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Wednesday, 19 June, 2013

Categories History, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society

There was time when people were not afraid of bathing in the Moscow river. The water was clear enough and people were less demanding than today. 50-70 years ago they didn't think much about ecology or treatment

plants, they polluted the river and it was considered to be normal. Boys swimming opposite the Kremlin were not uncommon. It was a good time. If they had a beach near the Kremlin today, would you plunge?

Categories Economics, History, Photos, Russian People, Society

It was a whole epoch. The country was trying to come back to normal life after the war. Old and young people were spending their lives at the collective farms and it was as hard as hell. Women

gave birth to children not in hospitals but right on the fields and those children often died from various deseases as well as adults. Many people couldn't survive that period.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Society

Moscow is rapidly changing, new high-rise buildings are growing and some people like it, others -

don't. Here's a selection of photos to compare Moscow of the 80s with Moscow of the present days.

Categories Business, Economics, History, Photos, Technology

It's not the first time we are coming to the Moscow brewing plant "Ochakovo". But the place is worth visiting again. We are

going to show you how they make beer at the plant, show you all these pipes and tanks with the golden liquid.

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One boy liked to walk in the forest. He walked alone because he lived in a small village and he was the only child there. Recollecting the stories about the war which had been told him by his grandfather he

was dreaming to find something that remained from that immemorial time. He even didn't suspect that he would touch the history once and find himself in an underground shelter of the war times.

Categories History, Photos, russian army, Russian People

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year war during the Cold War fought by the Soviet Army and the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the

Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement and foreign "Arab–Afghan" volunteers. The Afghan government fought with the intervention of the Soviet Union as its primary ally.

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The Kamov Ka-26 is a Soviet light utility helicopter with co-axial rotors. The Ka-26 entered production in 1966. 850 have been built.They were used in various sectors of economy but some people associate them

with the Soviet traffic police. Yes, orange and blue Kamov helicopters used to patrol Soviet roads. Today it's a luck to see a Ka-26 in the air, Mi-2 helicopters are far more frequently seen.

Categories History, Photos, Russian Nature, Science

Ruskealsky gap is a place in Karelia. It's a huge hole about ten meters (33 ft) deep with water on its bottom. As locals say it formed in the 1960s after strong explosions

in the neighbouring quarry. The roof of the old waterlogged tunnels broke and fell into the water. A huge hole 20 x 30 m (65x100 ft) appeared on the surface.

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Looking at this photo you may exclaim "some bunker again!" Is there anything we haven't seen yet? But yes, there

is. This one is in Moscow. It has a museum inside, but it's only the small part of the whole structure.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian Art

There is a nice place in Moscow - a house of the Volkov-Yusupovs. It's one of the oldest buildings in Moscow, it was built in the XVII century and was painted and decorated in the end of the XIX century in the

"Russian style". The house of Volkov-Yusupovs appeared in the times of Ivan the Terrible, it used to be surrounded by the forest then and the tsar liked to hunt there and stay in the house.

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