October | 2012 | English Russia

Categories Culture, Funny, Photos, Russian Art, Society

The winter is coming. And many people have to procure firewood. But citizens of a Russian city Rybinsk decided to do it in a creative way and even break a world record. In

Demino vallage they built the largest stack of wood in the world. It is twenty two meters (72.12 ft) high which is two meters (6.56 ft) higher than the previous record.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Russian People, Society, Video

This is how a wedding was celebrated in one Russian village. Apart from all

traditional entertainments they invented a new way to make guests remember this day.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Society

You are about to visit a fair in Almaty, Kazakhstan. We are not sure if you get hungry after seeing this, but for people fairs held

from time to time is a nice opportunity to buy food cheaper than usual. That day a lot of meat was offered for sale.

Categories Photos, Russian People, Society

A bench is like a model of the world. Everything goes around a bench. Couples who can't find another place for passion, hoboes who use a bench as home, a table, a toilet and a bed, students who always break benches or prepare for exams sitting on them, old people who live their last

days on a bench... Eugene Kotenko chose one ordinary bench and was describing its life for four years. It had been gray but then was painted blue, trash bins appeared and disappeared and more new people kept coming to spend some part of their life on the bench.

Categories Culture, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People

A school teacher Sergey Tarasov from Tigritskoye village of the Krasnoyarsk region is a true talent. He managed to make huge models of St.

Basil Cathedral and St. Saviour Monastery from paper. Sergey has already received some awards but it's probably not the end.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Russian People, Society, Video

The guys were shooting some movie which they called a "blockbaster". But suddenly something went wrong.

The main stuntman had no fear at all being sure that he would successfully land from the tree...

Categories Automotive, History, Photos, russian army, Society, Technology, Video

"Stalinets" tractors were produced in 1937-1941 in Chelyabinsk for industrial and construction works. But they were also often used by the Red Army as a prime mover. This "Stalinets" tractor sank in winter 1942 in Usoditsa lake of the Zapadnodvinsky district of the Tver region, Russia. It was repeatedly searched and when was finally found there were

some attempts to pull it out. But it was not easy. The tractor was under the marsh bog. However the last attempt made by the volunteers together with the Russian Ministry of Defence and the Moscow search and restoration center "Rearguard", divers from Pskov and other specialists finally managed to pull the tractor out.

Categories Economics, Photos, Russian Nature

Three days by car to Oslo, three hours by plane to Svalbard, Norway, five hours by an Arctic ship with a

romantic name "Polar Girl" and you find yourself in the northernmost abandoned city: you are in Pyramiden.

Categories Photos, Russian Nature, Society

Kadykovsky quarry became famous for its flux limestone of a very high quality. But when the place started to be flooded it got abandoned and soon was forgotten. A new project called "Balaklava Green" worth 2 billion dollars is going to bring second life to the quarry. They want to create a resort area here, build hotels,

SPA-centers etc. But for now it's just a shelter for seagulls and ravens that like to enjoy this lake with blue water. The territory of the quarry is closed, by the way. It's forbidden to approach the lake due to the possible danger of rockslides. But the author of these photos took the risk anyway...

Categories Photos, Russian Art, Science

The author of these works is Alexey Parshukov but nothing else is known about him. Some say that this is real electric current on his photos. Other say it's

not possible. People keep arguing trying to prove it's them who learnt physics better at school. But what do you think? Can it be real?

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