A person from Kaliningrad found a piece of equipment washed ashore. He had no clue what this os so he shared the photos with the Internet and we
repost them here, too. Besides looking like a military object it has the word "Liquidator" written in bug letters on the side of it.
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In Kazan downtown they filmed a movie, or exactly to say a TV show. And this movie is set in the past, during the
revolution times, and according to a directors vision they didn't have roads at that time in the city. So..
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This house in Yekaterinburg is sort of famous around the neighborhood. It has a lot of ventilation pipes
going around the building, and at night when the wind is strong the house starts to "sing".
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Here are some vintage Soviet movie posters and box set cover art for the movies the Soviet Union was selling abroad. They were translated into foreign languages already but some need some explaining. We also tried to find them online and we have good news - most of the movies that were made by the Moscow
"Mosfilm" studio are available to watch on YouTube with English subtitles, so just see the posters, read the taglines and watch the ones you think sounding interesting right here. They don't let us embed the movies but you can click "youtube link" and see it on youtube for free.
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Yesterday there was an unsuccessful launch of manned Soyuz mission. The rocket broke in pieces, but the crew managed to eject using the special
Launch Escape System. What is this system? Here is the story. (Red arrow shows where is this system is installed on the Soyuz rocket).
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In a forest near Novgorod, just 25 meters away from an active railway road a World War 2 air
bomb was discovered. The weight of the bomb was almost one ton. People called the authorities.
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Today a pilot was rescued from mountains in Yakutia, Russia. He had to spend five days in a wrecked helicopter waiting until the
weather became better. Right after he crashed he sent an SOS signal but the rescue teams couldn't reach him because of bad visibility.
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"My grandad asked me to scan some of his photo slides so they not get lost with time, among them there were some photos from Afghanistan (during USSR entered
Afganistan in 1979 probably). So I publish those photos" - writes a man on Russian popular website. And we re-post them here too for your viewing pleasure.
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