May | 2010 | English Russia

Categories Russian People

Vladislav Ketov is a person who has really developed and implemented a project of the first trip made really around the world (land) along the coastline of the continents. This was a

cycling trip lasting 20 years! Unaccompanied he traveled to Europe, Africa, south and south-east of Asia and both Americas (except Arctic coast) and left behind 144 000 km.

Categories Funny

A fresh catch of Russian navy - a bot full of Somali pirates in the open seas. "Why do you lie to me, huh?" - American English is the language that use Russian

marines speaking to Somali pirate, thus making it in parts perfectly understandable. And now you can see it too, with this leaked video tape piece.

Categories Photos, russian army

A self-propelled artillery vehicle SU-100 overturned soon after the Victory Parade when was trying to

drive onto a truck tractor to be delivered to the military unit. Fuel spilled on the asphalt.

Categories Photos, russian army

Tu - 160 (Blackjack according to NATO codification) - a Russian supersonic strategical missile bomber variable-sweep

wing provided. The heaviest and the most powerful war-plane in the world. Pilots call it "White Swan".

Categories Automotive, Photos

Abandoned locomotives in Zlatoust city

(the Chelyabinsk Region of Russia).

Categories Society

An elderly woman is begging for change at the cafe "Krasny Mak" in the center of Taganrog. She refused to leave when was

asked to. They began to use more weighty arguments ... Nobody interceded ... including the photographer ...

Categories Russian Nature

This is the biggest swamp in the world. Its area is 20% wider than the area of Switzerland and makes up 53 thousand square kilometers. As scientists believe it sprang up 10 000 years ago and since then it is inexorably growing. It reminds

motion of deserts. On the territory of the swamp are more than 800 lakes, great number of rivers and streams begin here. And the amount of peat located in this swamp is just enormous - about 2% of the world resource!