December | 2012 | English Russia

Categories History, Photos, russian army, Science, Technology

T-35 is a heavy tank of the 1930s made in the USSR. It is the only five-turret tank of mass production. In the period since 1933 to 1939 61 units were produced. It had not participated in battles till

1941 however was used for military parades being the symbol of the Soviet power. T-35 took part in early battles of WWII however it was lost too soon because of multiple occuring failures.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian People, Science, Society

Petergof also known as Petrodvorets in the period since 1944 to 1997, is a municipal town of St. Petersburg, located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. The town hosts one of two campuses of Saint Petersburg State University and the Petrodvorets Watch Factory, one of

the leading Russian watch manufactures. A series of palaces and gardens, laid out on the orders of Peter the Great, and sometimes called the "Russian Versailles", is also situated there. Here you can see the color pictures of the place from far 1931.

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian People, Society

Do you also have photos like these? And if you do, do you show them to anyone? Ok, you may keep it

secret. These people from Russian social nets do not ask you to show anything in exchange.

Categories Photos, Russian Nature

We about to visit the southern Urals where the national park Taganai is situated. In this particular case the word "southern" does

not promise any hope, in January the temperature is lower than -30C (-22F) there and strong winds do not add any comfort.

Categories Business, Economics, History, Law, Photos, Russian People, Society

On the 26th of May, 1988 there was adopted the law that permitted cooperatives to deal with any legal activities, including trade. It was expected that

cooperatives would eliminate trade deficit and lead to improved quality of service but what they got was speculation and financial transactions to cash money.

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Nature

How does a house look inside when the temperature outside is -59C (-74.2F)? Come to the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, to see it with

your own eyes. Just imagine for a second how cold it is! Such temperature has been in the city for several days already!

Categories Automotive, Funny, Video

When you cannot control your own car on the slippery winter road you can remember all your life in this single moment,

but hardly you have enough time to pray. It seems nothing can help you but miracles do happen sometimes...

Categories Economics, History, Photos, Technology

This plant "Kormofos" occupies the huge territory of sixty hectares. It's located not far from the city of Voskresensk, Russia. Today it does not function anymore. But it's hard to call

the place abandoned, because it almost has not been touched by looters and is still patrolled by the security. One day is not enough to see even half of all the territory...

Categories Exclusive, History, Photos, Technology

The author of these pictures does not give any information where he took them and how he managed to do this. But is it really important? Just try to imagine what it was like to

work at such place, far from reality and sunlight, to listen to the neverending sounds of this equipment, see these dull and gloomy corridors every single day...

Categories History, Law, Photos, Society

These are the pictures of what has remained from the Soviet Gulag. General Directorate of the camps and detention facilities (Gulag) was a division of the NKVD, Soviet Police and the USSR

Ministry of Justice. It used to be the place for mass forced imprisonment and detention in 1934-1960. Now you can see how it looks today and how it looked when it was working.

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