September | 2012 | English Russia

Categories Photos, Russian Nature

This summer the White Sea was filled with jelly-fish. A jelly-fish has 24 eyes and its body consists of water for 95%. As soon as the creature comes to the coast in

a wave it dies getting dried in the sun without water. The photos below were taken during a small excursion into the world of the beautiful creatures.

Categories Business, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society, Technology

Not far from the busy and crowded Moscow there appear new settlements of people who leave big cities and refuse usual comforts, make their first steps to countryside life. Some of them live here all year around, others part of a year. They develop permanent agriculture, build adobe and straw houses, apply

alternative energy resources, ranch. This trend is new to Russia and is yet developing. Not everyone can buy a house or practice in construction of it for several months. Nevertheless the settlements become bigger, new people keep coming. We gonna show one of such settlements called "Glorious".

Categories Culture, History, Russian People, Society

The Russian Empire existed from 22 October 1721 until 1917 when a Soviet Republic was announced. It was the third largest Empire in history after the Britain and

Mongol ones with its Emperor having an absolute power. The city of Tashkent photos of which is presented below was one of its possessions in the East.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian Art, Society, Video

Armenia has a number of monasteies dated the IX-XI centuries. Many of them have been important spiritual centers of the country. In the epoch of feodalism development they even had high schools where students were taught historiography, literature, philosophy, theology, music, miniature painting and other sciences. That's why they had to

build special houses for books storage. Such houses were characterized by folk architecture made with stone. Tatev monastery was exactly one of them.It's the monastery of the Armenian Apostolic Church situated in the south-east of Armenia, near Tatev village and not so far from Yerevan - the capital of Armenia.

Categories Automotive, Economics, History, Photos, Science, Technology

Now we are going to a warehouse that is actually abandoned. Many people come nearby everyday without even knowing that the facade of a

4-storey house with conditioners hides airplanes covered with dust. But can the old parts of the planes be used in future projects?

Categories Funny, Russian Art

If you want to become famous and well-paid, do something absurd. No, really, it's what I thought when saw these "masterpieces" first. A Ukrainian

artist Vasiliy Tsagolov does not have his own website or promoters, but it doesn't prevent him from selling his pictures for 100.000 dollars.

Categories Automotive, Business, Economics, History, Photos, Russian People, Science, Technology

Everybody knows how to use a pencil. People treat it as something very usual and useful. But only few have ever thought of how complex

the manufacturing process of pencils can be. A Moscow factory has been dealing with the process of pencil production since 1926.

Categories Automotive, Economics, History, Photos, Science, Technology

The place you see in the picture used to be a metallurgical plant in the past. It is located in the city of Nizhny Tagil and currently represents

history frozen in the metal. The plant is located on a huge area and contains several workshops, blast furnaces, and a huge surrounding territory.

Categories Other, Photos, Technology

You probably know that subway in large cities can serve as a shelter in case of any emergency situations like a nuclear way or something. If something like this happens the subway becomes overcrowded. So if these tunnels become the only place for people to hide from aliens or bombing they should

have toilets there to avoid at least one problem that's very urgent sometimes. Yes, they really exist. Built back in the times of Stalin they are located underground and wait for an hour when they will be able to receive crowds of Moscow citizens, not occasional visitors.

Categories Photos, Technology

Dyagilevo is an air base in Ryazan, Russia. There is a museum of long-range aviation there, but we are not going to visit it

today again. We gonna spend some time at the airfield of Dyagilevo instead and look at various planes flying over there.

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