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Categories Culture, History, Russian Art, Russian People

Arkady A. Plastov was a recognized artist of the USSR, winner of Lenin and Stalin Prizes. He depicted life in Soviet villages and it never looked

gloomy, quite on the contrary, his pictures were rather bright and colorful, people depicted looked happy either at work or at a holiday table.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian People, Society

Now we are going to see some works of a prominent photojournalist and photographer Arkady

Shaikhet. All the pictures presented below were taken in the period of 1925-1930.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Science, Technology

During the first eight days of this new year one could get into many museums of Moscow absolutely for free. It was a

wonderful present for the citizens of the city. The museum of cosmonautics was one of those hospitable museums.

Categories Business, History, Photos, Technology

Textile mills are usually cool and beautiful, even abandoned ones. This one was built long ago, before the

revolution, and got abandoned in the beginning of the 2000s. We are going to walk about its rooms and shops.

Categories Exclusive, History, Photos, Technology

The author of these pictures does not give any information where he took them and how he managed to do this. But is it really important? Just try to imagine what it was like to

work at such place, far from reality and sunlight, to listen to the neverending sounds of this equipment, see these dull and gloomy corridors every single day...

Categories History, Law, Photos, Society

These are the pictures of what has remained from the Soviet Gulag. General Directorate of the camps and detention facilities (Gulag) was a division of the NKVD, Soviet Police and the USSR

Ministry of Justice. It used to be the place for mass forced imprisonment and detention in 1934-1960. Now you can see how it looks today and how it looked when it was working.

Categories History, Photos, Russian People, Society

It is a bit sad photo report about the end of the world USSR. The pictures were taken in 1990-1991

by photographers George Steinmetz, Peter Turnley who visited the country at that hard time.

Categories Exclusive, History, Photos, Science, Technology

When you travel to abandoned and acting institutes, plants, shelters, much depends on luck. Sometimes such visits end in loss only: penalties and waste of time. Sometimes you expect to see cool scientific objects but

see only boring offices, and instead of huge interesting plants you come to waste grounds. But sometimes such trips are quite successful. This trip to one scientific research institute was quite a luck.