October | 2010 | English Russia

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian Art, Science, Technology

Today we are going to visit the tempera painting restoration laboratory and the restoration - depositary center of the Hermitage, in which more

than 1.2 million displays are kept. Here is a quick excursion trough the storage and other restoration workrooms of the Hermitage.

Categories Funny, Russian People, Society

Works were carried out on October, 8th. The place was not fenced properly: the role of warning protection was played by the two-meter piece of a striped tape lying on the ground. The workers were nonprofessionals, judging by absence in their helmet equipment, "protectors"

on ropes and other trifles providing safety both of them and civilian. It is hard to imagine what will be in winter when such steeplejacks will work on clearing roofs from snow. How many fatal cases will be both among workers, and among pedestrians?

Categories Automotive, Economics, Photos, Technology

Let's have a look on how gypsum is being mined. If you think that extraction of gypsum is none of your business, you're mistaken. Gypsum is practically everywhere - in building materials, hospitals, jewellery,works of art

and even, as the story goes, in McDonalds' rolls. Actually we cannot assert about the rolls, but the fact is that gypsum is a great hypoallergenic matter. Let's see how this Russian company produces them.

Categories Economics, Photos, Russian People

Artemy Lebedev, a famous Russian web-designer opened his own restaurant. At the moment it is one of the best restaurants of Moscow - here everything is very delicious and of high quality and the prices are quite low for Moscow at the same time. The design of the restaurant is neutral, so to say "an

interior without an interior". Cosy atmosphere and free internet. The place is popular among many people and also has its frequenters. The staff remembers them by names and knows their habits and special preferences. Frequenters also can pay for visiting Artemy's restaurant once a month.

Categories Automotive, Photos, Russian People, Society

To say that St. Petersburg is much different from other cities of Russia, is to say nothing. Here all things are not the same as in other parts of our country - people, buildings, streets, traditions and moving around the city also does not make an

exclusion. There are of lots vehicles in "the Northern Capital of Russia". Besides cars you can see here different bikes, motorbikes, roller skates as well as horses, carriages, ships and boats, limousines and water scooters.

Categories History, Other, Photos, Russian Nature, Technology

Staraya Linza is the first talc open cast of Shabrovsk Talc Deposit in the Sverdlovskaya region. The Shabrovsk talc-magnesite deposit is considered to be one of the biggest, not only across the whole Ural, but also in Russia.

The deposit and the factory are 27 km to the south of Ekatirenburg. Domestic talc production was founded here as far back as in the 19th century and mechanized machinery was first introduced in 1931.

Categories Exclusive, Photos

An abandoned foundry in the southeast of the capital city. It is situated in the territory of an operating factory, which’s area partly stands empty or is leased as warehouses and offices. Due to the

broken heat pipe, which was steaming generously the whole shop was weltered in haze. It can be a proper qualified place for different photo and video sessions but getting into it is illegal.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People

Once you see this museum you will remember it for a long time. Dondi-Yurt Museum is in a Chechen town Urus-Martan and its

founder - Adam Satuev nicknamed Dondo. This person and his awesome museum will be the subject of this article.

Categories Funny, Video

Line M23 Taganrog - Rostov-on-Don is a dangerous place! The officers of

this traffic control post won't feel comfortable at work anymore.

Categories Photos, russian army, Russian Nature, Technology

Some parts of the Astrakhan region look like a moldy honey cake with rare green blotches of trees, which is restrung by celebratory blue ribbons of shallow streams. There is very little growth, the ground is dry and the trees are scraggy. The situation changes drastically as you approach the Caspian Sea, where the Volga river is divided into numerous arms,

and it starts looking like a cable barbarian attacked and unraveled with the plug torn off: everything is green, the trees get higher, though there are fewer of them, little plots of land, that is there, is covered with green reed twice the human height. Half of the Russian Red Book (endangered species list) inhabits this area.

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