We have already showed you photos of Moscow taken in 1909. Let us see the way the city was changed in 22 years. The
photos below were taken in 1931 by Branson DeCou, a traveller, and were later colored with aniline ink.
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Check out these beautiful pictures taken by a
photographer during his trip to Kazakhstan.
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At the time of cold war an immense amount of military equipment was created in the USSR. We were lucky not to have a global war but military
equipment retained. Every year the numerous machines and equipment became older and older and were either dismantled or abandoned.
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Chogori is one of the most dangerous mountain peaks to climb. It is known to mountaneers as peak K2. In August, 2011 mountain climbers Maksut Zhumaev and Vasily Pivtsov from Kazakhstan, after five unsuccessful attempts, managed to conquer the
summit. The expedition lasted for over two months and included representatives form Germany, Poland, Austria and Argentine who had to face a lot of obstacles on their way to K2. Below is what Maksut Zhumaev says about it.
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The training center of engineer troops located in Volgograd can be reached by plane and after that you will
have to spend 1,5 hours in a bus if you want to look at the polygon where the training is going on.
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This cute thing is a bear cub whose
mother has been killed by poachers.
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North. Tundra. Snow. The nearest residential area is hundreds kilometers away. Many centuries ago, ancestors of modern Khanty and Komi people used these paths carrying furs, fish and utensils. Today, we will show you an expedition on snowmobiles that tried to do the same. The
expedition was called ‘Great Northern Route and went through the northern part of Eurasia covering the territory which, according to anthropologists, ethnographers and historians, was used by people of the North for trade, exchange and settling.
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The following photos of Moscow of 1959 were made by
Carl Mydans who posted them in Life magazine.
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It is well-known that Transbaikal or Zabaykalsky Krai is a region with snow-capped mountains and huge ice fields to the east
of Lake Baikal in Russia. But not many people are aware of the fact that a true desert can be found in the place.
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Jacques Dupâquier, a French scientist, historian and member of the Communist Party of France, visited the Soviet Union three times. Below there are photographs that he took in 1956 in Uzbekistan. “Spending several days in Moscow, we flew to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The old propeller planes flew no higher than 3,200 m so we were able to enjoy Central Asia to the full. Tashkent was a large city with an only avenue. Nevertheless, it all was destroyed in the 1966 earthquake. I have been to its market and saw ladies wearing traditional costumes, went to a mosque and met local officials…” Recalling his trip, Dupâquier would say the following, “I made a bunch of photos
from the plane…” “I saw their ‘Virgin Lands’, a grandiose project which however was not fulfilled properly. I saw huge fields with a lot of agricultural equipment. They had no hangars and kept grain in trenches, like they did in the Middle Ages. They had no protection from rats and bad weather. When I saw it, I understood why this project failed…” “People harvested cotton with their hands and it was terrible… It was only in Soviet movies where they showed all those combines and other equipment…” “I loved Uzbek people. They were so calm and peaceful. Perhaps, all that vanished several years later…”
