Tag: "Russia"
Moscow Bridge in Kiev
The bridge was opened for use in 1976 and still plays a crucial role in the life of the city and its infrastructure. It comprises three parts: cable bridges cross Dnepr as long as 816m (2677 feet), bridge across Desyonka river 732m (2400 feet) in length and a crossover 55m or 180 feet in length. [...]
Vintage polar bear photo
Astonishing photo taken in the late 70′s, showing a man feeding a polar bear and his cubs with milk in the north Russia border. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
This monument called Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa) was made for one of studios in VDNKH and first time displayed in Paris in 1937. There was hold a competition for the post of a chief architect and one of the famous Soviet architects at that time, V. I. Mukhina, won the contest. The [...]
KGB Museum in Russia
(“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. It was the descendant of earlier agencies. The Cheka was established in 1917 to investigate counterrevolution and sabotage. Its successor, the GPU (later OGPU), was the new Soviet Union’s first secret-police agency (1923); it also administered corrective labor camps and oversaw the [...]
Russian Jet Cabrio Flight
Those photos are real and were made during the filming of the Russian movie involving jet fighter stunts. In one episode they had to film the jet without a canopy, so rather to film it on the ground they decided to hire a high-class pilot to make a real flight without that glass thing. He [...]
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