Well in Russia they build playgrounds rather differently… I’m not sure how someone who has kids of their own could design something like this but these are some of the actual playgrounds that Russian youth has to play with, don’t blame the kids if they grow up to be mean…
via webpark.ru
February 20th, 2008 at 1:21 am
ewww
looks disgusting…
poor kinds who have to play with such bullshit
February 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
LMAOOO! i wanna go on those playgrounds. haha.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Care to explain the elephant reference? It appears twice and seems to be culturally acceptable. In western Europe and the Americas, Jonah evacuates his quarry through his blow hole - but I’ve never seen anything resembling the elephant in western mythology.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:30 pm
It’s much simpler than that, it is just an elephant, besides there were few famous Russian cartoons where Elephant was featured and played a big role…
June 11th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Is it just me, or did anybody else notice the Cthulhu figure closer to the top?
June 11th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Yep, but the girl doesn’t mind…
June 11th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Well obviously the creator of this gallery has no clue about Russian playgrounds and probably Russia as a whole because a person who knows the culture would not say that such places can be found there.
I am Russian and i can definitely claim that very few of the photos were shot in russia, actually a huge amount of them are from Europe or America. Those from Russia can be the bottom 6-7 images, but the ones with Cthulhu, skeletons, elephants and a dinosaur are 100% not from Russia - i see such things for the first time in my life.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Europe or America??? :-D!?!?! Some might be from former soviet republics, like 2, 3, or 8 from counting from top to bottom, but the rest seem very Russian to us.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
yo that yellow dude is in Prague which is not Russia. Saw it a few weeks ago up at the beer garden on ze hill
June 11th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
The alligator isn’t in Russia or a playground. It’s a piece of art. I saw it at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY a few years ago.
Also, half of these aren’t even that bad and aren’t playgrounds.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Let us kids have a say.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I think these are just what Britain needs to stop the bastard children becoming even bigger bastard children.
really though half of these are not in Russia, I can vouch for the yellow creature being in Prague, I’ve seen it with my own eyes too.
I think the poster has just gone to webpark.ru and found a bunch of pictures and assumed they were all Russian. To the poster’s defence, it does say Russian stereotypes at the top, and one general stereotype western people have of Russia is that it is dilapidated and a bit weird.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:38 am
The Cthulu figure isn’t at a playground, it’s a piece made by a very skilled leatherworker who I think is from Russia.
Yuliana - Russia is a pretty big country, just because you’ve never seen something doesn’t mean it’s not from there.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:48 am
The cthtulu one looks alot like the leather dragon backpacks/wolf masks that a Russian artist who’s name I forget makes. I remember spending a long period of time drooling over a very expensive one that I really wanted…
June 13th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
that Cthulu figure looks more like someone with a costume..
that freaky wizard thing in the bushes is trippy
June 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Wow Russian artist who’s name …I like much The Sculpture with skeletones to play at cards …kith and kin…
June 13th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Don’t be so quick to judge.
Most of those pictures aren’t even toys, they’re just art.
The fact is, you’re judging based off of false information.
Most of that stuff is based off of old Russian stories, stories that happen to be adorable.
As for the rest of them…
The children are perfectly fine with it.
Just because we spoil our children doesn’t mean that they have to spoil theirs.
June 14th, 2008 at 1:19 am
“Just because we spoil our children doesn’t mean that they have to spoil theirs…..”
Most American playgrounds are blandy bland. A huge amount of work has gone into these playgrounds (or sculptures). They are interesting and would stimulate kids imaginations.
June 14th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Fantasic collection.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
CTHUULU
June 16th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
man, i need to get out of the cubicle.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
fake
June 17th, 2008 at 5:19 am
of course, those playgrounds and structures/sculptures are full appreciated on a fat dose of LSD
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:02 am
This is just ignorant. Only a handful of those are playgrounds. The rest, as someone else said, is art. In most cases, they made the most of what they had and my kids would love it. You must be American if you think there’s something wrong with how Russian kids play. Things don’t need to be bigger, shinier and newer to be enjoyed. I bet a good proportion of American kids couldn’t find Russia on a map. How’s that for well adjusted?
June 24th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
This is comedy gold. I’m going to blog about this on my site and link to it. Thanks for posting! That Cthulhu statue was the best one!!!
July 1st, 2008 at 10:41 am
The eighth one (the yellow) is, as previously noted, in Prague. Notice the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn — the big one in Old Town Square that everyone adores so much — in the background and the graffiti on it. It’s in Letensky Sady near the beer garden. It also happens to be right across the street from my flat. Yay for former bloc countries! Prague is awesome for things like this…they’re trying hard to be a part of the west, but they’re clinging to a lot of things from their soviet past. There are even better examples not too far from there in the park at Stromovka.