Moscow Motor show is in town. So even though some of the cars that you’ll see here, were already shown to you in the New York Auto Show 2008 post, there were still a good number of new European market cars. This year’s highlight was the new Lada C-cross concept premier, and of course looking at these pictures, it’s impossible to ignore all of the beautiful models that tried to make some not so appealing cars, seem more appealing..
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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Here is second post of Altai mountains that are located in central Asia along the border between Russia and Mongolia. The pictures come from a very talented photographer who took a summer trip through these gorgeous mountains…
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This is gallery of portraits which feature face expressions of common Russian people. They live far from big cities, and as you’ll see for yourself, they are quite different from these folks…
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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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Here are pictures from a display of Russian cavalry, that were sent in to us by Aleksey. Very impressive stuff indeed, yet we still can’t understand what they are trying to prove in the first picture…
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Here are the incredible pictures from a New Afon Cave (Novoafonskaya cave) from Abkhazia. This cave is one of the largest and deepest caves in the world…
Here is another post to our Russian Nature section. Altai mountains are located in central Asia along the border between Russia and Mongolia. Here are pictures of one very talented photographer who took a summer trip through these gorgeous mountains…
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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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We showed you the Russian Nuclear Icebreakers, now take a look at Russian nuclear submarines…
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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…
Here is the apartment of one of the creators of the amazing Tupolev Tu-154 airplane model for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, (which you can download for free here). As you can see, he modeled a cockpit of a real Tupolev Tu-154 in his bedroom!!! All of the parts were taken from retired planes and then integraded with the Flight Simulator software. By the way, the guy behind this ambitious project wants to expand the cockpit so it can include more working parts from a real aircraft…
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Here is the Russian Olympic team, taking pictures on Red Square right before they were flown to Beijing…
