Russia, 1896, in Color
Russia. 100 Years Ago. Again. We had it from Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky
whose photos are being stored in the Library of Congress in USA, but now it’s totally different
case. Photos were made by Czech photographer while on his travel thru Russia back in the
year 1896. Most of them were lost later due to two wars in Europe and other tragical things but
some still managed to survive till our year 2009 and now we can see them here.
It’s a big pity that there are only such a few of them left.
Soviet Firemen, 1979
Photos from the Soviet “Golden Age” - late seventies, the times which some elder people remember with warm feelings, for the stability and definiteness they say modern life lacking of.
Those are Soviet firemen competing in some kind of annual contest.
That Flat is OK
One guy with his young family had to move to his wife’s mother’s house. What he found there shocked him deeply. He tried to tell the story to his friends and coleagues but they simply didn’t believe him until he made those photos.
This probably what happens when everyone in the family exhausts of motivation of keeping the house tidy.
The photo above is how the room of his father-in-law looked like when they moved in.
The Hostages
A group of journalists were kept as hostages by a bunch of Southern looking guys dressed in military uniform. Well, almost. It is a new experience one can get in Chelyabinsk city, Russia in the recently opened special courses of “How to behave during if you was taken as a hostage”.
First a bus full of people is being stopped in the middle of nowhere by a bunch of Arabic people yelling “Allakh Akbar” each and every five seconds. Those are not real terrorists, but Russian SWAT soldiers carefully picked by appearance - with Southern roots so that they could resemble ethnical Chechen or Arabic threat.
The Building Shower
Sometimes the buildings need showers too.
In this case the underground high pressure water pipes come in very handy. When they become too worn out they demand some attention and complain about this to houses in a furious fountain way.
There is a video inside too.
Two Train Stories [updated]
Today we have two photo series connected with trains. First one are shots from what was or still is a train museum in Pereslavl, Russia. It might even look more cool in such semi-abandoned condition.
The Balancing Eggs and Unbalanced Fans
Some short stories and curiousities that are too short for a separate post. First photo is a small size version of the epic drawing made by some Russian guy depicting truely epic fight between Hollywood heroes against Russian cartoon and cinema characters. By the click you can zoom it on and see in detail who is winning.
Travel Russia Cars
When someone goes travel to Russia he needs to be well equiped. I am not talking about the big cities like Moscow or St. Petersburg or some other urbanized areas of the country, no when he goes to Real Russia, he needs Real Russian Camping Cars.
We have here today the most suitable recreation vehicles that Russian people use so that to make their weekend camping nice and easy.
Only in Russia 20
This weeks submitted photos of the casual moments of life in Russia. Only in Russia.
Daily 16
Some assorted stuff submitted by Russian readers.
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