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A new meaning to the phrase "life on wheels" has found by Tatiana during her walk around a not very often used railway line. A few railway cars standing on the rails were re-equipped as homes with all the modern signs of making it a comfortable home - air

conditioning units, satellite TV dishes. Some cars have the additional wooden constructions built on the sides - you can see in the photo above the non-matching gray wooden huts linked to the train cars. Those are also parts of the houses.

Categories Photos, Russian army, Technology

The collapse of Russia’s arms industry in the 1990s really hurt the SU-34′s development, but it has recovered. A development journey that began with the aircraft’s maiden flight in 1990, as the T10V/SU-27IB, ended in 2010 with deliveries and fielding under a 5-year production contract, followed by a 2012 full rate production order. RIA Novosti put the plane’s mission simply: “The Su-34 is meant to deliver a

sufficiently large ordnance load to a predetermined area, hit the target accurately and take evasive action against pursuing enemy planes.” Other reports have gone further, stating that the plane is also meant to be able to handle enemy fighters in aerial combat. Given its base platform characteristics, it would likely match up well in the air against many of America’s “teen series” aircraft.

Categories History, Photos, Russian army

Exactly 15 years ago, the Russian army with around two hundred soldiers, marched over 600km across Serbia and entered Pristina, Kosovo to occupy the nearby airport "Slatina". They say this was the only airport around that was capable of receiving the heavy transport planes and NATO wanted to take control of it. However, Russian

commanders were said to be unhappy that most of the decisions in Kosovo and Serbia at time were made without consulting with them. They decided to bypass NATO and occupy a part of Kosovo by themselves, blocking NATO forces from using the vital airport and in this way control all the nearby region all by themselves.

Categories Photos, Russian Nature

Another series of photos of Kazakhstan from above. This time the helicopter with the photographer flew over the South-Eastern part of Kazakhstan capturing the colorful mountains, sometimes red, sometimes changing to white. "It makes me feel like I went to another planet", says the photographer. "Some of the landscapes look like

they are from Mars! It's a big pity that no tourist routes come here. I usually fly in military helicopters." Let's take a look. You might want to click on any of the photos for a larger sized view. via

Categories History, Science, Technology, Transport

When the first ever version of the Tu-144 supersonic airliner was conceived, they didn't build it all together in one factory. They built the fuselage in one place, inside Moscow city and then decided to move it to Zhukovski city where it could be supplemented with all other parts and systems. To

move such a thing out of the Moscow research center through the city streets they had to build specially-built trolleys that could negotiate the streets, as back in 1968, they didn't have a ready-made means of transportation for this task. These are a few photos of this event.

Categories Photos

Believe it or not, but for the last Russian Tsar's coronation - the day when he got into power - they decorated the whole of Moscow city's Kremlin with electric bulbs, just like people decorate their houses now for

Christmas. Seeing these photos of the Kremlin with all the holiday lights on at night, it's really hard to believe that they were taken as far back as 1896 - almost 120 years ago! Photos are inside.

Categories Photos, Russian People, Technology, Transport

Russian blogger Sergey went on an ice breaker journey through the Arctic. He says that there is a helicopter on board the vessel. It is a

Russian KA-32C copter and he took a trip on it around the ice breaking ship while deep into the ice of the Arctic. Photos are inside.

Categories Automotive, Russian People, Transport

A custom car mod agency in Novgorod came out with a car for use as a luxury wedding ride. They tried to make it look like a medieval coach, I can't say if they

succeeded in achieving the feel or not, but the car looks out of this world for sure. Some more photos of the interior and exterior are inside the post.

Categories Exclusive, Photos, Russian army, Technology

T-50 is a new jet being built in the Sukhoi factory. It made its first flight in 2010 and in 2013 they put it into production. This is one of the production jets, and it reportedly caught on fire today, June 10th, during a flight. An official reported that, quote: "while during the flight, first smoke appeared, and then fire broke

out above the right wing. This accident caused no casualties and the plane can be repaired. The aforementioned events should not affect the program and its completion". So here is one more photo of the fire aftermath and the new plane, which is still pretty rare. Photos are clickable for larger versions.

Categories Photos, Russian Nature

As the largest country in the world, Russia is inhabited by a significant proportion of the animals which live on the planet. There are more than 1550 species of vertebrate animals. However, the diversity of species of wildlife has significantly reduced, primarily due to humans. Many of the species have disappeared over the past two centuries. A lot of representatives of the Russian fauna can only be seen today in the pictures of encyclopedias. A large-horn deer inhabited the vast territory stretching from Ireland to North Africa. In Russia, the skeletons of this mammal are often

found in the Ryazan and Sverdlovsk regions, in the Republic of Crimea and the North Caucasus. Scientists suggest that the large-horn deer completely disappeared about 7.6 thousand years ago. This deer lived in open spaces because of the huge horns, which can reach a weight of 37 kilograms, and have a length of up to 4 meters. In the forest, such bulky horns could interfere with its ability to hide from enemies. Now scientists believe that the disappearance of this species of deer was a natural process due to climate change.

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