How did Soviet people see the future? This is clearly shown by the old magazine “Technologies to the youth” that first was issued in the USSR in 1933. The authors imagined underground cities, nuclear aicrafts, elevators to the bottom of the sea and many other cool things. Some of their predictions actually came true.
Each issue of the magazine had a special section “Window to the Future” where authors tried to foresee the imahe of the 21st century. We want to show you the most curious ideas printed on the pages of the earliest issues (up to the 1970s) of the Soviet magazine.

Underground cities
Elevators to come down to the bottom of the see
Monophone – the way they saw an automatic responding machine back then.
Planes shaped like rockets
Aicrafts are dropping little bombs that turn up and fertalize the soil!
Impulse gun
Invisible magnetic field that damages tanks
“Polar ball” housing for the Arctic. If the ice melts, the ball won’t drown.
Swimming snowmobile to travel along the Arctic
Half submarine, for the Arctic waters again
Electrocraft – the vehilce that flies with help of electromagnetic waves
Wind turbine airship
Jet stratoglider for stratosphere research
Locomotive, car and ship equipped with the improved steam engine on the spiral turbine
Vehicle similar to an aircraft powered by trolley wires
Nuclear aicraft that can remain in the air for months
Artificial satellite of the planet
Orbital station
First images of the base located on the Moon П
Monorail train
Mountain city for 55 million people and Tower city for 24 thousand people
Artificial snow slopes in August
Robots controlled by men
Rock climbing robot
Fast wing-car
Railless trains
Shoes of swiftness from the future