This photo album is devoted to the Soviet aviation 1941-1945. Check out the
aircrafts used to defend the USSR and other countries from the Nazi enemy.
Odessa catacombs formed at the place of a quarry. The city was growing very fast and they needed a lot of
shell rock (it's the main construction material in Odessa). The length of the catacombs is 3000 km!
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This is the Moscow Helicopter Building Factory named after M. Mil' which is a part of the holiding "Helicopters of Russia". In fact not everything is allowed to be shown here and the place is rather big to see most
of it at once. So we will only see the HeliVert shop where an Italian helicopter Agusta Westland 139 is assembled, one of the main exhibits of the event that took place recently - Heli Russia 2013.
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The newest invisible corvette "Boikiy" of project 20380 has been given to the Baltic Fleet. The navy flag of Russia was solemnly hoisted on the ship which is standing in St. Petersburg now. Project 20380 includes three ships in general: the main corvette, "Guarding", was given to the Baltic Fleet in February 2008, another
one was called "Smart" and joined the fleet in October 2011. All corvettes of the project are armed with 100 mm universal artillery systems, anti-aircraft missile and artillery systems, supersonic missiles and automatic gun mounts. The air group of the ship also includes one helicopter Ka-27PL.
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This Il-18 appeared at the park of Tolstoy in Moscow last year. And it was strange for everyone to see it there. Still there was some hope the plane will be made
use of. And they kept saying that maybe Mi-26 helicopter will take it from there. But we've recently known that everything is over for the Il-18...
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At the military parade that took place recently in
Belarus this part of show was probably the best!
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This ship can often be found in various photo collections of submerged vessels. And it is quite a spectacle indeed! The combat ship with
turrets and cannons stuck in the shallow waters! But what heppened to this Soviet ship? Why is it at the Norwegian banks now?
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We are going to join some helicopters and fly straight to the exhibition Heli Russia-2013 and also visit
the joint company of "Russian Helicopters" and "AgustaWestland" where they build AW-139 helicopters.
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Why is this helicopter called "crocodile"? Maybe because it's the first thing which comes to your mind when you see it at
the distance of some meters.The second thing which you think about is that you need to run away... immediately!
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Army is the place that turns boys into real men. This is what we usually believe. Real soldier must be ready for
anything and have no fear. Just see how a young soldier is trying to prove he can break bricks with his bare hands.
