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Each new thing is a little victory of a man over nature. Already primitive men learnt to turn stone, wood and bones into weapons helping to fight enemies, hunt, cook food. And

then people started creating things just for soul. We are going to tell about two masters who create things not similar to each other but united by aesthetic beauty.

Categories Culture, History, Russian People, Society

A few people know that just a few meters from the Kremlin near the Sofia Embarkment and behind the pompous buildings of the Russian Oil Giant, is a privately owned house. The house belongs to a one Mr. Victor Anatolevich Rozanov. One of Moscow's central home owners and the direct neighbour of the Kremlin.

Victor, a Professor with the Institute named after Baumann, is a 73 year old man who has lived in this house with his family since birth. He currently lives there with his wife. He briefly talks about his home, the history that sorrounds it, its odds among other twists and turns.

Categories Funny, Russian Art

Vareniki is popular food in Russia and this time they

inspired one guy to make this cool USB flash drive!

Categories Photos, Russian People, Technology

Once we had a story about some personal railway, no another Russian hero Leonid Murlyanchik has been building his metro alone since 1984. All materials

are bought for his retired fee. Construction is not over yet. By the way Leonid has all necessary documents and permits for this metro.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Photos, Russian People, Technology

Recently we had a Russian guy from Kazakhstan who has built a Rolls Royce Phantom at home out of old Mercedes car. Seems that this trend is getting stronger. Now meet a Hummer car clone. It can't be called full replica as it is more likely a Russian approach for the Big Agressive Car that can be used to climb mountains, to sow and plough thru the fields, to clean snow and mud and even to... drive underwater. "I have

only one oxygen mask that can be used while you are driving by the bottom of the lake/river. Once we were crossing some lake and the car got stuck in the bottom mud. My passenger didn't have a mask so he had to swim out to the surface to get some air and get back down to me to help releasing it.", says the owner. And yes, it can drive through the fire too! And now the pictures:

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Art, Technology

This days there is robot contest held in Moscow where different Russian self-made robots participate. It's

not clear what are the robots for, so the captions are just translated from what we had.

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Categories Funny, Photos, Technology

This project took 18 days from this Russian guy to accomplish. It all has began after he has watched that cartoon. An idea sparked thru his head "I want to build such thing to hold my computer stuff in it". A

solid-metal Wall-E computer case, each detail carefully cut from the metal sheets processed and put in place. Swiss precision homemade heavy metal WallE geeky step-by-step history is waiting us below:

Categories Funny, Photos, Technology

Russian drivers complain: "Mitsubishi Galant headlamps on cars coming from USA tend to break each every time there is a damp weather

and fog lamps on." But now seems they have found a great solution to this problem with the help of Russian pickles cans.

Categories Business, Economics, Funny, Photos, Society, Technology

When the recession reaches it's most coarse drastic form and the consumption would aim for zero point values, then all the Asian production would stop causing so much chaos there. That means for us that no cheap consumer electronics would be made. Still some middle-class proffesionals would need a

mobile computer to be carried with them on their job tasks, so anyone would be able to make a mobile computer like this. It's durable, lasting doesn't attract much attention and still it's a mobile computer! Some people in Russia has already started making some.

Categories Photos, Technology

It's all has began from small sketches he drafted every free minute he had.

Then it has got to life as a new self made custom car a few years later.

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