The following photos of Moscow of 1959 were made by
Carl Mydans who posted them in Life magazine.
Often, people open martial art schools which in fact have nothing to do with sports. Usually, these are weirdos who want to open
something extraordinary or just make some money. Photographs below perplex or make professional sportsmen grin.
Categories Culture, Photos, Russian People
Malanka is a Ukrainian and Belarusian folk holiday celebrated on January 13, which is New Year's Eve in accordance with the Julian calendar. On this day, people traditionally
go from house to house playing pranks or acting out a small play, dressed as bears and Gipsies, with a bachelor dressed in women's clothing leading the troop.
Categories Culture, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People
Check out photographs of beautiful young mommies of Saratov
taken for the photo project called 'Russian Beauties':
Categories History, Other, Photos, russian army, Russian People, Science, Technology
A team of Russian pilots Russkie Vityazi or the Russian Knights participated in Bahrain International Airshow 2012
that took place on January 19-21 where they performed 'the bell', 'the rhomb' and other acrobatic maneuvers.
In the Library of Congress of the USA, there are photographs of Kiev taken about 100 years ago. Thanks to these
photographs, we have an opportunity to compare the city of Kiev of today to Kiev as it was a century ago.
Categories Photos, Technology
We have posted plenty of articles about the Moscow Metro so, for a
change, these are photographs of Metro tunnels of Saint Petersburg.
Categories Photos, Science, Technology
The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) is one of the major centers of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. It is located in the Siberian town Akademgorodok and was founded by Gersh Budker in 1959. Gersh Budker, also named Andrey Mikhailovich Budker, was a Soviet nuclear physicist. He was appointed Corresponding Member of the Siberian branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences on March 28, 1958, and was made an Academician of the division of nuclear physics on June 26, 1964. He is best known for his invention in 1968 of electron cooling, a method of reducing the emittance of particle beams by thermalisation with a co-propagating electron beam. His portrait decorates the famous Round Table room in the institute.
Following his death, the institute was renamed the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in his honour. Budker died in Akademgorodok from a heart attack at 59. The BINP is not actually an institute because has its own production and unique for Russian technologies. Despite its name, the center was not involved either with military atomic science or nuclear reactors - instead, its concentration was on high-energy physics (particularly plasma physics) and particle physics. In 1961 the institute began building the first particle accelerator in the world which collided two beams of particles. The BINP now employs over 3000 people, and hosts several research groups and facilities.
Categories History, Photos, Russian Nature, Science
It is well-known that Transbaikal or Zabaykalsky Krai is a region with snow-capped mountains and huge ice fields to the east
of Lake Baikal in Russia. But not many people are aware of the fact that a true desert can be found in the place.
Categories Photos, Russian People, Society
Leaving school, young people have to decide what they want to be in future. Considering opinion of their relatives and friends and their own preferences, they enter a college or university
where they will have to spend several years studying really hard. Yet, sometimes it so happens that many of them turn to another sphere of activity and fulfill themselves there.
