Some photos from Uzbekistan, former part
of Soviet Russia by Borzih Victor.
Shots from Russian streets back from 1977, probably
the most prosperous time of the Soviet society.
Those are two bullets, French and Russian collided in the air, back at 1854 during the war in Russia at Crimea peninsula. People say
that a probability odds for this to happen is one to a billion, and to find such 150 years laters was also a great luck.
When the parking lots are small and the surrounding residential buildings are big and
populated they have to park the cars this way. Probably, they access the cars from behind.
Categories Photos, Society, Technology
We had Moscow from air and St. Petersburg from air, now
Tver city and its outskirts, photos by Russos.
This vantage photo of poor Russian family back from 1925 listening to
the radio. People then made their corrections to the photo.
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in the
modern world's history into space.
![No Smoking Please [updated]](http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/plugins/ttftitles/cache/0c73fb97a024a8befdf3b7b94b2dc5da.png){kind=small}
Well, probably one of the most creative ways to break persons will for smoking is being implemented in Russia. Sometimes when one's buying his next pack of Winston he is
under the risk of not being satisfied. At least in some Russian cities such cigarettes that are not suitable for smoking are on sale and any smoker can fail now.
We have mentioned already this monument for it's weirdness and horse heads, but now some
enthusiastic and creative Moscow youngsters has modded it to even higher degree of weirdness.
In Soviet state they also have cared about the road safety. Though, there were some peculiarities linked with such propaganda. Like, for example, because there are not many cars in Russia and even in Moscow, like in North Korea nowadays, and the roads were wide and paved - so kids used them for their football/soccer games, one or two cars in
hour passing by didn't cause much interruption to their game. Then more and more cars appeared on the roads and such kids fun could cause accidents to happen, so the piece of artwork from above was devoted to this problem, condemning the adults who rather more interested in game itself than in securing the kids.
