Just a few photos of St. Petersburg by a local photographer, Alexandr Petrosyyan.
He used to sell them as large size printed posters, and I can see why.
Categories History, Photos, Russian army
The first exposition which showed the military condition of the Soviet Republic and the Red Army was organised in Moscow in the building of today's State Universal Store, and was opened by Vladimir Lenin on the 25 May 1919, following a parade in Red Square. On 23 December 1919 an order was issued for the formation of a museum-exposition "Life of the Red Army and Fleet" in the same location, whose purpose was to inform the public about the achievements of the
post-October Revolution Soviet Russia in military education, culture and political discipline in the Red Army and Navy. In 1951 the museum was renamed the Central Museum of the Soviet Army and in 1965 moved to its present location in a new, special building designed by architects N. Gaygarova and V. Barkhin. It was renamed once again, to the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR; it was given its present name in 1993.
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.
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.
