Here are the pictures of an abandoned railroad from somewhere in Russia. Looking at these pictures and seeing those rusty rails with an old locomotive standing on them, my guess is that this railroad comes to us from a pre-WWII era. Apparently this railroad is so remote that even after all these years you still can’t see evidence that the metal scrappers had looted the place. After over 750 stories we did on this site, this one fascinates me the most…
We had shown you plenty pictures of abandoned factories from Russia, and we even shown you the abandoned AZLK factory before, but here are more pictures for you. Russian car factory AZLK, abbreviation literally translating from Russian as “Lenin Communist Youth League Automobile Factory” was the maker of the Moskvich car brand. The factory which was founded in 1930, stayed around for decades until it filed for bankruptcy in 2002 and shut down all of its production. Today the factory remains idle and abandoned. Here are pictures of the factory…
We have shown you lots of museums lately. We covered a Russian Technology Museum, the outdoor car museum, aviation museum in Ulyanovsk, as well as aviation museum at night. Now take a lot at the Russian space museum…
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The infamous soda machines, that were so popular back in USSR, can still be found fully functional in some Russian cities…
Well, here are the soviet “rigid airframe airships” or blimps for short (even though blimps don’t really have a rigid airframe). Anyway, if you ignore these formalities, you can see that Soviets were actively developing and using their blimps…
The interesting story behind a blimp your looking at right now, was that on September 6th 1935, due to a strong wind gust this blimp was blown off the airbase even though it had 60 anchored cables tying it to the ground. Long story short, a captain of the ship (N.S. Gudovancev) that at the time was on the ground, was able to catch one of the supporting cables and climb on to the ship, when it was already 120 meters up in the air. In the cabin , there were 4 adults and 11 children. When the height was 800 meters, he was able to start the engines and 5 hours and 45 minutes he safely landed the blimp after the bad weather had passed. The captain who had saved the ship (as well as people) received an Order of Red Star.
Back in the USSR days, the Soviet car racing was pretty competitive on the world stage, especially when it came to rallying and circuit racing, here are the cars that made it possible…
The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its allies (Italy, Romania, Hungary) and the Soviet Union for the Soviet city of Stalingrad (today known as Volgograd). The battle took place between July 17, 1942 and February 2, 1943 as part of World War II. It is often considered the turning point of World War II in the European Theater and was arguably the bloodiest battle in human history, with combined casualties estimated above 1.5 million. The battle was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties on both sides. The battle is taken to include the German siege of Stalingrad, the battle inside the city, and the Soviet counter-offensive which eventually trapped and destroyed the German Sixth Army and other Axis forces around the city.
It has been the 65th anniversary since the battle took place three days ago, here is the gallery dedicated to all of those who participated and in many cases gave up their lives defending and fighting for Stalingrad building by building, this is as real as it gets… (I didn’t include pictures of hundreds of fallen soldiers on the streets of Stalingrad on purpose, i hope you understand why)
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info via wikipedia.org
You probably know already that we are very biased towards Russian Cops on this site, mainly because most of them have no honor and take bribes constantly, nevertheless we are probably even more biased towards the insanely expensive cars some of them get to drive. Here is a gallery that shows you what they used to drive back in USSR days, make sure to click on the link down in the gallery to see what some of them drive these days…
On May 17, 1984 a spark from a cigarette had led to an explosion on a naval base in Severomorsk. In a very short time, half of the fleet’s storage of strategic rockets, torpedoes and mines had been destroyed. Reportedly there were two injuries, as well as the huge panic on the streets of the city, that was caused by this fiery inferno…
Pictures from the private archive of the pilot of the Su-25 which he flew in the Afghanistan during its war with Russia…
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 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
Recently the news had surfaced that a Swiss pilot Yves Rossy a.k.a. “Fusion Man” had flown over the Alps using his jet powered wing. That’s all nice and everything, especially knowing that back in 1935 a Soviet engineer Mr. Sanfirov had himself designed and then tested his wing while parachuting out of an airplane, except that his wing didn’t cost $285,000 to build…
We already have shown you the “Happy Days in USSR“, “Life in the USSR“, “Positive Look at life in USSR part 1, and part 2“, “USSR Without Glamor“, and “USSR from Westerner’s Perspective“, now here is another gallery showing you what life behind the iron curtain had looked like…
Everyone wants to be environmentally friendly these days, but some people are clearly way too ambitious approaching this issue…
