The first school day of children
whose parents are policemen.
Categories Culture, Photos, Russian People, Society
Elizaveta is a baker, mother of two sons and grandmother. She lives in the remote village, somewhere at the end of the European Russia. There are no roads leading there
overland, all around are swamps and remains of the mercilessly cut down trees. And only one plane arrives there twice a week and brings something the villagers need.
Just for some moments we want to go back to
the Soviet 80s - so different from today.
Categories Funny, Photos, Society, Technology
Here's a lesson how you can get 10 000 rubles instead of 5 000. One Russian user showed pictures of two notes which
successfully passed verification in the terminal and entered into an account as 10 000 rubles. They look this way...
Some interesting photographs of indigenous
peoples of Kamchatka taken back in the 1920s.
Some pictures to show you how the Soviet Union looked like in
the last year of the Stalin's epoch on coloured photos.
We are going to have a tour to the abandoned summer camps on the bank of the Desna river. Children's laughing used to be heard there and the
camps were full of kids, today it's the place of complete devastation and the only sound one can hear there is the sound of the wind.
Chernobyl and Pripyat are not the only inhabited places that suffered from the Chernobyl catastrophe, of course. It affected 230 settlements in the Kiev and Zhitomir regions and approximately the same number of settlements in Belarus. The contaminated villages on the Belorussian side were mostly buried while the Ukrainian ones are still getting slowly overgrown and captured by the nature. However
some houses are taken care of - their windows are regularly painted, gardens nearby are well-kept. Yes, some people do come back to the exclusion zone - mainly elderly ones who remember the war days, it's very important for them - to live on the native land. They amounted to a bit more than a thousand, less than 200 remained. One old couple even lives in the 10 km zone.
Categories Culture, Photos, Russian People, Society
Audrey Indombe from Congo and Anatoliy nicknamed "Troublemaker" found each other in the Internet. Their feelings became so deep that Audrey gave up her career of an actress and came to Chelyabinsk. Anatoliy saw a picture of Audrey in Facebook and could not resist from writing to her. They were communicating for two months being
thousands of kilometers away from each other. Then Anatoliy invited Audrey to his native city and sent her money for a trip. His friends were laughing at him - they were sure Audrey was one of many fraudsters who just wanted to get some money. But Anatoliy felt she would not betray him. And she did not.
Another retrospective journey into the history - rare and
interesting pictures of Arkhangelsk province, Russia, dated 1910.
