Old Moscow Disasters
These are some photos of fire, flood and tornado in Moscow 100 years ago..
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The On-Ground Ferry
On these photos you can see something that is called “An On-Ground Ferry” in some parts of Russia. Some roads are to muddy to pass for the regular cars. They have only one way - to use an on-ground ferry - a four wheel drive truck on which they are being put and sit all the way through the muddy passage.
The Snow Horse
Usually, there are snowmen made in the winter by kids in different snowy playgrounds, but not this time. Meet the snowhorse with the police “keep-out” tape in place of the bridle.
Vodka Now and Then
It seems that a bottle of wine or a bottle of vodka was a very common thing even hundred years ago in the regular Russian party…
Road Went Wrong
Sometimes in the winter roads can make surprises.. Look more to see which surprise has made for the truck driver this particular road…
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Russian Burn Out Art
Look at this device on the picture above. I wonder if there is a suitable name for it in English in Russia they called it “a burner out machine”. It was used to make drawings on the plywood, by plugging it into electricity outlet and making the needle at the end of this handle red-hot. In every Soviet and later in Russian school all the junior students got the skills of using this thing at their Applied Arts lessons.
But it seems that this artist got too much of these Applied Arts in the Soviet Union and for sure he had all A’s for this subject. Just look below what pictures he has drawn with the help of this freaky Soviet machine and a few pieces of plywood.
Moscow Postcards from 1890
We had Moscow photos of 1890 some time ago already, but these are new shots but of the same year, actually they are postcards printed in Riga (Latvia now) at that time.
Soviet Dairy Products
Such books were probably unique only to Soviet Russia. This is not some kind of a book of commercials for dairy products - there are no any prices as you can see, it’s just a book that explained the dairy products variety to the Soviet citizens and how many stuff is being done from the milk and how delicious it is and is a must to try.
Mc Duck
We’ve seen already fake gas stations, now they have fake McDonalds, like this one, called “McDuck”, in Russian city Petrozavodsk. They used the exact “M” trademark logo but also added some duck face for it..
Virtual Reality Subway Wanderer
Recently many people in Virtual Reality helmets wander in Moscow Subway. Sometimes it seems their helmets fail to guide them and they have to lift them up in order to see the way more clearly.
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