We have covered a lot of abandoned stuff in the past, now we add an abandoned movie theater to the list…
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Strollers might be very underrated, but they shouldn’t be since majority of us had taken a trip in one, here is what the Soviet strollers had looked like…
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We already had an interesting gallery that showed you how Moscow had been transformed in the 20th century, now here are few more pictures that show you how the Soviet Moscow had changed over the years…
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It’s interesting how an abandoned and thus unmaintained train station in Abhazia, still looks much better than the not so abandoned and slightly maintained train stations of New York City…
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Here is a collection of Russian Imperial, as well as Soviet advertisements…
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While the trolley buses are still quite popular in Russia today, not many people know that back in the USSR days, there were also the trolley trucks…
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Once upon a time, there was a flooding in the Soviet Moscow, here are few pictures showing you the extent of that flood…
We already did many galleries about what life used to look like in the USSR; we 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 was like…
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We had shown you what St. Petersburg looked like in 1970s, as well as what it looks like today. Now take a look at what the cultural capital of Russia had looked like in the 19th century…
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We had shown you what Moscow looked like in 1950s, in 1955, as well as 1980s. Now take a look at what the capital of Russia had looked like between 1966 and 1971…
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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.
