We’ve also told about weird Russian playgrounds. For example, the steel style children playground or this one with fearful monsters.
But here are some more shots.
This one, in Donetsk, is somehow related with Sigmund Freud.
Russian folklore in Steven King horror style. Moscow.
Cement Bee (not a bumble bee). Moscow.
Hedgehog-terminator in Eysk city. I’ll be back!
Ukrainian monsters.
We should notice, that nowadays they look much better.
But what is that??? An alien?
Some more Moscow monsters.
The THING making THAT on a tree.
God save me!!!
Two maniacal looking heads.
Those are also from Moscow. Hey, what are they doing?
Then follow some sadistic installations from St. Petersburg:
The bear without head.
And the playground in sado-masochistic style.
Unidentified creature in Eburg city.
The next one is called “Please, don’t kill me!”
Some graffiti in Ilyichevsk.
Lomonosov monsters:
Blood thirsty owl.
Drunk bear.
Some assassin killing a goose.
The main embellishment of some park.
The next one is indescribable.
Some brutal sculptures in Novogireevo (Moscow).
And here are some zombies!
Zombie parrot.
Zombie monkey (skeleton).
Looks like the bird of death killed them.
This amusing hedgehog watches how his friends rape the playground.
Sculptural composition “We came for peace”.
And this is the wall of some narcological dispensary in Penza city.
Next come the malicious dwarfs-mutants:
Siamese twins.
Probably a dwarf-scientist.
And dancing dwarf-pervert. Come to play in our playground.
Some mysterious lithographic stone.
This giraffe with soil-pipe between legs is frightened of the furious extraterrestrial mutant.
Wooden vampire that sucks blood.
Ancient stone-cyborg in Kostroma.
Vicious gnome.
Another shot.
This one is called “The Hell Ride”.
To kill and destroy (Krasnogorsk).
Happy New Year, kids, and watch out!
Doctor “Death” in Moscow.
And those are from Dnepropetrovsk:
This mushroom is frightened of the mad doctor, that wants to operate on the pregnant wolf.
And this dog with crutch is already in blood.
Going out of his mind hippopotamus.
Crazy crow.
One more scared animal.
And the pink elephant.
Headless dragon.
Evil clown in Moscow.
And two monsters.
Wooden freaks in Dnepropetrovsk.
One more soviet robot killer.
Alligator in Kuskovo.
Mutant in Sochi.
Dragon with three heads in St. Petersburg.
And children of Tula have a good time near this.
This Stonehenge alike installation also stands near Tula.
Some ancient warrior. Now his shield is used as a bulletin board.
Squirrel in ambush and two stunned bears.
Dead girl.
Some extraterrestrial monsters cannibals in the Ukraine.
Originally it was Cheburashka, the famous Russian toy.
And this should be Kolobok, Russian folk hero.
And this is another Soviet folk hero, doctor Aibolit.
More mutants in St. Petersburg.
Some psychedelic art.
Mushroom in Vladivostok.
Kindergarten in Lipetsk:
Some more colored monsters in Almaty.
More psychedelic art.
And this space alien stands in Moscow.
Pig in nirvana (Chelyabinsk).
So come to play with your children! You are always welcome and don’t be afraid!
All the photos were posted in Russian community “Detskiy Dvor” devoted to strange sculptures on the playgrounds.
Translated and compiled by KKJ
Everybody’s welcome to participate in this, I would say, kinda “social” survey.
If you grow up around this kind of playgrounds, you wont fear anything later on..
Here we go again! Another “weird” posting.
Someone tell the blogger the meaning of the word “weird”.
weird (wîrd)
adj., weird·er, weird·est.
1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
2. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
3. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
1. a. Fate; destiny.
b. One’s assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil.
2. often Weird Greek & Roman Mythology. One of the Fates.
tr. & intr.v., weird·ed, weird·ing, weirds.
Dude, stop complaining about words used too frequently for your taste! It’s that simple – if you don’t like it, don’t read it.
I myself feel pretty fortunate about the fact ‘kolobkov’ knows more English than I know Russian. If it wasn’t for that, I’d be looking at a cyrilEnglish than I know Russian. If it wasn’t for that, I’d be looking at a cyrillic puzzle which, even if I knew how to transcribe it into Latin letters, still couldn’t translate into my native language.
Thanks to Dora the Explorer, we now know what ‘weird’ really means. If you pick #2, alternative 2, kolobkov’s sentence would have been “We’ve also told about strange Russian playgrounds”. The only error I can see is a missing ‘you’ between ‘told’ and ‘about’. Apart from that, I think it comes pretty close to his intention.
As the definition above supposedly came from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, you might want to book a single plane ticket to the next convention to tell ’em all what ‘weird’ really means. Maybe we’re all lucky and you get lost in the swamps or anything.lic puzzle which, even if I knew how to transcribe it into Latin letters, still couldn’t translate into my native language.
Thanks to Dora the Explorer, we now know what ‘weird’ really means. If you pick #2, alternative 2, kolobkov’s sentence would have been “We’ve also told about strange Russian playgrounds”. The only error I can see is a missing ‘you’ between ‘told’ and ‘about’. Apart from that, I think it comes pretty close to his intention.
As the definition above supposedly came from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, you might want to book a single plane ticket to the next convention to tell ’em all what ‘weird’ really means. Maybe we’re all lucky and you get lost in the swamps or anything.
Its like a Stephen King novel
You’ve outdone yourself this time, thank you!
Very weird, at least five nightmares there!
The 3rd from last was in my hometown in Wyoming, lol it’s funny that other countries would use it. I thought it was more of a caterpillar instead of an alien tho.
The captions aren’t neccessary.
Because…
I enjoyed both the captions and the delightful photos. It’s conforting to see ‘666’ painted on the big telephone as well, that’s my favorite grafiti.
My goodness… things that are supposed to be cute often come out terrifying, but that clown sculpture is in a league of its own.
the “mysterious lithographic stone” is covered in assorted neo-nazi and racist symbols
Number 30 is by far the best and the sickest of them all. The sculptor clearly paid attention to details (and I’m not talking about the coconuts, or the rocket, or the penetration, or the fascinated baby bears). 10 out of 10.
i remeber these things in the playgrounds, actually they never seemed threatening to me when i was a kid. it was actually quite fun to hit the figures and climb them.
better than boring, plastic, generic playgrounds.
hooray for Russian playgrounds!!!! URAAAA!
These are great! Not weird or scary or anything. Used to play with these when i was a child.
Make fun of that spread-legged thing all you want, but it actually looks pretty awesome.
The first one OWNS modern art hard, its that badass and artsy
No wonder the Russians are so weird. They were tortured as poor innocent children!!!
Some of these are not bad, while others are God awful. The first picture of the slide was kinda creepy, but it is what it is
I find them awesome. Probably most of the are really badly repainted with acrilic paint, but the wood carving figures are impressive. I’d steal them if I could, cause the problem is wood figures are simply rotting in the open air, which is what’s giving the creepy look on most of them. And yeah, some others are just weird. But I still find most of them lovely and truly sad they aren’t going to last long.
If someone has more info about these, please email me sabinabonita@hotmail.com
Thank god SOMEONE noticed that many of the figures are wonderful, beautiful artworks, not terribly unlike American “Outsider”, “Naive”, and “Folk Art” assemblages and sculptures. I bet, when new and not re-painted by vandals [or untalented park employees], many of the carvings were incredibly stunning–some brilliant–pieces of art. If I had the money, I’d be flying to Russia to hunt down some of the artists and try to buy their works.
So glad you understand art, and don’t label true art as “weird”.
The playgrounds are vastly better than the horrendous pre-fab “playlands” at McDonald’s and Burger King. THOSE structures are weird—and UGLY.
Lemurleap / Muchamp / Billy-Twotoes
Отличные скульптуры, сделанные когда-то людьми с надеждой в прекрасное будущее и любовью!
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Can you show american kids playgrounds?
If it exist of course.
Because you ficking children sitting at home with gun and afraid.
Nice to see ignorance overseas in Russia and at home here in U.S. Oh, and to the comments in Russian, don’t think you’re so clever, Polyglot 3000 a$$holes… Stup1d fcukers…
Furthermore, this website rocks, nice page, Russian playgrounds really are weird as fcuk…