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Sevastopol Soviet Postcards, back from 1989 [20 photos]

This is a collection of Soviet postcards of Soviet city Sevastopol. The city is located in Crimea and after the USSR collapse it hosted Russian Black Sea fleet.

There was agreement between the Russia and Ukraine that Russian fleet and Russian army would stay in Sevastopol and rent the place for some amount.

The Hearbreaking Story of Laika: Dog in Space Who Never Got Back

History, Photos, Science, USSR

On November 3rd, 1957 a space rocket was launched from Baikonur which brought a Sputnik-2 satellite to the Earth orbit. This was

the second man made space ship on the Earth orbit. And differently from its predecessor it was a much complex ship.

Five LADA Models That Could be the Brand Best Car, But Never Released

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The coolest LADAs in the brand's history. During the whole time LADA never could come up with

real "flagship" of its brand. But they tried, and here some tries we have listed here today.

1964-1975: Foreign Photographer in Russia Making Awesome Colored Photos

Photos, Russian People, USSR

In 1964-1975 this foreigner has visited USSR multiple times. During his journeys he had camera with him and

made unique and colorful photos of Soviet life. Here is a new part of his journeys we publish here.

Marathon in Russia at -45 C Temperature Outside [11 photos]

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A few days ago an officially coldest place of Russian "The Cold Pole" - village Oymakon - has conducted first international running competition called

"Pole of Cold". The participants had to run at temperature -45 C outside, there was a few distances to cover from 5 km to 42 kms. Here are some photos:

Assorted Photos from Russia [44 photos]

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Here is another set of assorted photos from Russia. From

funny to sort of clever and from weird to nice. Enjoy:

World in 2019: Russian Robot Was Hit by Self-Driving Tesla in Las Vegas

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A Russian company Promobot has brought their robots to Las Vegas to paritcipate in CES-2019 show. Then during the night before their robot as they report "was

hit by a Tesla car that was autopilot driving", they claim it makes the incident first robot to robot incident on public roads of the Earth.