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This Gipsy band has settled on the outskirts of Algeshevo, the most populated area in Chuvashia. The band is ruled by a Gipsy Baron. In general they have 15 houses and a bit more than 300 people - it's only several families.

By summer they plan to increase the number of children and consequently their population up to 400. Many kids play in the streets, those who are not too little repair the roof, young girls avoid cameras.

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Some more cool ads of Soviet

cars. The first part can be found

here. Read more...

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These are the photos from a big photo collection of Albert Kahn devoted to Mongolia visited by a photographer Stefan Passe in 1913. Mongolia declared independence from China in 1911. It was under protectorate of the Russian Empire at the time of Passe’s journey,

with full autonomy and own theocratic leaders. But, after only 1 year of protectorate, Russian Empire recognized suzerainty of China over Mongolia. The country from the point of view of a civilized European was a shocking feodalic reservation.

The Factory of the Russian Orthodox Church

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An artistic-production plant "Sofrino" is one of the largest production sites of the Russian Orthodox Church. Here they make everything: candles,

icons, books, innumerable quantity of church utensils. The entreprise is a secure facility so it's not easy to witness their work.

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You know it's the most high-speed sailing ship among the existing ones today. And not everyone

has a chance to come aboard. Here you can see what interesting the sailing ship has there.

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A photographer Diana Markosyan working in a Moscow agency in 2010 asked to be sent to Chechnya. Diana grew in Russia but studied in the USA, in 2010 she was only 20 years old but she was interested in the notorious region. The agency refused to send her there and she decided to go by herself. Grozny became her aim and later - her home. Many colleagues of Diana didn't want to go to Chechnya but she returned

there after the first trip. In November 2011 she came there to stay. According to Diana it's dangerous and risky to work and live in Chechnya, girls are often kidnapped. In her project Diana Markosyan tried to show life of girls living in Chechnya. "Coming here for a week is pretty much different from staying here forever". Let's see how it feels to be a Chechen girl.

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These people even can't hide a watch on the picture... But in Soviet time they did well without Photoshop. For a proof you can go to the GULAG exhibition in the Moscow Museum devoted

to photography falsification in the epoch of Stalin. It's called "The Commissar Vanishes", though not only commissars used to disappear and not on photos only. ..

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The exclusion Chernobyl zone on the terrotiry of Belarus. Tulgovichi village. It is the only local village still inhabited by people. In 1986 after

the catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power station all citizens of the polluted territories were evicted but some refused to leave.

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This time we will go down to the mysterious underground of Serpukhov, the Moscow region. The bomb shelter is rather odd: starting from its exposure to a blast wave (all rules of protective shelters embedding are violated) and finishing with its poor condition (it's abandoned and

flooded) and bad planning. For some unknown reason it was built from two not interconnected parts. Each block has its own entry and its emergency exit. There are a DPS and a filtration unit in one block and another filtration unit in the second one.

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Museum-drugstore is very cosy. And the building it's located in is rather interesting. What you can see here are various

pharmaceutic bottles, devices for making medicines... And you can definitely feel special atmosphere of the place.

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