Worlds First Space Blogger
The online blog of astronaut Maksim Suraev is an event of international and spacewide standing. For the first time in history, Russian cosmonaut will be posting news and different interesting stories with lots of photos straight from the outer space.
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The Church Artist
Ivan Shishman is a church artist. Besides he is a father of seven and drinks sometimes.
This time he has got an order from Crimean church to make an artwork on the inside surface of its domes.
Social Network Art
For several years Russia, as well as other former soviet republics, together with the rest of the Internet world suffers from expansion of the social network services. For the moment the most popular of them here is Vkontakte (“in contact”). It is often considered (without any official confirmation) that its design, style and architecture were “stolen” from Facebook.
How the Salt Is Mined (And Not Only Kitchen Salt!)
When you are 1500 feet deep, there’s no wind, there’s no ambient sound, and there’s no sunlight as well (no wonder!). However, ride on the elevator doesn’t take too long – during these seconds you virtually see your whole life in front of your eyes. The open cage whooshes downwards swinging around like crazy and your guts really seem to come all the way up to your throat!
When you’re out of the cage, you arrive to a small platform, where multiple tunnels are intercrossed. These tunnels are made for so called “taxis”, small diesel-powered vehicles that can transport 2 to 12 men, depending on their designation. The mine uptake is only a drop in the sea of shafts, since there are lots of tunnels, which lead to actual mining sites. The most distant longwall (which is the name of the place of actual mining) is 17 miles away from the elevator! The “taxi” drives at speed of 20-25 mph, so it takes quite some time for some miners to get to work.
Space things
As Russia is being the first country to cross the threshold of space, it has lots of so-called “Space cities”. Usually, they are situated in some cities where the great Soviet and Russian cosmonauts were born and all the things from astronauts’ food to the models of most renowned space shuttles are displayed there.
Traditional Russian Transport
If they ask you which of the inventions of mankind is the most ancient, what will be your first thought? You’ll definitely think about a wheel. But sledge appeared much earlier! And indeed – just tie two front ends of poles to your dog or horse and let the rear ones drag – and you get a primitive sledge. There were so many of them created in different times – sledge without skids (Russian volokushy and Canadian toboggan) and with skids (Siberian and European), sledge with a closed body and even with a sail.
Exclaiming Against Sexual Harassment
As an old Russian saying goes, there are two problems in Russia, fools and roads. But lately one more has popped up and it is surely not a futile one. Since the fall of the Soviet Union there is a serious issue still gnawing all the countries of FSU. Corruption. And recently in the center of the capital of Ukraine, right at the entrance of Ministry of Cultural Affairs in Kiev, there was held a protest against sexual harassment in colleges of the country. And the girls’ approach was not as commonplace as it usually happens but a saucy and even kinda bizarre one.
Old good days
Everybody knows that times of Soviet Union were really tough ones because of many different things. Shortage of goods in stores, low wages, and all the products were the same. But there was something really dear and open-armed back then. Many people living now in entirely different country miss those times hardly.
Russian Blogger: The Biggest Breast
In the run-up to another blue workday we have something special to cheer you up. The pick-of-the-day today are boobs. And since it is a blue Monday ahead, enjoy yourself!
Dragunov Sniper Rifle
This grave-looking thing is a sniper rifle and is designed for extermination of any emerging, open, masking and any other targets in motion. It is a self-loading rifle and accurate fire is provided in single shots. The size of ammo is 7,62*54R (3 inches in length and 54mm in radius.)
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