November | 2011 | English Russia

Categories Culture, History, Photos

In the 18th century, Ufa became one of the centers of the Muslim culture in Russia. In 1998, they completed one of the most beautiful mosques called Lyalya

Tyulpan. It looks rather unusual from the outside. It’s modern on the one hand, but at the same time you’ll always know that it is a mosque.

Categories Photos, Technology

Moscow metro passengers were upset when they tried to use metro on the 19-20th of November. Despite the announcements people forgot about construction work at this line. And they will be probaly surprised again on the 26-27 th of November. Moscow metro line between Belorusskaya

and Novokuznetskaya stations undergoes changes. Serious construction works are taking place there and in November, on 19-20 and 26-27 the traffic will be stopped. Stations Mayakovskaya, Tverskaya and Teatralnaya will be temporary closed for passengers.

Categories History, Photos, Russian army

The Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January

1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union. Check out the collection.

Categories Photos, Technology

This time we're going to tell you about the workhorse of the Russian aviation, the Antonov An-26B. Here you'll

find detailed photos of the aircraft, its characteristics, and more! In the picture: the An-26B.

Categories History, Photos

In the University of California, Santa Cruz, there is a large collection of photos (about 10 thousand!) of the Soviet Union, taken by photographer Branson DeCou who travelled around the country a lot. At that time they were able to take color photos but for some

reason the photographer preferred to take black-and-white ones and then colour them by himself. Taking into account the fact that it took him several hours to color just one slide, how much time then did it take him to color the whole collection?

Categories History, Photos, Russian army

These are some rear color photos

of World War II. Take a look!

Categories Automotive, Photos, Technology

Back in 1992, they decided to build a tunnel over the Ufa River. In 2008, the inspection resolved to introduce changes into the construction documents

and then, to continue the construction. At present, it is completely frozen; estimated date of completion of the construction is 2020.

Categories Business, History, Other, Photos, Society

The ship is one of two vessels that moor in the harbor of Kiev. They are the Dnieper Plaza and the ship in

the picture named St. Andrew. All the other vessels were removed following the order of President.

Categories History, Other, Photos, Russian army, Russian People, Science, Technology

Today we'll see under what conditions soldiers of

internal military forces see their duty.

Categories Funny, Photos

Legislative elections will be held in Russia on December 4th, 2011. These are photos of some of the candidates found in social

networks, seeing which you involuntarily ask yourself a question, 'What do these people have o do with politics? '

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