What is done with written-off equipment in the Russian army? They disassemble it, of course. Though sometimes it is bought
by other countries. Tanks T-62M1, for example. Here we'll show how they are loaded on railway platforms.
Categories Economics, Photos, Science, Technology
The Big Solar Furnace represents a complex optical and mechanical mechanism with automated control systems. It consists of a heliostat field and a paraboloid concentrator forming the stationary flow of energy of high density in the focal zone of the concentrator. The area of the reflecting surface of the
heliostat field - 3020m2, the concentrator - 1840 m2. The temperature in the focus of the concentrator rays exceeds 3000 C. It's the biggest solar furnace in the world! The solar furnace is located in Uzbekistan, its power is 700kW. There is the second furnace like this, it is situated in France.
Categories Business, Economics, Photos, Technology
It is a large Novosibirsk plant producing turbo-, hydro- generators and induction
motors. The plant where work never stops. The plant you want to photograph.
Categories Automotive, Culture, Photos, russian army, Technology
Some days a week they rehearse flights of helicopters Mi-8 in Kubinka for the Victory Day performance over Red Square. 5
vehicles take off and fly over the polygon in Alabino where land equipment and columns of military men are going along.
Categories Business, Culture, Funny, Photos, Russian People, Society, Technology
More photos of girls from
PhotoForum exhibition 2012.
Categories Funny, Photos, Russian People, Technology
Look what one guy has
turned his room into...
Categories Automotive, Business, Economics, History, Photos, Russian People, Science, Society, Technology
In April, 11th, the plant "Petrozavodskmash" held a topping-out ceremony: the new sector of production and assembly of steam-generator shells for nuclear power
plants has been opened. It's just the first stage of the program aimed at fully-fledged production of all reactor equipment for nuclear power plants.
The word "oba" is translated from the Kazakh as "burial" or "plague". So it's not clear what idea was in minds of the developers who gave the name to this micro-district "BesOba"... Though people
continue discussions about the house that fell in Karaganda. Its dwellers do not know what to wait while their neighbours leave their flats in fear or start restoring what they have...
We are at the flax-spinning mill in Vyazniki, the Vladimir region. It's really ancient, dated something back 17**s years... For the last two centirues Vyazniki has been a Russian flax capital, it had a plenty of such mills all around.
Capitalists were given land in such unfavourable places like swamps and ravines. This one stands in the ravine. Height differential on the territory is 4 storeys. You enter the first floor on one side and exit from the fifth...
Categories Culture, Other, Photos, Russian Nature, Technology
Inside of this post you'll see trams in the subway
tunnels, Volgograd roofs and dancing bridges.
