Russian Smallest Submarine
There are different things that are of personal use. There are personal computers, personal music players, personal phones.
Transportation means are also became much more personal in 20th century, personal cars, bikes, skiing etc.
This Russian man from St. Petersburg got his personal submarine. He built it himself and it is the smallest submarine in Russia, officially registered as a boat by Russian boat registry and has got it’s own personal name and number.
He can make an underwater trip from St. Petersburg to Helsinki, Finland and back without stops, and he can go as fast as four knots.
The interesting thing that he is based in St. Petersburg which is in Northern part of Russia so the water in the sea is cold all year round.
photos by drugoi
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HEY MORON!!!!! THE WATER IS NOT COLD ALL YEAR ROUND. I USED TO SWIM IN THE GULF OF FINLAND ALL THROUGH THE SUMMER WHEN I WAS A KID, AND THE WATER WAS NOT COLD. GET YOUR SHIT STRAIGHT.
youre gay.
Some guy devoted 20+ years of his life to build this amazing machine, and that’s the best comment you can come up with?
I don’t understand why even the smallest detail makes these people freak out over your posts.
This is yet another wonderfully strange entry. I love it! I think that guy’s pretty brave; I could never handle being in that small thing in open water.
I love how Russian sailors still wear the traditional striped shirts.
Dude, yeah, I used to swim the gulf of finland as well when I was little, that mofo was cold! PS. Just so we are clear, the Finland Gulf’s water is filthier than a one-legged french prostitute.
Wonderful collection of photos. This website is always one of the most interesting on the Internet.
It is giving me and my friends a lot of respect for the people of Russia.
How cool!
Wouw! Absolutely and totally cool!
“I don’t understand why even the smallest detail makes these people freak out over your posts.”
Josh: It’s really simple - most of the posts here state outrageous lies (not necessarily this one) and people who know the truth are offended by it.
P.S. Okay, I know everyone has their own opinion about the coldness of the water - some people can swim there, some can’t.
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Well, I think everything in this site is pretty cool. I have seen things I would have never seen. This guy is super smart and super brave to make this contraption and USE it. A true adventurer!
Also, if you can’t say something good, then don’t say anything.. Be nice!
Russia’s smallest submarine…
Here’s a homemade sub from Russia, check out all the pics! - “This Russian man from St. Petersburg got his personal submarine. He built it himself and it is the smallest submarine in Russia, officially registered as a boat……
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JOSH: DRE is explaining to you the answer to your question, but not from the substance of his remarks, which are gibberish. If you read between his lines, you see that crazed Russian nationalists are totally paranoid and utterly unable to accept any criticism. This is a natural Russian characteristic, but it was greatly manipulated and enhanced during Soviet times for the benefit of the state, increasing hostility to outsiders. It’s for this reason that Russia can’t reform, and continues spiraling down into oblivion (losing up to 1 million people from its population). As Mike points out, the waters in the Gulf of Finland are shockingly polluted, yet Russians do nothing about it, in part because they aren’t even aware of the fact due to the total obliteration of criticism and blind nationalism taking over just as in Soviet times.
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What a fantastic post! Thank you! The inventiveness of people is simply amazing. This makes me wish I lived near some water so I could build my own. It looks like he runs it off from an internal combustion motor. Diesel? The photos are pretty cool too. Nice work.
-John
hey russophobe. you sound exactly like the people you hate. You are blindly nationalistic, full of hate and clearly arent worth the ballsweat of a typical russian.
why? because russians are taught to respect others, because if you do not, you will get your ass beat. It is clear to me that you havent had your ass beaten adequately to give you a sense of respect and appreciation of consequences. You sit there comfortably on your ass and choose to look down on others every chance you get. their misfortune is your excuse for superiority.
Every nation has bad apples. Greedy, hateful people that have no empathy for others and engage in gross generalization. I just want to point out that you are an example of the kind of trash NO ONE would want in their country. I dont respect you or your views because frankly, they are immature.
I could blame you for the actions of your government, but that wouldnt be fair to you, would it now?
anyway, no sense arguing with an idiot, i just wanted to voice what many others think and have said already.
2 Dmitri
There is no necessary to explain to russophobe anything. russophobe is
stupid, stubborn and uneducated. Be high-level then He/She. russophobe
just write the same ideas, It’s boring to read it and discussing not interresting.
Mel Gibson was actually right about people like La Russophobe.
? dRE What did he sey? (Mel)
I want to add. I read La Russophobe’s blog. It’s stupid. He/She? La Russophobe wrote about our writers but didnt study them biography.
Just writting his/her guess.
Wow, that’s incredible!
And I agree with Dimitri and Andrey.
Andrey: Just a little provocation that’s all.
Also, do you honestly think that La Russophobe’s (a SHE, btw) blog is a personal one? You’re very much mistaken. She is spending all her time in internet, spamming on websites about how she hates Russia and how Russia is dying. Either she is a “desperate housewife” which I doubt, or, most probably, a hired spammer to join the anti-Russian campaign in all media (internet, in her case).
It could`nt be said better, Dimitri.
About guy on a submarine - his name is Mikhail Puchkov - he started building it back in 1985, and it took him 3 yars to make it run. So he moved from Ryazan where he lived, to Leningrad, where he tested his sub for a few times in a Finland`s Gulf. Then he decided to fill up the fuel tanks and travel local river system for a few days. He went trough river Neva into river Tosno, where his sub was caught in a metal net, used by some guys to pick up the wood logs flowing from a local lumbermill. He spent the whole day on a river bed, then he managed to get out of sub, and asked those guys to help him get his boat from the bottom of the river. First they thought he was crazy, but they helped. Someone thought it was suspitious, and called militia, and militia brought the KGB, and KGB brought specialists from town Vysozk, near Vyborg. They studied the sub for a few days, looking for spy equipment. They found nothing, and after some time officials gave the sub back to it`s constructor, and even agreed to officially register it as personal transport, but in return they asked Mikhail Puchkov to go into State Marine Technical University in St.Petersburg, so he could get himself a second high education, and could work on topic officially.
Documentarian Aleksandr Kiselev is now making a short movie about Mikhail Puchkov. He says, Mikhail is now planning to paint it yellow and sail to UK. (Probably because he is a Beatles fan).
Submarine:
Hull - 2300 kg.
Without fuel - 2100 kg.
Lenght - 5 m.
Height - 130 cm.
Engine - 8 h.p.
Speed up to 7 km/h.
Submerges to 10 m.
Crew - 2.
Otsukaresama.
2 dRE
))) You’re true ))
no sense arguing with an idiot, i just wanted to voice what many others think and have said already.
Comment by Dmitri — November 9, 2006 @ 8:10 pm
Yet you chose to dmitri? Very telling as to the nationalistic thing.eh?
All I can say is good on the fella for his sub. The reason it is so remarkable? When you consider how much squalor your country foisted upon your citizens, this is indeed quite the achievement. It is just so sad that something as minor as this and many other things are to be hailed as heroic endevors.
Populer Mechanics sold plans for this type of thing in the 1950’s. I don’t want to take anything away from this mans achievment, but that it inspires you to laud him? Perhaps you should consider why?
Freedom is everyones birthright, defending it is the crux of the thing.
Don’t know about anti-Russian stuff, or why it would even be foisted on this story.
This sub (and the account of the guy’s history building and testing it) is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in awhile.
Wow, I love this blog so far. However, the people who post here are… tools.
Pardon me. I am out.
Wow, that plastic bubble is so small. What if you needed to pick your nose or something? You couldn’t; it’s so small!
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Hey, losers…the anti-Russian thing is so dead. Get with the times already and bitch about the Arab Terrorists.
Someone forgot to close an HTML tag…
I know this guy. The sub .. well she leaks like a drunk in a shoe store. We had to pull his out after she burst a gasket twice.
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Does it have bathroom and shower? I bet not. And what do you do if you let a russian fart? And what about a buffet? Does it have that? No it does not! Life is so hard.
Anyone have contact info for the builder? I would like plans or have it built.
Wow what an incredible machine. The shots where you can just see the top of his head in the bubble above the water is freaky.
Wow! but i dont see why the smallest sub wasnt on the news? i mean how do i no its realy sept for the fact there is pics. o well dc.
I think your sub is AWESOME!! I wish you would visit Palm Beach Florida, and help me find some of this shipwreck gold that is sitting right outside my neighborhood.
You Russians can always stand proud, if you can dream it, some Russian can build it.
The world is more interesting because you are in it.
Best Regards,
Steve
Those russians…
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I would like to say \”Great Job\”. As a submarine designer I think this is very well done. Thank you from a person from the world as a whole, and the USA. After all this is the Human race, not anything else that matters as far as this neat submarine.
I would like to say Great Job. As a submarine designer I think this is very well done. Thank you from a person from the world as a whole, and the USA. After all this is the Human race, not anything else that matters as far as this neat submarine.
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Its a death trap.
Really Very Very Nice Job
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La Russophobe is excellent blog.
Andrey and Dmytry are pea brained patriots and latent gays.
La Russophobe is an excellent blog.
Andrey and Dmytry are pea brained patriots and latent gays.
remind me kriegsmarine and UK navy small boats from WWII era[aka "X-craft" in UK], design.
maybe later, he try more expensive italian-approved[late '70 years]design approach.
Be careful. it could be a cofin!
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It’s really small