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How about paying a visit to Russian Space exploration museum? If it seems like a good idea then come inside for it. The Yuri Gagarin greats your in the hall and invites to see seventy more photos of what inside. This is the

world's first biological satellite, in which Russian dog "Laika" has made its first flight in 1957. It's of actual size on display. And here her colleague "Belka". And Belka's partner "Strelka".

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Another Russian fun to dress into the medieval Russian warriors, then build some castles of wood logs and play real time 3d strategies,

without using computers, but with real iron weapons. Some parties also use fire to burn the castle down and occupy it.

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I personally like those kind of artworks, when photos of one place now and then are carefully merged. We had sometime ago

brilliant set of St. Petersburg during the WW2 photos combined with present ones. Now alike photos from Kiev city.

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What you see here is obviously key. What differs this particular one from some other key is that with a turn of this key the most powerful machine built by human genius in our modern times was awaken to life. This is the key from Russian space rockets, thousand

tons monsters carrying tons of cargo weight to the Russian space station "MIR" which is sunk in pacific now. Such keys were a real artefact amongst engineers participating in the launches and there was a long line of those who wanted to

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That is Russia back from 1989 to 1993, the end of

Soviet Empire, the beginning of freedom.

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This is how the first Soviet Russian bulbs looked liked. They had the Stalin and Lenin half-face cut as a glower and were considered to be a very classy present - the first of the series were

presented to the delegates of Soviet parliament of 1935. Nowadays they are considered to be an awesome antique gadget and for sale in Moscow antique shops for around $2,000.

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Seems there is strange trend spreading across Russia Internet. It all has started after the lady from the photo above has posted her photo on Russian social network. She became popular very fast for this photo. Some people say because of her enormous bottom compared to face, some say just because of the look of her eyes, some are sure that just in overall this photo is cool. Now, hundreds of Russian ladies try to make a photo in such position, as you can see below. The call it "to make Vilena-style

photo" - Vilena that's the name of the first girl. By the way, this name has a Soviet origin. After the Communists took over in 1917 and their leader Lenin was a national hero many Russian young parents called their boys and girls after him using his initials and second name. Lenin's full name was "Vladimir Iliich Lenin" - so new boyish name appeared "VILen" and girlish one two: "VILena". There were also such names like "Vladlen" or "Vladlena" after "Vladimir Lenin".

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Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, first Russian cosmonaut, you probably know him. People from Latvia know him too, they say that during the Soviet Times Russian authorities wanted to rename Latvian capital city Riga after Yuri Gagarin to Gagarin city, but they didn't for some reason. So they decided to commemorate the glory of the hero in bit different way. They have made a monument of Gagarin, but

not just a monument. Yuri tragically died in plane accident during the test flights he participated in while on his service in Russian army in his young age. Latvian monument builders decided to imagine what if he didn't die how he could like at his 70s and built such a monument which tends to look how Yuri Gagarin could look in his old ages. You can see it below:

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This shot was one of the most famous shots made by Russian photographers during World War 2. It was made in the ruins of Stalingrad city - the place where the most heavy city battles took place. Some historians say that after those battles near Staliningrad the Nazi invasion of Russia broke down.

The monument itself depicts Russian children dancing around a crocodile, looking so unreal with the traces of bullets on the sculptures and the burning ruins on the background. Later, after the war the monument was rebuilt, even earlier than surrounding buildings.

Tallest Russian tower, Ostankino tower is being built

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The Ostankino tower, built in Moscow in 1967, was built for four years and after it was completed became the word's tallest man made structure. Also it was the world's first building exceeding 500m tall. It stayed the tallest structure in the world for 9 years, and for 42 more years as the tallest

structure in Europe. Those are photos of how it was built. It weights more than 32 thousand tons. It has two "enemies" - the Sun and win. Due to wind its top can fluctuate for 10 meters (33 feet) and due to Sun heating it from one side it can also move to 2.2m (6.6 feet).

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