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…
Two guys from Russia decided to go on a 1300km (800 mile) bike trip. They started their adventure in Volgograd, and on their way they visited Astrakhan, Elista, and Stavropol. The entire journey took them 18 days to complete. Thankfully they brought a really good camera along, so here are pictures they took along the way. (If you happened to like Russia through the eyes of a cyclist, then you should definitely check out Russia through the eyes of an airline pilot)…
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Beach Volleyball tournament was recently held in Moscow, here are few pictures form the event…
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We have showed you the 2007 Miss Russia Beauty Pageant, and the Miss Russia Finals, as well as Miss DIM-2007. Now take a look at the pictures from this year’s competition…
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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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We have recently showed you what Russia looks like from a helicopter. You’ve also seen what Moscow, and what St. Petersburg look like from the air. Now here are more pictures of Russian nature, & yes you’ve guessed it - these are taken from a helicopter as well…
We have already shown you how the Russian Border Guards celebrated their 90th birthday. Now take a look at how the Russian Airborne Troops did it. On August 2nd, 2008 Russian Airborne Troops had celebrated their 78th birthday. When it comes to celebration itself, it was actually very similar to the one Border Guards had. On this day former Airborne Troopers get out on city streets all over Russia where they meet with their old friends to drink, sing, and of course swim in local fountains!!!
We had recently shown you what Moscow looks like from a helicopter, here is what it looks like at night…
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Here are pictures of street break dancers from Habarovsk…
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Here are pictures of the amazing sand creations that were displayed at the world sand sculpture competition that currently takes place in Moscow…
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…
