Some photos of the girls who beautified
PhotoForum exhibition this year.
Half a year ago the second Kazakhstan telecommunications satellite "KazSat-2" was launched from site #200 of Baikonur with help of a launch vehicle
"Proton-2". What has been happening to the satellite all this time? In what condition is it now? How and from where is it controlled?
Categories Automotive, Business, Economics, Exclusive, Photos, Science, Technology
We are in Kiselevsk - a little mining town near Novokuznetsk, at Mine №12 - one of the oldest enterprises of the Kuznetsk
Basin that has been working since 1917. Here, you'll see opencast mines and a coal cleaning plant of the enterprise.
Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian People, Science, Society, Technology
On 12th April, 1961, a spacehip "Vostok" with a pilot-cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin aboard made its first flight into space. "Vostok" was launched from the space launching site
"Baikonur", at 9:07 of Moscow time. The space ship made a single circle around the Earth and landed at 10:55 near Smelovka village, the Saratov region.
"Let's conquer space!" For your attention is a set of
nice posters of the Soviet Space Program 1958-1963.
There's such an old saying: "One tazy will feed the whole aul". Hunting greyhounds used to be the main wealth of Kazakhs. Since the second
half of the last century their number began decreasing. Today there are not more than 300 of real tazy, like "300 spartans"...
We are back in Kiev, at the abandoned
shop of printed circuits production.
Categories History, Photos, Science, Technology
Our destination today is the space communications centre "Medvezhye Ozera" ("Bear Lakes"). Here at the polygon they provide TV broadcast and satellite communication not only for Russia but for outside too. One of the four grand radio telescopes is located here. It's unique due to its power and dimensions of the
antenna providing data reception from satellites. The diameter of the antenna mirror is 60m. The construction is dated 1983. It used to be almost impossible to come close to such strategic constructions without special permission. Today any countryside boy may play on its territory...
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Syzran Power Plant is one of the oldest in Russia. It is located in the picturesque bend of the Syzranka river. The capacity is rather modest but it still
works being a monument of history and architecture at the same time. It's nice that there are still people who are indifferent to the object.
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Filter-ventilator unit is a necessary attribute of a civil defence shelter. The unit can function in two modes - in the mode of pure ventilation and ventilation with filtration. Its
main elements are oil filters and filter boxes. In this post you'll see remains of the filtration units assembly line and the laboratory where they tested filter boxes.
