- Lenin likes to cruise in style…
Ekranoplanes were invented by the Soviet Union engineer Rastislav Alexeev. They were created during Cold War, to serve as fast moving strategic “aircrafts” and were based on Caspian as well as Black Sea. These ekranoplanes could fly only meters off the ground, but had an advantage of flying fast under the radars (up to 550km/h on MD-160), carrying heavy loads as well as missiles. The “Caspian Sea Monster” also went into the history for being able to lift and fly 544 tons of dry weight, which is more weight than the biggest airplane in the world AN-225 can fly with…
“Lun” with 6 anti-ship missiles…
Even though this video is in Russian, it’s still worth watching since it shows you the rare archive videos of these birds in action…
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We’ve already had shown you what the “Russian Cops Shouldn’t Be Driving“, which basically shows you all of the expensive rides that Russian police drive these days. It won’t come as a surprise to those of you who lived in the former USSR republics, that their police departments would often drive Russian made cars. Here is a gallery that shows you some of the infamous Russian cars, being used by the foreign police departments…
We’ve already told you about the new “Sukhoi Superjet 100 Regional Jet”. This plane had made it’s first flight in Komsomolks-na_Amure (eastern part of Russia) on May 19th, 2008. Who knows maybe these will be flying all over the world soon, just like the Brazilian Embraer-190, since the starting prices ($27 million) of these two birds are actually similar…
- here is how Superjet was created…
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We had shown you the “Unusual Subway Passenger” recently. Well, some time had passed and the protagonist of the story had grown up a bit, take a look at him now…
We have already told you about a famous chess player, and the leader of Russian opposition, Garry Kasparov. When making one of his speeches, in front of the media someone not very smart decided to make fun of the whole thing and fly a vibrator across the room. This link is available via Youtube, and probably will not be shown on the government controlled Russian TV stations, since the government sees Kasparov’s views and opinions as a big taboo, which after years of bias could destroy a “fragile & pro-government” minds of the Russian public. Ironically Kasparov had gotten the last laugh saying that “This is the face of the current Russian government”…
To get the idea of who Garry Kasparov is, you can take a look at one of his TV appearances before the 2008 Russian “Election”…
Can you spot something unusual in this picture??? These pictures come to us from Novorossiysk, where the guy had spotted something unusual in the bushes, and was brave enough to go and investigate…
We had recently shown you pictures from the “Theater Academy in St. Petersburg“, and here is something even more interesting. Russian Institute of Cinematography which was founded in 1919, and since the Soviet time is still abbreviated as “VGIK” (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography) remains to be the world’s oldest educational institution in Cinematography. VGIK was the foremost film school in the Soviet Union and remains one of the world’s most respected film institutions. Its alumni include many prominent actors and directors, many of them non-Russian (the school began accepting foreign students in the middle of the 20th century). It’s fair to say that getting into that institution is extremely hard, and therefore many students try to get in for years, some succeeded and then become struggling artists, very few become successful movie stars and directors and that explains the high number of applicants. Take a look at these nervous students, maybe some of them will become future movie stars…
We have already shown you the extensive collection of “Soviet Union Cars Part 1” and Part 2, as well as the showing you what the “Soviet Union Government Cars” had looked like, now it’s the turn of mighty cabriolets. Naturally people wouldn’t assume that Soviet Union with it’s harsh climate would even need to have a cabriolet, but nevertheless USSR had made quite a few interesting cabriolet designs, and here they are…
GAZ-14 Seagull Cabriolet
Usually when people hear about the “Swan Lake” they immediately assume that it is a famous ballet production by Pyotr Tchaikovskiy. In this gallery though, we are determined to show you what the actual swan lake in Russia looks like, sorry ballerina lovers…
