Moscow. We've paid much tribute to its
beauty, let's show its ugly side.
Moscow welcomes the Avengers: Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downy Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth in the
movie theatre "October". Fans of the super heroes were ready to wait for them for three hours!
The word "oba" is translated from the Kazakh as "burial" or "plague". So it's not clear what idea was in minds of the developers who gave the name to this micro-district "BesOba"... Though people
continue discussions about the house that fell in Karaganda. Its dwellers do not know what to wait while their neighbours leave their flats in fear or start restoring what they have...
Categories Culture, Other, Photos, Russian Nature, Technology
Inside of this post you'll see trams in the subway
tunnels, Volgograd roofs and dancing bridges.
Categories Other, Photos, Russian Nature
Krasnaya Presnya is one of the most
favourite places of Muscovites.
Fine wood, gilding, marble and crystal: welcome
to the residence of the Ukrainian president!
Underground rivers are a part of urban utility services communication that make our life comfortable. But we can't live in a
city full of rivers or canals. Moscow has hundred of them and they are hidden underground in concrete manifolds.
Zaha Hadid is probably the most famous female architect of our time. Here we present photos of her project - the Concert Hall of the Cultural Centre named after Geidar
Aliev in Baku, Azerbaijan. The absolute harmony of smooth lines creates an illusion of eternity, the inside concert hall is fully (!) made of natural wood.
There's such an old saying: "One tazy will feed the whole aul". Hunting greyhounds used to be the main wealth of Kazakhs. Since the second
half of the last century their number began decreasing. Today there are not more than 300 of real tazy, like "300 spartans"...
Categories Other, Photos, Russian Nature, Society
Prokopevsk is a coal mining city where boiler houses work all year around. No wonder that snow
is dark there. It's scary to imagine what the citizens of the city breathe in...
