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How does young guys life change when they become Russian soldiers? They surely won't tell you all the story for some photo report.

However we have a chance to see how an ordinary Russian military unit, where ordinary soldiers serve, looks like. Welcome inside.

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Russian bloggers were invited to a Special Purpose Police Unit base in

Yekaterinburg where they got a chance to see this extreme profession from the

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Great wartime exhibition has recently been opened in the Central Museum of the Second World War. It is called "Engines of war". The visitors had the chance to see the

vehicles of the WW II perfectly restored and presented. The displays included Soviet vehicles and battle facilities as well as German, Canadian, American and others.

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Dog training center "Krasnaya zvezda" ("Red star") is the central school of military dog breeding and is the only special unit in the Russian Army of such kind. It was

founded in 1924 to conduct experiments on the dog usage during wartime. The experience of the "Red star" was successfully applied during the Second World War.

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In one of its inside courts, Minsk Wheeled Tractors plant has housed so-to-say “Jurassic park” where thousands of iron giants made back in the times of the Cold War dwell there thus far. Standing out in the open there gradually

peeling off and rusting they look quite sadly. It is hardly imaginable that a few decades back these rocket-o-saurs were taking aback anyone who saw them with their hugeness, roar of engines and impressive flotation.

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Hundreds of pieces of Russian army hardware is left on the small field right near to Chernobyl. All this machinery has participated in Chernobyl accident

liquidation and is radioactive from top to toe. Now it dies out under the open skies of deserted Chernobyl. You can get a Google Sat view of it too here.

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Russia exports a lot of armaments and military equipments to other countries. Some more countries would like to buy it too but their budgets can't afford them to do this, so Russian engineers have created a full set of fake weaponry for some countries. If you

are a military leader of some not-so-rich country you can be as cool as your more wealthy neighbors. It would be just like a real thing for the foreign satellites or spy-planes, just bring it to the place, inflate and you are done.

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So what else can you meet on streets of ex-USSR? For example in Moldova, the ex Soviet Moldavia, you can see

sometimes old jet fighters standing on a pedestrian lane. And passers-by don't express much interest in it.

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This is the video of one of the biggest Russian bombers TU-95. It can fly from Moscow to Cuba in Carribean and back without refueling, though in this video there is a scene of it being refueled right in the air. It

was the only bomber deployed by any country to use turbo-prop engines, which provided extraordinarily long endurance at speeds only slightly less than comparable turbojet-powered heavy bombers.

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This is Russian helicopter MI-24, but these particular are from Polish army. Poland during Soviet era was buying a lot of weapons from Soviet Union. In Russia pilots call it “The Crocodile” because some of it’s form

resemble some reptile according to their point of view. So this Polish pilots decided to go further and drew reptile eyes on their helicopters, so now the crocodile analogy can be seen even more precisely.

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