A set of old photos of
Moscow in the 1920s.
1918. By the end of April Vyborg was about to fall under the pressure of the Germans and White Finns. Red Finns were opposing with all their might. Thus, on 21st of April,
2012, on the Battery Mountain (Batareynaya Gora) there was held a reconstruction devoted to the last days of the city defence from the stronger enemies.
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A set of old photos showing the Siberian
Way From Achinsk To Irkutsk 1906-12.
When a building is under renovation it's quite easy to enter it. So the author of
the photos got onto the roof of "Moskva" hotel to take these pictures.
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"Arsenyev Aviation company "Progress" named after Sazykin" is one of the largest enterprises of aerospace industry in Russia. The main pride of the company is combat
helicopters Ka-52 "Alligator" developed by the Kamov helicopter plant and produced for the Ministry of Defence. Let's see how these legendary vehicles are made.
Categories History, Photos, Russian Nature
This island doesn't look impressive from afar. Even plants do not beautify it,
only grass. But in this dull place one can see walruses, many of them...
Hospitals are probably classics of the abandoned objects. They attract with their gloomy atmosphere. This is a maternity hospital -
the building of the 19 century, beautiful architecture. It's quite empty inside though there are some interesting rooms.
This is going to be a very entertaining
excursion to the movie making studio of Moscow.
In April 14-15th, "the club of the military history of the 17th airborne division" (Klub vojenské historie 17th Airborne Division o.s.) held an annual reconstruction of battles between the German and American troops of 1945. In 1945 the third American army liberated the Czech cities: Ceske Budejovice, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary and was ready to proceede further to Prague. But in May, 5th, commander of General Staff of Red Army A. Antonov demanded
from general Eisenhower "not to move allied troops in Czechoslovakia to the east from the iniatially planned line". Everybody understood that those who would liberate Prague would be able to impose their political and economical rules on the Czech government. There were three alternatives: "western democracy", "market economy" and "the most advanced public system" - Leninism-Stalinism. Stalinism won.
