August | 2009 | English Russia

Categories Exclusive, Other, Photos, Russian People

Harvesting time is the busiest period in the Russian agrarian region and it lasts just for a month or so. Once the crops are ripe, they have just 20 days to harvest it or 30 days if they have a special grain drier. The fields are enormous, but as the schedule is tight, hundreds of combines work in fields day and night, processing 6 square kilometers of area per shift, each of them

harvesting 130-160 tones of grain daily. A combine operator gets $1.300 thousand salary a month on the average, and as the work is seasonal he doesn’t earn anything the rest of the year. Each of the working vehicles has air conditioning systems, and with the temperature going above 90 degrees Fahrenheit sitting in the cabin is like sitting in hell.

Categories Funny, Russian People

In ex Soviet countries there are a lot of Star Wars fans

too and they make themed weddings as well.

Categories Culture, Funny, Other, Photos, Russian People

Russian women are often go out with the most famous men in the world. Hey guys, as you know, Russia is a very big country that is rich in oil, gold, and many other natural resources. But what about Russian girls, I think they might be the country’s most valuable natural resource. Russian girls are some of the most beautiful girls in the world. I know this for a fact... Russian people are very diverse genetically, I think this helps Russian girls

be so beautiful, so maybe Mendel knew what he was talking about after all. Tough Russian weather (and sometimes living) conditions teach Russian women many valuable life lessons from an early age such as cooking, cleaning, raising children, and many others. Educational systems that were set up in the time of Nicolas II are still perfect today. So, many Russian girls also are well-educated in addition to being cute.

Categories Culture, Funny, Other, Photos, Russian People

Russian just married couples assumed a long-standing tradition of Italian weddings. They like to hang little or not so little padlocks on bridges as a symbol of their future long and stable married life. If it yet to be figured out if this really helps in preventing cheating or family tiffs, but the couples seem never to stop attaching steal pieces with their names on to the railing of Luzkov bridge, making it look like an ugly sculpture of vain hopes. The Moscow city authorities even set up there a big iron tree, where the happy newly-fledged wives and husbands are to hand their locks (to be totally honest, this pile of garbage on

a stem can scare anyone of any age who sees it). Still, this tree is not as popular as the railing, and two enthusiastic volunteers made up to do things right and remove everything that was sticking out from the bridge railings and had romantic inscriptions. The guys dressed as utility workers waited for wedding processions appear on the bridge and began to cut off the locks in front of shocked brides. 67 trophies and a lot more to return for – that was the result of their hard work. “I wouldn't mess with someone carrying a bolt cutter!", told one of the tough guys. Would you?

Categories Exclusive, Other, Photos, Russian Art

Larisa Churkina makes dolls, which look as real as if they were living beings, and her awesome creations are definitely not for playing. She has a number of exhibitions and also works as a theatre doll creator, but she also creates her dolls for private collections, and any of who wants it can contact her and ask to make a portrait in a miniature. That is not cheap, $2,000 on the

average, but what you get can never be compared to money you pay. Her little figures seem to be totally alive and eager to move, but for some unknown reason they are frozen in papier-mâché, waiting for someone who sets them free. These are not dolls, these are real people shrunk to mini-size. There must have been some of David Blaine’s magic.

Categories Automotive, Exclusive, Photos, Technology

The main problem of drivers in any big city including Moscow is where to park, especially when you are in the centre and there seems to be no free lots for a few decades more. In Europe there are loads of parking paid space, and they even have special buildings just for autos. But here in Russian that’s

not a tradition yet, though, it really should be. One way of solving the problem is constructing multistory automated parking garages, and Muscovites are about to make these glass buildings widely spread (of course, if they will manage to save up money enough to cover enormous expenses).

Explosion at Russian hydroelectric power station

Categories Photos, Technology, Video

Russian "Sayano-Shushenskoe" (yep it's hard to read name) hydro electric power plant is the biggest hydro power plant in Russia, and the biggest (in terms of production) electric generating unit in Russia. It's power output exceeds 6400 Megawatts and is in the Guinness records book. Now, today messages started arriving about a huge explosion on the site. Later, those were confirmed by some official media though according to the

witnesses they underestimate the damage. Here we have the fresh shots from the territory surrounded by emergency services. They tell that eleven people died and fifty-six are missing. The signs of panic appeared among locals from the surrounding villages and towns. They fear that in case of further damage the dam could let the water freely go thus meaning that thousand of houses would be flooded.

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Nature

If you for some reason is in search of some beaches in Russia then you may or may not consider this one from Vladivostok. People say it's the most favorite

beach of Vladivostok, many like spending their summer vacations there. People from all the city come there to enjoy the sun beams and water.

Categories Exclusive, Photos, russian army, Russian People

Yesterday, on Sunday, August 16, two greatest Russian Sukhoi Su-27 planes crashed while doing training exercises over a cottage village. One of the planes stuck into a house like a knife into butter, the second one was led out of the village and fell on the wasteland. One of the pilots died, the two others were saved. The

local people weren’t killed, but the owners of the destroyed house got badly injured with burning fuel from the plane and were immediately taken to hospital. Now the cause of the catastrophe remains unclear, but on the eyewitness account this all could happen because of a bird stuck in the engine.

v 1 500x410 An Italian Affair: Vyatka vs Vespa

Categories Funny

After the Second World War in Italy the carmakers realised that it would be a long time before everyone who needed a car would be able to afford one. So the smart Italians switched to designing and producing motor scooters: these light, affordable, ergonomic Vespas, a low cost product available to everybody. Needless to say, Vespa was the brand of the time (and arguably still is) and it grew more and more popular across Europe, until, in

early 1950s, it reached the USSR. All of a sudden this youthful and cheery means of transportation coincided with the Khrushchev Thaw and it was decided to launch the Soviet line of motor scooters. Machinery wise, it was viable: since the war times, a few factories had been idle, so it was only a matter of design. Modern girl with a vintage scooter. She is probably gloomy over the petrol price.

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