When there were no computers and the Internet and Soviet people could only dream of traveling they collected
books and postcards with images of remote cities and countries to examine them in their free time.
Categories Automotive, Business, Economics, History, Other, Photos, Science, Technology
Likino Bus Factory is a bus manufacturing company located
in Likino that produces Russian buses of GAZ group.
Kakhetia is an eastern part of Georgia that is
famous with its wines and monasteries.
Categories Culture, Economics, Photos, Russian People, Society
The young generation does not remember Moscow without immigrants because people from Central Asia began moving to the city over 20 years ago. Some of them tried to escape civil wars, others wanted to improve their economic situation. Going to Moscow, they had a good chance to earn some money to send to their families. Moscow
citizens are used to living with immigrants thinking them to be low-qualified workers. They see immigrants as a pool of cheap labor – cleaning men, loaders and builders. They call them non-whites and do not see anything bad about it. It is immigrants from Central Asia whom they insult in public.
Categories Automotive, Business, Economics, History, Other, Photos, Russian Nature, Society
A famous Russian proverb states that there are two main problems in Russia: fools and roads. Many roads are in a bad condition.
However, some new roads recently built are not even shown on the maps and today we'll get a chance to walk along such a road.
The plant where pole fittings are produced is rather new and appeared a couple of years ago. It was built instead of another
factory that used to produce transmission lines for track machines but was closed after collapse of the USSR.
Kazakhstani Electrolytic factory is the only
manufacturer of aluminum in Kazakhstan located in
Categories Business, Economics, Other, Photos, Russian People, Science, Society, Technology
The largest data-center in Russia is located in Samara and
owned by mobile telecommunications company MegaFon.
They are not shooting a scene for a fantastic movie here. The
magnificent construction you see is a solar surface located in Uzbekistan.
Check out photographs of an abandoned pipe and
tool-making factory located in Saint Petersburg:
