July | 2010 | English Russia

Categories Other, Photos, Russian Nature

The other day there was a terrible wild fire in Voronezh. It started in a micro-district Maslovka and its area reached 3

thousand hectares. 5 people died, 94 injured, 21 hospitalized. 271 houses burnt, 556 people were made homeless.

Categories Funny, Russian Art

Igor Oleinikov is a talented artist who used to make such cool illustrations for a children's magazine "Tramvai".

Don't you agree that when you see a similar cool illustration you always want to read the story it depicts?

Shelter For Heroes - Olympic Games 1980 1

Categories Culture, Other, Photos, Society, Sports

In 1980 Canadian spouses David and Cheryl Hendersons came on a visit to Moscow to see XXII Summer Olympic Games where they took a lot of interesting photos. They were the parents of a Canadian sportswoman

Sandra Henderson who set the Olympic flame in 1976 in Montreal. Here are the pics not only of the Opening Ceremony but beautiful views of Moscow that changed so much on those July days.

Categories russian army

Moscow SWAT was giving demos the other day in

Strogino. It was quite a spectacular performance!

Categories Funny, Society

Moving in the direction from Orenburg to Orsk, soon after "Orsk" sign the road starts descending. Further is a sign "overtaking prohibited". Drivers usually didn't notice it and did overpassed in this place, thus, many of them had their driving licence

suspended. About a month ago there was made a continuous line in that place and income of the local road police drastically decreased. Poor but clever guys from the road police painted over the continuous line turning it into dash.

Inside the State District Power Plant in Sredneuralsk 1

Categories Technology

The State District Power Plant in Sredneuralsk has been working since 1936, much equipment is of

the same period. It is "too much" even for Russia where such old equipment is now rare too.

Categories Russian Art, Russian People

Maxim Sharov is a Russian craftsman who makes bags of

leather. Here we show how he usually does it.

Categories Automotive, Video

This accident happened in

Yekaterinburg yesterday.

Categories Funny, Russian People, Technology

Largest private collection of CPUs has been discovered upon one Russian guy has posted a message on a forum. His message says "here is my humble collection for you" and then listed something more than one thousand of different types of computer processors

he collected. There are ones from the old times and as well as modern ones, the lost and seemed never coming back relics of Soviet Russian genuine processors that preceded Intel world dominance and many other interesting findings he had.

Categories Culture, Funny, Russian Art

Unfortunately such cool and wise

postcards are not made in Russia anymore.

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