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Very Powerful Super Athlete Girl Who Could Do Crazy Tricks Now Retired and Gave Up

History, Interesting Facts, Photos, Russian People, Society, Ukraine

When this girl was fourteen she was already lifting ten men. She was born in the family of a circus athlete in Ukraine. Neighbours tried to accuse her father in

child abuse - he was forcing her to lift the barbell and more. The anonymous witnesses reported to police, court hearings were lasting over 12 years.

A Sad Story of Yuri Gagarin Soviet Greatest Science Ship Beloved by Millions Betrayed by Ukraine

History, Interesting Facts, Photos, Science, Technology, Transport, Ukraine

Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet science flagship. Was built in Leningrad in 1971. It's 231 m long, and 32 m wide. Main engine has 14 000 kWt power. The crew is 136 people and also 220 scientists can travel and do their work. It has 1250 rooms, including 86 science labs. It was built to be able to communicate via satellites with all top important things in Russia. It had served variety of tasks. Most mind blowing is to come to Pacific and track Soviet missiles that were fired

from USSR to the middle of nowhere in Pacific. Also to support communication with Soviet space objects - MIR station, Soyuz spaceships etc., when the coverage from on ground stations is poor it could go to any place in ocean and stay there linking Earth with space. It has 75 antennas, including two huge 25 m sat dishes. It could support itself autonomously in ocean for over than 120 days. Main Ocean was the Atlantic Ocean. Let's see more:

Lugansk 2016: Around the War Torn City

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As we examined LPR capital in the past four parts, now we will go through the far outskirts of distant suburbs and immediate surroundings. There are also a quite traditional attractions like Slavyanoserbskaya manor in Aleksandrovskoe or memorial on the sharp tomb, there is an Aviation Museum under the open sky, that impresses not only with

exhibits but with many signs of war on them, and there is finally a lot of traces of town abortive siege by Ukrainian army in the summer of 2014, whether it is a destroyed airport or abandoned positions near from the unattainable happiness. This post is quite grim - but it is the last about traces of the war in this series.

Donetsk. The ruined Airport

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Here is the place in Donetsk where only the war remains. It is a ruined Donetsk Airport. A traveller went there and see his pictures and words about this place: I must say right away that though we aren't hippies, there were five of us who went to the airport. Three of us were Russian

citizens, and two of us were the citizens of the NATO countries - Poland and Latvia; two of us (myself and the Pole) had accreditations of "civilian" journalists without the right to visit the combat zone, and only one person from our team was not a guest in the DPR.

Ukrainian Orchestra Playing Game of Thrones Theme inside of a Steel Mill

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In Mariupol, Ukraine an interesting concert has taken place. A musician collective known as Lening Chamber Orchestra has played a composition of their choice inside one of the huge rooms of Mariupol Steel Production Plant. The piece they

played was the theme from "Game of Thrones". It looked pretty interesting with flames of fire of real steel being produced bursting in the background and lighting their faces as they played. You can see it yourself on this video.

Ukrainian “anti-terrorist operation” museum in Dnepropetrovsk

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Ukrainian city Dnepropetrovsk hosts a "museum for counter terrorist operation" - by this name in Ukraine goes the recent war they were

having in 2014-2015. Officially, the war is not over yet, however museum is intact already. Take a look on some photos here.

Weird Ukrainian tanks and armored vehicles

Funny, Transport, Ukraine

Please take a look at a selection of totally unique tanks and armored vehicles of Ukrainian army. During the latest conflict that took place

recently there, the army of this country started getting those weird vehicles for some reason. Take a look pretty unique and cool.

Military Parade in Donetsk, 2016

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Speaking about parades, here is

military parade from Donetsk-2016.

Russian Photographer Goes inside Chernobyl Reactor in 1990

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These days some in the media are commemorating the Chernobyl incident, or as they call it in Russia, "The Chernobyl Catastrophe". The reason is because it happened exactly thirty years ago, in April 1986. So we decided to post something too. We posted the best spooky

shots we could get our hands on. The story is as follows. Just four years after the incident, in the year 1990, a Russian photographer went right inside the destroyed reactor building, the most dangerous place in Chernobyl, and took those photos. Scary.