Last time there was a post about walking over the Kremlin walls. Today we'll continue the journey revealing
unknown facts. First of all - not many people know that there are trees on the Spasskaya Tower.
Categories History, Photos, Technology
In 1920 they approved a plan of electrification of the RSFSR, thus initiating industrialization of the USSR. They began to introduce electricity into agriculture. Small hydropower plants called 'farm hydropower plants', supplied farms, stockyards and farmers' houses with electricity. However, later adoption of big hydropower plants made 'farm plants' needless, so the biggest part of them disappeared without a trace. Those which have
remained, may be found along the rivers of the USSR, including Moscow area, and this is where we are now. They built different types of 'farm hydropower plants' in the USSR. There were barrage power plans in the western part of the country; in the Caucasus, the Crimea and the Urals, they had derivation power plants. The dams differed as well. There were concrete, metal (movable) and wooden (movable) dams.
Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian People
This is an English language textbook for third graders. It was released in 1953,
so it contains a lot of characteristic features of that time. Take a look!
Categories History, Photos, Russian Art, Society
In 2010 the museum of Nakhodka presented its third project called
Museum On Rollers that won another grant of a Russian charitable fund.
Categories Automotive, History, Other, Photos, Russian People
An outdoor museum of cars widely used in the Soviet times is located in the Tula region. The
'Auto-USSR' museum draws its support from efforts of the local management and public subscriptions.
No, this is not another abandoned facility, as you may think. This is a laboratory of the Clinical Hospital in the city of Penza. What a sorry
sight, isn't it? Torn linoleum and shabby walls in this very old building... It's hard to believe that people still work here.
Categories Photos, Technology
Pulling up the 'Stepan' barge to the center of the bay - some
pictures from the bridge construction site in Primorye.
Janali, Janik, Kara-batyr... an ordinary 5-year old boy from Almaty. Everyone likes him. One girl even wants "to eat him
like chocolate". Butthe truth is he's just a boy like everyone else. Go through another day of Janik's life.
Inhabitants of small places have joys and sorrows of their own.
They face difficulties just like people from the big cities.
Categories Other, Photos, Russian Art, Science, Society, Technology
Some pictures taken during the Festival called
The Circle Of Light were presented in the
