Views of Leningrad in the 1980s on the Soviet photo greeting cards. Luckily, all of them have
captions in English on their backward side. Also can be clicked to see it full size.
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The advantage of tourists over local residents is that one sees everything in a new way, watching open-mouthed, another one indifferently passes by, they had seen
it a hundred times. Here is a village in Karelia, the Russian Finnish region, typical for the whole phenomena of the country, but still different.
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*The second Life of helicopters: Blog Tour at Omsk Plant of Civil Aviation* 1. On February 5, 1945, based on production of aircraft repair base no. 406 capacity in Aktyubinsk town (Kazakhstan) there was
created "Omsk aircraft repair workshops no. 41 West Siberian management of civil aviation". From 1945 to 1956 years in the workshops there was overhauled 1235 aircrafts Po-2 and 2008 engines M-11.
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This is a unique source of health — Lake Tambukan. During the WWII, wounded soldiers liberated Pyatigorsk from the Nazis, applied on a bandage a layer of mud from this lake. Today, manufacturers of cosmetics are looking at the lake at their point of view: in Tambukan mud, they say, one can find youth and forget about the shortcomings of the skin. Healing — if not invaluable — mud they compare to the famous Dead Sea mud.
When a couple of years ago, the lake overflowed its banks and washed away the track "Caucasus" - the main road on the Russian south, no alarm sounded about a strip of asphalt, even federal one. Environmentalists were worried about the unique properties of the pond and mud at the bottom. As a result, the unusual lake saved itself: the best defense against poison of asphalt became supersalt water.
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Yesterday, an unusual event took place at a gas station in Samara for everyone who wanted to fill a full tank of the car. The terms were as simple as possible and exactly the same for everyone! Both girls and guys could refuel, the conditions were equal for all! * Enter the forecourt of the
filling station in a bikini and in shoes with heels * Without the aid of helpers, boyfriends/husbands/wives, etc. (i.e. independently), insert the refueling nozzle into the tank; * Go to the cashier and state the bowser number, the brand of fuel and add a smile - TO FULL !!!
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As announced on July 23, 2016 by the Kaliningrad branch of the "Vesti-24" TV channel, a team of Marines from China arrived at the main base of the Baltic fleet of the Navy of Russia, Baltiysk (the
Kaliningrad region) to participate in the international competitions in field training "Marines 2016." The Chinese team brought with them four modern Chinese marine corps combat vehicles ZBD05.
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Guinness World Records record-holder, Kirill Shimko, has pulled the biggest helicopter in the world that weighs 35 tons
Famous Belarusian strongman Kirill Shimko has pulled a helicopter from the movie Die Hard for about 20 meters at Lipki airport, which is the largest helicopter in the world, whose weight is 35 tons. The action is timed to the birthday of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry and at the same
time draws attention to the avia festival #pronebo which will be held in Minsk on Borovaya on 30 and 31 July. This is not Kirill’s first record. Over the years, he pulled BelAZ trucks, trains and cranes. And he is just a nice person, whom I know for a long time.
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A selection of the best videos we could find
from the past 24 hours, narrated. Take a look!
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Now I would like to write about one of the greatest facilities of the ZIL plant. It is an aeroclimatic camera. An aeroclimatic complex is a unique facility that simulates various weather conditions for vehicle testing.
Environmental testing and research were conducted in a wide range of ambient temperatures from -60°C to +65°C with regulation of the object air-flow speed of 0:150% km/h, at a relative humidity of 0:100%.
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