Inside of this post you'll see trams in the subway
tunnels, Volgograd roofs and dancing bridges.
Photos of a talented American photographer Howard Sochurek taken in the Leningrad Palace of the Pioneers and
Schoolchildren. Howard Sochurek was a member of the Nixon delegation in Russia in summer 1959.
Arkalyk is a city in central Kazakhstan, the centre of the Arkalyk district in the Kostanay region. It was founded in 1956, got
the status of the city in 1965. It's located 670 km from Astana, 480 km from Kostanay. Today it is nearly dead...
Categories Culture, Exclusive, History, Photos, Russian Art, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society
You've seen already some sets of photos by a famous Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky: 1, 2, 3. These are some close up views reavealing new details
definitely deserve your attention. On the photo fragment above: "On the river Sim at the station Ashi-Balashovskaya", 1910. Looks like a painting!
Categories Culture, Photos, Russian People, Society
Young people go from Moscow to St. Petersburg and back by electric trains. They have to change 4 times. All the way takes about 16 hours. They do not buy tickets. They either manage to escape controllers, or move from one car to another, or
controllers do not approach such a big marginal crowd being afraid (like in case with football fans). That's the meaning of such a journey - economy and adventures, you'll never mess up this country with any other else.
Categories Economics, Photos, Technology, Video
Another huge bridge project is close to its finale. The long-awaited bridge over Zolotoy Rog bay
united the centre of Vladivostok with Churkin cape. The final locking panel was lifted.
Categories Culture, Photos, Russian People, Society
We started to tell you about the kids adopted in villages last week. It's another, second, story. The dweller of a village Chany, Elena Podchasova, had always known she'd have adopted children. Today, apart from her own kids, she has 6 from other parents. She even wanted to adopt one more
little one but her husband Vladimir doubts they can afford it. And they are not so young already... The first step is the hardest. Then foster parents are afraid of nothing. They are rewarded by gratitude and love of children whose destiny changes for the better so much.
Categories Culture, Funny, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People
Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov has been shocking people with meat dresses longer than the pop singer has been eschewing pants. Both dabble in bloody items of clothing for shock value but, unlike Lady Gaga, the Russian artist doesn't do it for album sales or YouTube hits. Rather, Dimitri's edible sculptures aim to make statements about world hunger, barbarous
animal treatment, and the abuse of men. Most shocking is his 'Meat' series from a few years ago, where he covered naked models in chunks of flesh, intestines and other stomach-turning items. The aim here was to critique the nature of war, as well as humanity's ability to blatantly rip chunks off itself - just add HP sauce first, perhaps.
1990-1995, Russia. 23 shots of a French journalist Jean-Paul Guilloteau taken in different regions of Russia in the years that seem to be the period of mythology now... The landscape left by the USSR. Atmosphere, streets, faces, colors, clothes and things of that time, when the Soviet Empire vanished so fast but all its material
attributes were still around. The alternative future gave only hints: brights signs, lines in the subway, bottled beer that was not a hard-to-get thing anymore... These photos are so different from what we see everyday in the varicoloured flow of news of the XXI century so it was impossible to miss.
