One guy flew from Almati to Kiev on one Ukrainian carrier, had decided to bring a camera with inside a plane. What he found inside was a plane held together by duck tape…
We had already shown you a big foot based on the GAZ Gazel car here, now it’s a bigfoot which is based on OKA, one of the smallest cars on the Russian market which is still being produced today…
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Here are very interesting pictures taken from the ultralight trike by a guy who flew in it as a passanger. In Russia one flight costs around 30$, and interestingly enough they land and take off right from the public road!!!
Soviet’s Tsar Bomb was the largest nuclear weapon ever constructed or detonated. It was detonated at 4000 m altitude the 30th of October 1961 at Mityushikha Bay test range, Novaya Zemlya Island. It had a yield of 50 Megatons. It contained equivalent of 58 million tons of TNT or 10 times the number of all explosives used in WWII…
All of these pictures of Moscow were taken from 215-235 meters above ground…
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In honor of the 70th anniversary of the aviation base in Kubinka, Russia. Two elite Russian aviation acrobatic demonsteration groups “The Russian Knights” flying SU-27 and “The Swifts” flying MIG-29, that are based there did a display, enjoy…
Over the past few years the scouts from the Kemerov city in Russia, make trips to the mountains throughout the year. The orphan kids who they take along with them seem to enjoy those trips the most, here are the pictures from their trips…
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Russian fishermen had all decided to park their cars on the ice before they went off fishing. Perhaps they had underestimated the ice’s strength a little bit, because here is a result of their “group ice parking”…
Turns out that the Weird Commercial of VAZ-2109 car we have shown couple of days ago was only the beginning. Way back from last year we already have shown you a video of VAZ-2108 still driving under its own power after a mega crash, now here is another video of VAZ-21099 (that’s a sedan/saloon model) driving down the public road while missing a side…
One guy in Russia had parked his car to go buy himself ciggarettes. When he returned he saw this… ”I’m so happy that i smoke”, was reportedly the first thing that the guy had said.
We already have a lot of material on the beloved classic soviet car Volga-21. You can look at the Volga Cabrio, and Volga Renaissance, as well as Volga Cayenne. The story behind history Volga-21 itself is pretty fascinating. The GAZ car factory which needed a replacement for their aged GAZ-20M Pobeda car, had used American cars as the prototypes for the Pobeda’s future successor. GAZ had ordered Ford Crestline, Chevy Bel-Air and Plymouth Savoy from America. They quickly singled out Ford Crestline out of the three. Since they couldn’t boldly copy Ford’s design, the team of Soviet designers set of to work to produce their version of the car. What you see below is the final product, a car design which is now included in most of the world’s educational car designer literature for it’s outstanding design. 
Volga-21
Here is a classic Soviet cartoon “Vocation in Buttermilk village” from 1980, it’s based on the children’s book “Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat” by Eduard Uspensky. This is the second part of this cartoon, it has one more episode which will be coming up soon…
