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"ATEK" is one of the most famous abandoned places in Kiev, Ukraine. It impresses with its huge area and integrity. Similar

Moscow places which are not guarded are never preserved like this. Right now we will visit the metalworking shop.

Categories History, Photos, Technology

We are at the Monino airfield again. And this post is devoted to Tu-4, Russian copy of V-29. This Tu-4 (serial number 2805103) was built in 1952 at the Kuibyshev Aviation Plant, it's the only Tu-4 preserved in Russia. It is

said to have participated in the attack of Budapest in 1956. The order to drop bombs was scrubbed out when the plane was already approaching the city. See many pictures of the vehicle inside the post.

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Categories Automotive, Photos, Russian Nature, Technology

Hibiny is the place on the Kola peninsula. It most survives thanks to minerals extraction. But what will happen when they run out of minerals? What will happen with dozens of

companies and thousands of people who work for them? They will probably leave. In fact this place could become a wonderful ski resort. But hardly it will do.

Categories Funny, Technology, Video

One guy was given a rather stupid present for his birthday

- a shovel. He decided to make use of it anyway...

Categories Business, Photos, russian army, Science, Technology

What makes combat aviation allmighty and unvulnarable? For the answers we'll go to the factory making military equipment. This place is in Moscow, and it's

quite unusual, photographers are normally never allowed to be there. It's such a luck to take some shots of a secret production like this!

Categories History, Photos, russian army, Technology

This photo album is devoted to the Soviet aviation 1941-1945. Check out the

aircrafts used to defend the USSR and other countries from the Nazi enemy.

Categories History, Photos, Science, Technology

Do we really know what is there, out in space? Not really much, we can only look at stars or ... hear them. Smart radiophysicist gave us such an opportunity when had built their huge metal plates in dense pine forests far from big busy cities. The grand ears of the planet were intended to contact the far and

alien space. They used to sit at a fire and sing their romantic songs when rested from numerous devices, apparatuses, indicators... We don't know what stars told them. But today all those devices are broken, the grand ears of the planet only hear rustling leaves of young birches....

Categories History, Photos, Technology

It is known that Prokudin-Gorsky was taking pictures of the battleship "Potemkin" in 1905, but unfortunately those unique photographs were lost together with other original works from photo

collection devoted to Sevastopol. The pictures shown in this post give you a chance to imagine how they could look in color. On the picture above is a squadron battleship "Navarin", 1902.

Categories Photos, Russian Nature, Technology

This is another hydro power plant of North Ossetia - Zaramagskaya HPP. It is definitely worth visiting. The whole structure is very complicated and divided into two interconnected plants - the main one and the one being built, HPP-1. When finished it will become the largest hydro power plant of the North Caucasus and

will have the highest water pressure compared to other hydro power plants of Russia - 630 meters. Zaramagskaya HPP has already been built for thirty years. The head HPP with power of fifteen MW was put into service in 2009. It is located on the Ardon river near the gorge up to 1000 meters deep.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Technology

This post is about the hotel "Moskva", one of the biggest and most splendid Soviet hotels. It occupies

the whole residential quarter. "Moskva" became one of the first hotels built in Soviet Moscow.

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