May | 2010 | English Russia

Categories Photos, Russian People, Technology

Once we had a story about some personal railway, no another Russian hero Leonid Murlyanchik has been building his metro alone since 1984. All materials

are bought for his retired fee. Construction is not over yet. By the way Leonid has all necessary documents and permits for this metro.

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian People, Sports

For sure those soccer fans from Ukraine know how to attract attention. Some say they want to support their team in this way but other argue that

this rather distracts the team and makes it harder to concentrate on the game. You decide, it's all on this video footage below.

Categories Society

In Samarqand is an astonishing gypsies' block and if you have a chance to be in this city you just have to visit

it! Formerly this place used to be inhabited by Jews but when they left it was settled by Gypsies.

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian People

Recently they have cancelled strict certification for food products they had before in place in Russia. Some think that's a cool move - before you even couldn't sell a cookie you bake without getting it certified which involved some heavy visits to authorities and getting many time and efforts wasted. So now it should be easier for farmers and food producers to

market their stuff. But, as it always happens a rise of a "dark" entrepreneurship. This one particular company was getting a lot of chicken that was already not suitable to be sold and used some chemicals injections to give it an attractive look. They say it is not the only company but there are plenty of such using those "technologies".

Categories Funny, Russian Nature, Science, Technology, Video

All Russia is sitting puzzled near their TVs looking on the... wobbling bridge. This phenomena is taking place in on of the Russian towns. The bridge stands across the Volga river and people say that there are absolutely no technical reasons why it should behave like that. It stayed normal for a long time but now it went crazy

without any reasonable reason - there were no earthquakes or strong winds in the area, however I bet you've never saw anything like that, when a heavy concrete bridge paved with a good deal of road surface dances like a soft rubber ribbon. Here is the video too. update: second video has been added

Categories Funny, Russian People, Society

Such blue pails are usually used to protest against police flashers

as they look alike. But some protestants go over the edge ...

Categories Russian Nature

This weird forest is located about 38km away from Curonian Spit, a national park in the Baltic Sea. Dancing forest is a unique natural phenomenon. Here the pines bend in odd postures, as if dancing. Some trunks are even convolute in rings. There is a belief - if one get

through such ring making a wish, it will come true. Another belief says that places where trunks make such rings are the borders of positive and negative energy and if you get through the ring from the proper side, your life will be one year longer.

Categories Russian People

A great portraits collection of the Great Patriotic War

veterans. Photos were taken in 2006 by James Hill in Gorky Park.

Khabarovsk City - Russian Far East Capital of the 80s 1

Categories Exclusive, Photos, Society

Vintage photos of Khabarovsk city of the 80s. This nice city is still rather attractive and hospitable. In 2008 Khabarovsk became a winner of the

All-Russian competition "The most well-planned city of Russia" in the nomination "The city with population over 500 thousand citizens".

$That\'s How Houses Move 1$

Categories Other, Photos

To make streets wider and for redevelopment in pre-war Moscow about 100 houses and buildings were moved. They were shifted together with lodgers and during the moving process plumbing, sewage etc. were still working. Thus, for example, in January 1937, there was moved a laboratory house of a records factory in

Aprelevka weighing 690 tons. It was followed by five small buildings preventing breakthrough of the Moscow river near Serebryanny Bor. Here specialists mastered complicated lines of the buildings shift - change of movement direction, turns. Here hydraulic jacks were used for the first time.

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