We already had shown you the Unexpected Tornado in Kazan, now here is another one. This time it happened in a Russian city called Surgut, which is an old Siberian city that had been founded in 1594. Since the city is far from a subtropical climate, it’s citizens are used to relatively cool summer temperatures, so of course they were very surprised to see a couple of tornadoes roll through their town…
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Everyone in Russia knows how corrupt the Russian traffic police is. They take bribes from car owners all the time, and often stop cars just to get money out of the driver. Isn’t it ironic then, that the statue of a traffic inspector that was recently built in Moscow, has him holding his hand over his pocket…
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We had recently posted a story about the IL-76’s bigger brother, IL-86 and it’s sometimes shockingly long take off rolls. As we had said then, the late take offs are often a direct outcome of short runaways, high temperatures, high humidity, and heavy cargo loads. Here is a video from Australia, which as you can see was another extremely close call for the Russian airplane and it’s crew…
There is one bad intersection in Moscow where accidents take place almost daily. While everyone knows about it, nothing seems to be done about the place. As a result cars keep crashing into eachother…
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These days, Russia has plenty of supercars on its non supercar friendly roads. Inevitably, some of them crash from time to time. We had shown you the Ferrari, as well as a Rolls-Royce accidents, here is a Bentley whose driver had lost control of the car after forgetting to break for the approaching speed bump. So the moral here is to drive safe, and to always slow down for speed bumps…
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We had recently shown you a Tornado in Kazan, and here is the flooding that the city had few days ago…
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
With no psychology background whatsoever we’ve been able to “correctly” determine that kids who play on Russian playgrounds usually end up doing this. Now take a look at more of these horrible creations, which will definitely create childhood memories, but you can guess for yourself what those memories will be…
Summer doesn’t just bring lots of sunshine, it also brings lots of rain, here are few pictures of a flooding that happened in Rostov on Don...
As the news come from Russia today, that a high ranking regional police boss went on trial for selling a police station building to some businessmen (!!!) and then spent the money on himself, we have this story. If the pictures you are about to see, were to come from Europe or America, the cop seen on them would definitely lose his job, and most likely end up in jail for accepting a bribe. Well, unfortunately these pictures come from Russia, where cops take bribes everywhere, all the time, this is just another example (remember this one???)…
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…
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”…
Few friends in Russia decided to drive to one’s vocation house to have some barbecue. When they began making it, dry grass had caught fire, and so did the man’s brand new Audi A4 2.0 with DTM package…
