Monsters of the Epoch – Forced Invention
For intra-factory needs it’s not always convenient and profitable to use ordinary equipment (tractors, pushers, loaders etc.) due to many vital reasons – either transportation of heavy details and aggregates from shop to shop or banal tightness of money for specialized machinery), besides, as a rule, there are a lot of unutilized materials such as spare parts or simply written-off equipment that hasn’t been cut to metal junk yet. Necessity is the mother of invention and it’s not a secret – Russians are fertile with brilliant ideas – that’s how so-called “stumps”, “crocodiles”, “bigheads” etc. are born into this world with the only purpose – to make human life more convenient and people’s labour easier.
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Museum of Long-Range Aviation
Dyagilevo is an air base in Ryazanskaya region, located 11 km to the west from Ryazan. There is the Distant Aviation Museum on the base where we will travel today.
Let’s start our excursion from TU-95, the soviet strategic missile bomber, one of the fastest planes that became a symbol of the Cold War. Russian Bear was made to attack anytime of a day, at any weather.
UFO (Unknown Floating Object) In Moscow?
Well, guys. A strange thing happened recently in Moscow. All the onlookers of this were literally shocked. Have you ever seen a car, floating along the river but not sinking for good two hours? I bet that you haven’t.
So, I will tell you how such an odd story came about. When some pedestrians were walking along the quay they saw some strange thing in the Moscow River, neither a car nor a boat. One would think: what the hell? And so did all the passers-by. Some of them even began to hesitate which number they should phone first, rescue service to deal with the car or an ambulance to rescue them from the mirage.
Kiev Cars
We’ve seen a lot of nice cars from Russia here already. It’s no secret there a lot of them: a British journalist once said that only in Moscow could he see several Lamborghinis or Ferraris stopped at one traffic light.
So we wondered if this was a cultural thing. First we looked to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, another piece of the USSR that gained its independence not even twenty years ago. While the Ukraine has been less fortunate in terms of natural resources, the stamp of Soviet heritage is strong and many Ukrainians even prefer Russian as their primary language. So we deduced this could mean only one thing—there should be tons of luxury cars there too.
Thus, we set on a brief examination of the streets of Kiev and it looks like we were right: yet another country with an average salary under 25 grand but with cars costing over $200,000.
Unwanted Atomiс Submarines
The village of Porchinikha was made by soldiers as a base for atomic submarines. It’s the most northern point of the Kola Peninsula on the Barents Sea shore with the road. There are mistakes in maps, soviet cartographers put this road on the map instead of a corvine path. Drive on the off-road? I wouldn’t be that sure.
I found this place long time ago, when discovered a world of geocashing in 2004. One of the virtual caches buried here as well. It’s amazing but since 2003 (the date of the cache burying) no one took it, everyone puzzled: “Is it a foot or a water path?” Everyone saw satellite photos and couldn’t get how it is possible at all to get here without taking off the ground.
Russian Roads
As Russians there are only two problems in Russia: roads and fools. But time is changing, so are the problems to deal with. As well as the way to do it. Environmental, for example. Yes, Moscow streets are dirty. Right, Moscow cars are not squeaky clean.
The Haunted Cars
We had this place before, the place where tens of classic cars rust under the open skies in the open field among the tall grass and it’s called museum.
Now two Russian bloggers has visited this place at night and it looks even more haunted when made this way. Some say it reminds the movie theater of 1960s but if it was from the zombie movie.
Driver vs. crash witnesses
Last week in Tallin, Estonia a driver crashed into street lightning pole. Although none was hurt and no other persons were responsible for accident, car driver decided to fight with people who saw the scene. As found out later, he is thaiboxer that was in a hurry to competition in Estonia’s Kalev Hall
After accident police found big amount of material, that could be drugs.
Driver Kristians (1986) has had problems with law before - he hasn’t paid more than 1500 EUR in fines for speeding and other law breaches.
Various Finds
Today we are having some various finds from Russian blogs recently. Like this brown fish none could
identify for sure what it was.
Two Cars, Two Obstacles
Two almost the same looking obstacles often can cause different consequences if met by different people. Same with cars.
This Rover was less fortunate meeting the road fencing.
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