September | 2009 | English Russia

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No doubt photography was a popular art in the USSR. Here and below are pictures taken by the people all over the Soviet state of Moldavia. Today’s set based

on the book called “Moldavian Art of photography”, Kishinev (recently renamed to Chisinau), 1985. Portrait of a Worker by M. Potyrnike

Categories History, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society

Russia. 100 Years Ago. Again. We had it from Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky whose photos are being stored in the Library of Congress in USA, but now it's totally different case. Photos were made by Czech photographer while on his travel thru Russia back in

the year 1896. Most of them were lost later due to two wars in Europe and other tragical things but some still managed to survive till our year 2009 and now we can see them here. It's a big pity that there are only such a few of them left.

Categories Funny, Russian People, Technology, Video

Remember that blast on Russian hydro power station? We had it here and here. Now there are

surveylance cams video footage has been released, that's where real panic is.

Categories Funny, Photos

ZAZ was one of the biggest car manufacturers of Soviet Russia producing small Zaporozhets cars. It was coupe and some say inspired by Ferdinand Porsche design. These days

it's on Ukraine and produces some other cars. And it got fire today in the section where the new cars get painted. Looks like this car paint burns well.

Categories Automotive, Funny, History, Russian People

Today we are having some various finds from Russian blogs recently. Like

this brown fish none could identify for sure what it was.

Categories Funny, History, Russian Art, Russian People, Video

Speaking about music, this one was big in Russian

blogs lately. They call it best Beatles cover yet.

Categories Funny, Russian Art, Russian People, Video

Looks like people of Kazakhstan

know English and know Tupac.

Categories Funny, History, Russian Art

Russian town Tula was known for many years through history for a few things were told to be the best if bought from Tula. Those were "samovars" - Russian giant tea pots, "pryaniki" - Russian gingerbread and "pushka" - Russian cannons as well as many more Russian small arms, like rifles for example. With the

coming of modern times most of the traditional crafts become more and more forgotten but still they have some weapon factories and gingerbread bakeries there, so the legend still lives somehow. That's why one of the first points of interest which tourists have in Tula is arms museum.

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In early 1930s without any licensing arrangements the Soviet engineers copied the first limousine car for the Communist party executives. In 1932 six limousines were copied off the American Buick 90L. However, later the factory production line was switched to producing caterpillar tractors,so the limousine business was shifted to Moscow Stalin Factory. ZIS-101 The car, based on the engine of the Buick and the body copied off the Cadillac, was given another non-poetic name, ZIS — 101. It also had Buick radiator bars. By

the beginning of the Second World War there were three huge car factories in the USSR. Despite the fact that the USSR already had its own highly educated and talented engineers, the very first post-war limousine ZIS-110 was also a copy of an obsolete American car. When making a decision about the launch of a new car, the engineers selected four models – Packard 180, Packard Clipper, Cadillac 75 and Cadillac 63. Stalin himself was to make the decision, and he picked the Packard 180.

Categories Funny, Russian People, Society, Video

You probably think you've seen big wedding corteges or celebrations, but for sure those you've seen can't compare with modern Chechn wedding celebrations. Like this one on the video above.

A few police support cars are the must, as well as shooting in the air - that's a tradition. And of course if its in Moscow it's even more fun. sent by Evgeny

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