This winter Russian Far East got anomalous hot weather – totally no snow – this caused the unseen before event – winter forest fires. Here is a video from train going thru one of such regions. Over 13,000 firefighters try to extinguish those fires now.
During a drill military planes and jets were landing on a highway near Khabarovsk (in Russia’s Far East). A traffic jam formed but some drivers said it was worth it. Video:
This Dedushka (grandad, as opposed to “Babushka” – grandmother) lives in Khabarovsk and is considered to be a local landmark for dressing in style each day while he is cruising through this Far Eastern Russian city. After surviving cancer he decided that life is too short to waste and started doing whatever he liked, including wearing clothes that appealed to him and were not just a social norm. Let’s take a look at a few of his other looks.
Illegal hunters have shot down the bear mom of those cubs so now they were left with those women in the Khabarovsk non-commercial veterinary activists center. “Those are not our first bear cubs. Each spring traditionally we get the bear cubs left without their moms because of the illegal hunt”. There are some more photos inside:
Khabarovsk city is near the Chinese border, and yesterday it experienced one of the strongest snowfalls in its history, with streets and roads and everything covered with up to two meters of snow! Just see the pics.
This post is about the Bolonsky reserve and one architect who willingly chose life in subhuman conditions. Vladimir maintains order in his portable cabin, standing lonely at spring Muchien, in the Khabarovsk region, Russia. Last year this territory was completely flooded, the aftermath is still visible everywhere.
How does natural gas go from fields in the far eastern island Sakhalin to the system of gas pipeline ” Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok “?
The deposits of the Sakhalin shelf are main resource base.The Kirinskoye field has reserves at about 162.5 billion cubic meters of gas and 19.1 million tons of gas condensate . The system of gas transportation had started to work in October 2013 when the first portion of the test gas was injected to the gas pipeline system ” Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok .” The projected level of gas production is 5.5 billion cubic meters per year.
The peculiarity of this field is under water. All equipment is located at the bottom at a depth of 90 meters. In Russian practice this method of extraction is used for the first time . Now let’s follow the path of the gas from the field to the end user.
On the first photo you see the complex on the beach. A pipe length which streched into the Okhotsk Sea is 29 kilometers.
Khabarovsk airport, Russia, 1950-80s. Pictures from the flight catering shop that had been working since 1961. The images themselves are dated 1964.
Just recently the Soviet “Antei” became the precious guest in Khabarovsk, Russia. In 2009 there were only two flying units of An-22 in the world. So this plane can really be seen in the air very seldom today. Powered by four turboprop engines each driving a pair of contra-rotating propellers, the design was the first Soviet wide-body aircraft and remains the world’s largest turboprop-powered aircraft to date. Indeed, the pictures can’t convey this but it is huge. The plane can transport 700 passengers!
We are in the Primorye region of Russia to see new residential units of Russian internal forces there. They refused to stay in tents and replaced them with modular barracks. One barrack may accomodate up to 50 people. It is provided with electric heating, a canteen and an ammunition storage facility. In Russia only one training range under Khabarovsk can boast facilities like this.