November | 2009 | English Russia

Categories Culture, Exclusive, Other, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People

The bird seems frozen. The wings are spread wide. Looking so alive, it seems almost unbelievable that it is made of cembra pine wood chips. Artist Sergey Bobkov spent half a year to produce this wonderful eagle, working with practically no days off, 10 to 12 (and sometimes even 14) hours a day.

No wonder! It took about 7 thousand feathers to make the plumage! But it is definitely worth it – the result does not differ much from its living prototype. Artist’s collection consists of all kinds of birds and animals: life-size sables, squirrels, owls and so on.

Categories Culture, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People, Society

This monument called Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa) was made for one of studios in VDNKH and first time displayed in Paris in 1937. There was hold a competition for the post of a chief architect and one of the

famous Soviet architects at that time, V. I. Mukhina, won the contest. The memorial of an impressive size was created. But while transporting the statue from France to Russia after the exhibition it was heavily damaged.

Categories Funny, Other, Photos, Russian People, Science

Who is this weird-looking man on the picture? Why he has such a funny beard and glasses? What is he doing in this article, on the very main page and how does it

connected with Russia? And more importantly, what’s wrong with this vest of his and why the hell he needs so many pockets on it? Fishing all the secrets out.

Categories Exclusive, Funny, Other, Photos, Russian People, Technology

Municipal journalists were preparing a report about a local constructor. He showed some of

his works and one of them was the machine for water purification. Let’s watch!

Categories Other, Photos, Technology

Cars are absolutely different. There are some very small cars like smart and also there are really big cars. Really goddamn

big cars like these BELAZ ones. They are made for above-ground means, and each of them is a real rock handler.

Categories Exclusive, Funny, History, Photos, Russian People

“Retro” is in fashion today, so we will look through the old issues and the new ones to see what was funny many years ago and pretty recently. It turned out that

that the jokes are like dresses- the older they are the less attractive they become, and we laugh now at something what was serious and important then.

Categories Culture, Exclusive, Russian People, Society

It is a common belief that the USSR was a closed country from both inside and outside and authorities were keeping iron

curtain stay still during the whole existence of the country. But this insight here is to bring these delusions over.

Categories Funny, Russian People, Society

A funny video of people in the morning catching some train to the city in Moscow. The

ones going down there are the ones who don't want to pass ticket checking gate.

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Nature

It looks like autumns in Latvia are really

nice. It worth taking a look.

Categories Funny, History, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People

In Russia and other post Soviet countries there were a real craze on independence after they finally got it with USSR collapse. Sometimes this took some weird forms like, for example, making the globes of their own country. Yes, those were just like regular globes we used to see on geography classes but instead the whole world only their own country was mapped on it. These things were officially on sale and still you can buy

something like "the globe of Ukraine" in shops of Kiev. So then people went further and decided to make the globes of their local cities or even villages. With modern technologies this can be done by practically anyone just in a few minutes and then can be used to amaze the friends and relative. We'll show you how. As a result we can get such neat globe of your place like on the picture above.

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