April | 2010 | English Russia

Categories Funny, History, Photos

We are having from time to time here photos of various Russian cities and places made from helicopter, literary at bird eye's sight. Here's one more set made by Dmitry Chistoprudov of Vladimir's region, a place

that is a member of Russian "Gold Chain" - the ring of the cities that are the most touristical attraction due to its historical roots etc. Usually they are full of old churches and stuff.

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Nature, Video

Some Russian guys have encountered this really mad bird. It got in

some mad obsession with their car mirror and car in general.

Categories Photos, Russian Art, Society

Graffiti in Pripyat is directly connected to the motive of the lost childhood and fear of the artists painting the abandoned town. This place causes mingled feelings: interest from

one side and pity from the other. Pity for those people who used to live here and especially children whose childhood was stolen. Here is top 10 of sad Pripyat graffiti.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Society, Video

From the title it's hard to understand what is this video all about, but it is just straight as it goes - in Russia, in Moscow specifically, you can go to

the subway station with a giant Toyota SUV scaring late night subway visitors and even police patrol (in the end of the video) won't stop you.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Photos, Society, Technology

In Russia it's April so that's a hot time to go and saw some ice. For this you have some very cool equipment ready. Those shots are from

Arkhangelsk city, the port on the White Sea - they've got awesome giant chainsaws to go and help the river Dvina to crack its ice open.

Categories Funny, History, Photos, Russian People

Another example of weird Lenin statue. Now, it has a following history. First installed in Communists times (no wonder), it was staying there for years, until somewhere in modern times some Russian kids didn't smash its head off. So it stayed for a long time with a crushed

head covered with a plastic bag. But later, local red party activists have got some sculptor involved to restore the original look of their idol, and.. as a result he got the head in place but it came out he got some mistakes in scaling the thing out.

Categories Automotive, Photos, Russian People, Society

On April the First fool's day the police of Russian city Krasnoyarsk decided to play a prank on the local drivers. They have got dark skinned guys dressed as road policemen to pull the cars off the road for paper checks. In Russia you won't usually see an African policemen, simply because the population of dark

skinned people in Russia is much less than one percent. So it was really surprising for the most of the drivers. Also, when such photos were posted by a Russian language blogger he was accused in racism. All because of the title he choose. It said: "And now we take bribes in bananas."

Categories Exclusive, Other, Photos

Many representatives of Soviet generation still remember the time of their youth falling into nostalgia for those days. They used to smell like warm pastry. On this

photo is an old cafe "Almaz" that sold a big variety of cakes that are probably still remembered by its frequent visitors with warmth and nostalgic smile.