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Categories History, Photos, Technology

Interesting pictures of the rescue ship "Commune" that has recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. It was launched back in

November, 1913 as a ship of the Russian Imperial Navy and it's still in service, as a vessel of the Black Sea Fleet.

Categories Automotive, History, Photos, Technology

Next to the hangar of the Murmansk military museum of the Northern Fleet there are many

self-propelled military vehicles and tanks in a poor condition. We decided to show you them too.

Categories Photos, Technology

There is a factory in Voronezh, Russia, that has recently started making modern polymer materials (butadiene-styrene thermoplastic elastomers). Such polymers are used for road construction, roofing materials, glue making, various types of

plastic, in footwear industry. In the former Soviet countries it's the only factory making such products. We are not going to describe complicated chemical processes, we will simply have a short excursion to the factory.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Technology

Most of us treat Soviet architecture of the 1960-80s rather sceptically. Such opinion is reasoned, of course. Nevertheless the project institutions of the USSR also created very bold

structures which looked like aliens from some sci-fi movies. Here is a list of the craziest, most stereotype breaking buildings born in the times of Khruschev and Brezhnev.

Categories Photos, Society, Technology

You already know that Russia has lots of cool abandoned objects including military ones. It's sad, true.

But such objects attract many adventure seekers, photographers and airsoft players, of course!

Categories Photos, Technology

Just several photos from the Kuzbas car manufacturing company founded in 2008 that makes cisterns, gondola

cars, railway platforms for cargo transportation with lifting capacity of 130, 220, 320 tons etc.

Categories Automotive, History, Photos, Technology

Most of the planes stored in the hangar today were found in the Kola peninsular and restored in the 70-80s. In 1998 the roof of the hangar

collapsed and damaged many of them. So they look quite miserable. Nevertheless they are still precious, every plane has its own real history...

Categories Culture, Photos, Technology

Today we are going to show you how they pick cotton in Uzbekistan. It's quite interesting cause most part of clothes we wear is made from cotton. In Uzbekistan cotton is one of the main items of income, in 2008 it was the third country in the world according to the export of cotton and the sixth - according to its production.

Just the way people used to be forced to work on collective farms in the Soviet times, practically all students and state employees are made to pick cotton in Uzbekistan. In fact it's a voluntary work nobody can refuse to do. It's not paid for, of course. By the way school children do not participate.

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When we speak about Chernobyl-2, we usually mean the radar station "Duga". In fact it's the object that makes this area different from the others in the exclusion zone. It's a huge construction, its antennas are visible almost from any point of the zone. "Duga" had been closed for visitors for a long

period of time but since October 2013 anyone has been able to come there. Nevertheless Chernobyl-2 is not only "Duga" radar station, it's also the territory of the former military unit with a dwelling sector for the staff. It's the very object you're going to see after the jump.