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    Where Does Sewage Flow?

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    Categories Exclusive, Photos, Science, Society, Technology
    Have you ever seriously thought where water poured out into the sink or flushed into the toilet flows? And what happens to leftover food and our waste products which disappear in pipes? Even if you haven't, you've probably heard at least something of treatment facilities and maybe know that during the
    cleaning process silt is obtained, which is then used for producing gas! Today we'll visit the Kuryanovsky water treatment plant in the south of Moscow and trace the way of sewage "from pipe to pipe". We'll also visit a mini thermoelectric plant running on biogas produced from silt.
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    Colliders: What Are They For?

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    Even the ancient Greeks believed that substance consists of tiny particles called atoms. The word "atom" means "indivisible" in Greek. However, with the development of science, it became clear that neither an atom, nor a proton and neutron are truly elementary particles. They consist of the
    smaller ones - quarks. Then neutrinos and antiprotons were discovered and now science knows about 400 different particles. To study their qualities and structures the mankind invented a very smart device - a collider. Let's look at some of them and learn how they function.
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    Manipulating The Weather

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    Categories Photos, Russian Nature, Science, Technology
    The cloud seeding technology is widely used by many countries of the world in an attempt to establish control over nature. They add silver iodide, dry ice and
    liquid nitrogen to the clouds causing immediate precipitation. As a result, the rain will be over by the time the clouds reach the place of destination.
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    An Old Technological Institute In Kharkov

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    Categories Culture, History, Photos, Society, Technology
    Recently we've seen how old Russian schools and gymnasiums looked. This technological institute was founded in Kharkov, Ukraine in 1885. During the Soviet times it eliminated
    shortages of engineers. The following pictures are taken from an album dedicated to the 10th or 15th anniversary of the institute in 1900 or 1905 respectively.
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    Ghost Military Base

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    Categories Photos, russian army, Technology
    Russia has always paid enormous attention to strengthening of its military power.  In former times
     numerous military bases with restricted access were set up along the whole territory of the country.
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    The Leading Russian Aircraft Repairing Plant

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    Vnukovo Aviation Repair Plant No 400 (VARZ-400) is a leading Russian
    center of aircraft maintenance support. Some photos from there.
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    Not A Tanky Day

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    Categories Photos, russian army, Technology
    With all this parade stuff and tons of troops marching across one event left unnoticed at
    one of the post Soviet space capitals. In Kirgizia they upend the tank. Watch.
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    A Big Plant For Big Details

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    Categories Culture, Photos, Russian People, Technology
    There is a metal plant in Saint-Petersburg that produces details for hydropower and nuclear power stations.
    That is why its machine tools are simply huge with the size of a small house, as are the parts they make.
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    Three Beautiful Drawbridges of St. Petersburg

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    As you probably know, St. Petersburg is famous for its beautiful drawbridges across the Neva river. Thousands of tourists come to see them annually. But we doubt that any of them knows how
    they are drawn and who does this work. Today you have a lucky chance not only to admire the beauty of some bridges but also watch the complicated process of their being raised.
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    A Small Version Of The Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydropower Plant

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    The Mainsk hydropower plant is the younger sister of the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant (SSHP). Both are united in one hydroelectric complex and
    are closely connected: the first is reregulating, the second is peaking. The technical level of this complex is unique for Russia.
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