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Abandoned Russian Town that Stored Nuclear Weapons 200 Km from USA Coast in Winter

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This town Gudym is just 200 km away from USA. Probably this is why it was used as a top secret warehouse for the nuclear weapons. The heart of the town is a huge concrete hole in the ground that used to store nuclear weapons. The surrounding houses were used for the families

working on this underground object. Now everything stays abandoned. Houses sometimes burn in fires, and underground maze is used by strangers. We had some photos from here before, but Sergei, Russian blogger, went there in winter and saw how it looks like:

Victory Day Air Show Rehearsal 2017

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On May 9th, 2017 there would be an annual "Victory Day" parade in Moscow and the air show is big part of it. Here

Russian blogger Marina went to see how they rehearse for the event. A chance to see nice show up close:

Charging a phone in Russian army

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Since recently Russian army has officially allowed to own mobile phones for the soldiers. That was great new for them, especially for the soldiers that serve their compulsory draft service. They can use phones

one day a week - on Sunday. But since army was not equipped with enough outlets for all those chargers such constructs appear everywhere where soldiers live. Let's take a look at some more:

Never Seen Before Photos of Interiors of Newest Russian ARMATA Tank

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Russian ARMATA tank is the newest Russian tank. Only exterior photos were published before. But now, thanks to a journalist

effort, we've got to see what it looks from inside. Just a little time ago this was a very classified material!

Abandoned nuclear warhead armory

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Sometime we publish different abandoned Soviet objects that being visited by Russian bloggers. This time they have visited pretty interest place that was very important during the

Cold War. It was used to store nuclear projectiles and thus tells a lot about technology used by Soviet army to store such type of substances. Let's take a look:

Shamrock: Russian most northern military base, exterior and interior photos

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"Shamrock" is Russian newest and most Northern military base in the world. It has most permanent Northern building ever built. It can host over 150 people autonomously for over 18th month without resupply. It's located on Frantz Joseph Land, it's one of the most Northernmost parts of Russia -

192 small islands in a Northern Ocean, just 500 miles from the North Pole! Before we had some photos of the place, but now Russian ministry of defense declassified more photos and also for the first time ever showed interiors of the base so lets see them fresh and hot!

Funny Photos from Russian Army

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In USSR there was a saying that anyone who served in an army, doesn't laugh in circus anymore. There were plenty of reasons for this - army was seemed a tough experience for most of young Soviet boys. In modern Russia they say army

became much more pleasant, you don't serve two years anymore, just one, you get better food, better cloths, you can have your mobile phone etc. But still army is a supplier of funny photos and we tap in some of those here:

Russian air force commanders flying on helicopters

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A few photos made by Russian blogger Babashov at recent flights of Russian air base air commanders flying helicopters.

There is a rule that airbase commanders from time to time have to pilot helicopters themselves and so they did:

Training flights on Brand New Yak-130 Training Jets in Russian Air Force Academy

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Since the weather is becoming more summerish in Russia, especially in Southern Russia, it's time to post some fresh plane spotting photos.

Russian blogger Kuban-Spotting got lucky and visited Russian Air Force school near Armavir city. Here are his photos and a story:

Russian aerobatics group Russkie Vityazi got new SU jets

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The "Russkie Vityazi (Russian Knights)" aerobatics crew is the most famous crew in Russia. Participated in hundreds of different airshows nationally and abroad. Now they

finally got brand new SU-30SM jets and were training to take part in a Malaysian airshow that will take place March 21-25 this year. Let's see their new birds.

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