Those little islands are called "bushes". There are oil pumps placed on them. This is a Samotlor oil field near Nizhnevartovsk. The oil deposits
are on the bottom of the lake and swamp so there are many artificial islands made on which they drill the well and put an oil pump.
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The man, the photographer - Sergei Borisov, was born into a "slave" family. Until 1861, slavery was legal in Russia in the form of serfdom. He was forced to work since an early age, until later he was freed and moved away to Barnaul where he found his
passion in photography and opened his own photo studio. As time passed by, it became the biggest and most popular studio in town, so he had enough money to go on a trip to the Altai mountains and he brought back over 1500 photos from there.
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These days, near Moscow, there is an "ARMY-2018" expo show going on. It is the fourth time in a row that it has
been held here. Marina, the photographer, went there and took some unique photos from the closed show.
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Vintage photographs of St.Petersburg (it was called Leningrad at that time) in 1924, the year when Lenin
died. The pictures are in high resolution, you can click and browse them with arrows in a larger size.
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This is the longest house in ex-USSR, Europe and in the World too - at least that's what they
say in the records book. This is a residential complex in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk.
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During the Soviet era, scientists were all the time coming up with a lot of weird ideas, which though weird, baffled everyone with their functionality. Some of those went into series production,
some, sadly, were never produced en masse. Some of the ambitious things can probably surprise even modern day people. Here are some of those, starting with a legendary Soviet snowmobile.
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A strong rain last night turned downtown Kiev into a mudpit. There was that much water that it took mud
and debris with it and flooded cars, stores, etc. Here are some photos by Vladimir Bugaenko and others, all on one page:
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In the 1970's there was a new building built in Moscow which was very different by design
from the regular "panel block" houses of that era. Here is an insight into its history.
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Belarus blogger, Maxim Mirovic, has been to Chernobyl four times. He has some facts he would like to share. The first one (pictured above): "The Chernobyl zone has two
perimeters. One at 30km, called by hikers 'Tridsyatka' and another at 10km, called by hikers 'Desyatka'. Unlike Desyatka, Tridsyatka is virtually clean.". More:
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