A successful German photographer Herber List was known to work with top notch editions all over the world, including such names as Vogue, Harper's Bazar and many more. But not many know that before his successful career in fashion photography he
was enlisted into Nazi army and went to conquer USSR under German command. There he also was making photos on his personal camera. And here is the result of his "trip" to Ukraine. Art photography meets land under Nazi occupation.
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John Shultz has visited Kiev in 1958 and brought back tons of photos. Kiev the capital of Ukraine now, was a Soviet city at one time and also a capital of Ukrainian Socialistic Soviet
Republic,one of the Fifteen Soviet States. Those were not just photos but awesome color slides of the city at that time. Very atmospheric in telling the story. Take a look!
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And now the Russian army drill. Over 8,000 soldiers and officers started their drill with some heavy artillery. Smit Smitty
went there and took some nice military photos. Now we offer you to see for yourself what Russian army is up to.
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Chernobyl exclusion zone is the place where because of radiation population was evacuated. Abandoned villages stretch from Pripyat itself to as long as Belarus. All those territories are dangerous to live for any human and will be so for at least 200 years more.
Some say, only after 2,000 years people can return here. However for every rule, there is an exclusion (pun intended). Meet this old man who lives inside the exclusion zone of Chernobyl together with only two other solitary people living around.
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The Book of Guinness World Records is one of the most respected encyclopedic sources that can prove or disapprove some fact, settle some
dispute. Russians have made their contribution to the Book as well. These are the main thirteen achievements from Russia.
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55 years ago a man flew to space and what's more important he managed to come back! But seven years after, taking his penultimate exam to further fly alone, he crashed with his mentor in MiG-15 aircraft... Why did he decide to fly?? Probably he was missing the sky... This publication is about his deathplace. It has been recently visited by blogger fotografersha, who made an interesting story to describe the shots. Firth of all, it gets heavy on your heart once you're there. Many years are gone, but seeing this
circle where the craft crashed, is still heartbreaking. For most Russian people Yura Gagarin is an ideal person, almost unreal. He undoubtedly deserved to be the first man in space. And the country is proud. The official version of the crash: due to the rapidly changing situation in the air, the crew was forced to make an aggressive maneuver and spinned in. The pilots desperately tried to get the craft into a hoorizontal position but it collided on the ground and both died.
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Only in Russia girl can go and order herself a photo session with a huge bear. No muzzles, no chains, no precautions - where is it else possible?
Bear can leak her cheeks, she hugs him, etc etc. And every girl can just go pay a few roubles and get those photos. Only in Russia.
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A few months ago there was a video how the army officials were presenting a huge futuristic armored army truck to the president. The car was fast named "Russian Batmobile" by Internet audience. It seemed that it's just a cool concept and it would
pass lots of time before the actual trucks would be in the army units. However, recently some of them were spotted during "anti-terror offensive" in most Southern Russian part - Dagestan. Let's see the actual photos and a video:
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These huge giants are doomed. They are going to be dismantled very soon. Two of the largest atomic submarines in the world
"Arhangelsk" and "Severstal" (named after Russian corporation) would be torn apart and scraped for metal in the near future.
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This awesome place is located inside Russian agency which was developing the infamous Russian jets with "LA" index - La-5, La-7, La-250 etc and some winged missiles ZUR-205, ZUR-217 etc. It is a former top secret Soviet facility now you can, with some effort, enter and see over twenty five real Soviet space
vehicles, including the Lunokhod - the Soviet moon rover and also other vehicles that traveled to moon and back: Luna-16, Luna-20, Luna-24 etc. Also the Venera ship which went to Venus! You can also see Gagarin's landing module! So thanks to a Russian blogger Denis we can see them all now!
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