This girl had to let little children to swing instead of her. She wouldn't look this
stupid then. Who knows maybe she will try it again - it made her laugh, too.
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Chirkei hydro power plant is situated on the Sulak river of Dagestan. It is the largest HPP in the North Caucasus, the highest arch dam of Russia. And probably it is also one of the most beautiful dams in the country. Its construction began in 1964 and
finished in 1978. The main structure of the HPP is the dam, of course, the beautiful arch 232,5 meters (763 ft) high and 338 meters (1109 ft) long. The width of the dam is from six (only six!) (19.7 ft) to thirty meters (98.4 ft)!
A citizen of Coloma, Ukraine, whose name is Alexey Gutsulyak, broke the record of staying naked in the snow. He lay in the snow for 1 hour 20 minutes which is twenty minutes more than the previous record set by the Japanese. According to the new
record-holder he meditates like Tibetan monks while being in snow, thinks about summer. It can become possible only upon a long training and quenching. The record claims to be included into the Guiness Book of World Records.
How is it like to sleep in a big bag filled with old blankets in winter? To wash once a week at best? To find home under the planking covered
with linoleum? To earn a living by sorting wastes? We are going to visit one landfill in Belarus and find answers to these questions.
Most of the Russian cities are ready for a cold season. But in some of them people are not sure if it
starts to snow or not. And the more sudden winter is the more ridiculous snow cleaning devices are...
We have seen a lot of weird stuff on the Russian roads. And we have got used to the fact that Russian car cams
never fail to deliver more weirdness. This video was taken the other day in the city of Nizhny Tagil.
Last week there started a new pilot project of Toyota Land Cruiser Prado manufacture. They plan to make up to twenty five thousand Japanese offroad cars a year. According to the workers of
the factory, the average time for each vehicle at any assembly line is about fifteen minutes. Serial production of the suvs in Vladivostok will be launched in February 2013.
The Russian Empire was the first country in the world which officially accepted armoured cars for service. It happened in 1908 when the Russian army
received ten armoured cars built by the French company Charron, Girardot et Voigt designed under the project of a Russian officer M. Nakashidze.
Russian grannies are rather inventive. They still remember the time of deficit, when one thing was often replaced by another, purpose of
which was often too far from how it was actually used. This granny did not get lost at the ice slide having no sled for her grandson.
One can see them almost in any street of Moscow. Breaking all the rules, having no certificates and permitting documents, putting
themselves at risk and having no reflective clothing, they are selling wash fluid used at very low temperatures by drivers.
