Rich Boys Fun

When rich boys of Moscow don’t know what to do some snowy dull winter day they go to the countryside on helicopters and have lotta fun having helicopter race or helicopter cricket or even shooting down some targets from air. Visitors without helicopters are also accepted and one hour of such games cost around $700 and demand is big.

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The Pocket Helicopter

In 1971 Communist government of Soviet Russia has order a development of the smallest passenger helicopter in the world that could carry one person and can be folded in the tube that can be carried also by one person. They had plans to use it on the benefit of Soviet Army and Russian intelligent service.

Here we can see what they got as a result of this order. It was a Ka-56 “Wasp” helicopter, fully functional and could be used and between uses carried by one man.

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Monuments of Russian Aviation

In our recent publications we told about graveyards of abandoned Soviet military aircraft.

But it is necessary to notice, that not all of the old vehicles have shared such fate. Some of them are still used as monuments of Russian aircraft, and one can discover them in different parts of Russia.

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Abandoned Russian Military Aircrafts

Some other Abandoned Military Planes

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Another Abandoned Military Aircraft

Once these vehicles were the part of the iron curtain, and now they are nothing but rusty remains of the cold war.

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Russian Pilot in Afghanistan

In late 70s Russian army entered Afghanistan, thousands soldiers, hundreds tanks and helicopters, etc.

These are photos from Afghanistan of one of the Russian helicopter pilots.

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Bangladesh Air Forces go St. Petersburg

That’s what true globalization is about: remains of Bangladesh Air Forces helicopters are towed around Russian city St. Petersburg and nobody seem to care.
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Strange Park

This is a strange place near Moscow city, park that imitates different crashes, like a helicopter hitting the power lines or a crashed plane site near the train crash site. Sometimes guys from Russian rescue team train there.
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Russian Helicopter Hits Water

A video of Russian helicopter crashing in the water, I hope they survived.

Helicopter Crash in Chernobyl

This is the video of a helicopter with crew of military pilots spreading anti-radiation solution across the blown-up reactor of Chernobyl nuclear plant.

This crew before was participating in Afghanistan war, so it was a team of military profesionals. Just before this final flight they asked a guy with a camera, a journalist from the local newspaper to make them a group photo, this photo you can see in the beginning of the video.

The story of this crash was censored and were not showed in Russian media till early 90s.

Afghani War Carpets

There is a war in Afghanistan for more than 20 years already.

It has been started in late 70s when first Soviet troops entered Afghanistan to support the current regime.

Then after the collapse of USSR the war with external enemy has stopped for a while, but inside there were still conflicting groups fighting with each other for the power. Little by little Taliban got the dominating position in the country and just a few years later NATO troops entered the country.

So all the time there was a war, and most of the time all the parties used Soviet, then Russian weapons. It’s scary to see how the war thematics have moved to all spheres of life in Afghanistan even to carpet weaving skills. Previously this Middle-East country, lying on the border with Russia was famous for its hand-made carpets with beautiful Eastern ornaments. These days weavers make carpets with war.

And main war items depicted on the carpets are from Russian origin.

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