before

the mid 1930s employed some brilliant graphic design in its arts, propaganda and newspapers and magazines". Is that true? Just look at these travel brochures, booklets and luggage labels.

the coolest yard in St. Petersburg, Russia 1

Categories Photos, Russian Art, Society

People in St. Petersburg say that this is probably the coolest public yard in the city. It's not a private territory of some private house, no, it's a public place lost somewhere between multi-stored

houses of St. Petersburg, but one who walks in for the first time gets shocked by the variety of mosaic sculptures and bas-reliefs scattered across the small territory of this yard.

Categories Funny, Russian Art, Video

Some Russian bloggers call him "The Incarnation of Satan", some just post videos with him. This old man rumbles through the streets of Moscow singing

the songs in such a passion and strength that people stat hypnotized watching him performing those masterpieces. See the small video:

Categories Funny, Other, Society

When your fridge suddenly becomes empty together with your pockets, there exists one easy salvation how to make a dinner even for ten persons. First of all you should go to the nearest forest and gather crayfishes there, or whatever, we don't know where those Russians find those cancers. Their number should be enough to fill the bathroom. Here we have to notice, that the bathroom full of crabs (or what's their name?) of course looks ridiculous but is the most important aspect in cooking, because if you are too tired or drunk or whatever again, and need to have an instant break, they will still be alive and fresh, swimming in your bathroom. But don't fill it to the brim, these creatures are very sly and can easily

get out, kill you while you are sleeping and move out to the forest. So be attentive and better barricade the door in the bath-room or barricade yourself to make sure. So have a good and safely rest, then wake up, take several packings of sour cream and pour it out in the bathroom! The crabs like the sour cream and will stain in it. This makes them more delicious. Don't try to spread them with the sour cream by your own hands, it can be dangerous. After all wash them with a shower, fill the bathroom with clean water, and turn on the immersion heater. The dinner is ready. Of course, keep in mind that you will need about bucket of beer to eat all those crabs.

UAZ car with tracks instead of wheels in Russia 1

Categories Fiction, Funny, Photos, Technology

One Russian farmer got tired to get to his farm always in the way like on the photo above so he decided to replace the wheels with tracks on his Russian UAZ car: Now it's

for sale and he says that he can satisfy the market with his own version of UAZ, UAZ-Tracked Edition. Probably each farmer dreams of his own small tank.

photos from Military-historical museum of armored vehicles and armament of Main auto-tank directorate of Defense ministry of Russian Federation 1

Categories History, Photos, Technology

While staying in Russia don't forget to visit Military-historical museum of armored vehicles and armament of Main auto-tank directorate of Defense ministry of Russian Federation, known as "Kubinka" and located in Odintsovo district near Moscow. The official web site says that the "museum presents the unique, world's biggest

collection of armored vehicles starting from WWI first constructions to modern main battle tanks. Collection was founded in 1931 and is still growing with new battlefield findings and army write-offs, with present-day count of more than 300 vehicles". Here are some examples of the exhibits.

Macintosh finder icon on Russian barbeque set 1

Categories Funny, Photos, Technology

Many people, who use Macintosh computers know the icon above. This icon is from the "Finder" application (similar to Windows explorer program). You can see it on the desktop of our reader. But what they do in Russia they sell barbeque sets with

a little shovel in shape of the Finder icon. Macintosh computers are not very popular in Russia, so they can't appeal for the fans of iMac iPhone and now iBarbeque stuff, but what is it then? See photos of this set:

Russian magnet lids that you can put on the fridge 1

Categories Funny, Photos, Technology

One Russian designer thinks about offering to the producers of the soft drinks to put a little magnet on the inside part of the bottle's lid, so that this lid can be be sticked to the fridge or some other metal surfaces. He says "Just imagine, different soft-drink or alike producers can make different colorful lids that won't be thrown away

but would be collected by kids or even by grown-ups. They could even put the alphabet on it or some other collectibles. I would buy it!". He also say he thinks that this idea is unique to him, he tried to find some mentions about such lids in the Google but has found none. This how he sees it can be implemented: