Check out some photographs taken by Bill Eppridge
picturing Soviet young people and their lifestyle.
Categories Business, Photos, Technology
The majority of Russian people don't trouble themselves with bringing their plastic bottles to recycling centers, while officials consider plastic bottle recycling as a matter of some
remote future. Meanwhile, in 2007, the first Russian company using a unique bottle-to-bottle technology opened in the city of Solnechnogorsk in the Moscow Region.
Categories Automotive, Funny, Photos
There is a bunch of unattended cars in Norilsk which look like
snowdrops in spring when snow starts to melt. Check it out!
Categories Funny, Photos, Russian People, Society
You've seen plenty of chic girls photographed in night clubs of the country but
it never came to their male companions. Let us improve the situation.
Categories Photos, Science, Technology
Alpha is a scientific production complex producing track-etched membranes and devices for membranous plasmapheresis. The main consumers of the company are Ministry of Health and
Social Development of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Ministry for Civil Defense of the Russian Federation and other organizations.
Categories Photos, Russian People, Society
Twenty-year old Kseniya Bubenko of Yekaterinburg named her diet "Pobeda" which stands for "victory". The girl appeared on a popular
talk-show which won her popularity so she is kind of a celebrity now. Still, wouldn't it stick in your throat to call this victory?
Categories Culture, Economics, Funny, Photos, russian army, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society, Video
New vodka is sold in Russian shops today. It is called Khokhlushka (a Ukrainian woman) and
is closed with a bottle cork that is made in the form of the head of Julia Timoshenko.
Categories History, Photos, Technology
The idea of hydroelectric station on the Volga near Samara Bend was proposed by Gleb Krzhizhanovsky in 1910. Ten years later K. V. Bogoyavlensky proposed a hydroelectruc station near Perevoloki, utilizing naturally existing water level difference. The disrupted economic system of the time did not allow this project to be realized. In the early 1930s the Volga near Samara Bend and Yaroslavl was surveyed, and some dam projects were proposed. In 1937 the project of a dam near the villages of Perevoloki and Krasnaya Glinka was approved. Forced
labour from Kuybyshev Camp was used (up to 30,000 people). In the autumn of 1940, oil fields were found near construction site, causing a suspension of construction. The Hydroproject Institute made a survey in 1949, after which a decision was made to build the hydroelectric station near Zhigulyovsk. August 21, 1950, the project to create a station with installed power of 2.1 gigawatts was approved and construction was started. In the photograph: before the construction, the Volga River, 1950.
