Interesting And Rare Vintage Photos

2016/12/18

Coat of arms of the USSR. Made of metal drills. Mechanical Plant named in honor of M.I. Kalinin, Moscow, 1927.


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Employees of the Moscow Research Institute sorting cabbage vegetable base, 1982.

Soviet soldiers and an unknown civilian move a huge eagle that hung above the entrance of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945.

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Interesting And Rare Vintage Photos

2016/12/18

Coat of arms of the USSR. Made of metal drills. Mechanical Plant named in honor of M.I. Kalinin, Moscow, 1927.


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Employees of the Moscow Research Institute sorting cabbage vegetable base, 1982.

Soviet soldiers and an unknown civilian move a huge eagle that hung above the entrance of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945.

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Production of Il-96-300 and AN-148.

2016/12/18

From "Flying tank" to board №1. In the shops of the Voronezh aircraft factory several legendary aircrafts were produced for 85 years of its history. During the war - the famous Il-2 (the designers called it "Flying Tank"). At the end of 1960-s - the world's first supersonic passenger airliner Tu-144. Today the plant produces the aircraft IL-96, AN-148, as well as individual units for SSJ 100 and MS-21 aircraft. Work on transport aircraft IL-112 is resumed. Voronezh Aircraft Manufacturing Company (VAMC) produces the main Russian aircraft - a presidential Il-96, better known as the board №1.

The decision about the organization of the plant made in 1929. Before 1966, the plant had only numbered titles: firstly №18, then №64. During the war, production lines were evacuated to Kuibyshev (now - Samara), after the Victory factory in Voronezh was actually rebuilt.


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Voronezh aircraft factory over the years of its history produced such planes as the ANT-25 (Chkalov and Gromov flied over the North Pole to the US on them), the legendary Il-2, bomber Tu-16, passenger Il-86 and the first in the world supersonic Tu-144.

VAMC - the country's only producer of long-haul wide-body passenger aircraft IL-96-300. Created in DB named in honor of Ilyushin with the direct participation of the VAMC prototype took off to the skies for the first time on September 28, 1988. The flight lasted 40 minutes.

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Production of Il-96-300 and AN-148.

2016/12/18

From "Flying tank" to board №1. In the shops of the Voronezh aircraft factory several legendary aircrafts were produced for 85 years of its history. During the war - the famous Il-2 (the designers called it "Flying Tank"). At the end of 1960-s - the world's first supersonic passenger airliner Tu-144. Today the plant produces the aircraft IL-96, AN-148, as well as individual units for SSJ 100 and MS-21 aircraft. Work on transport aircraft IL-112 is resumed. Voronezh Aircraft Manufacturing Company (VAMC) produces the main Russian aircraft - a presidential Il-96, better known as the board №1.

The decision about the organization of the plant made in 1929. Before 1966, the plant had only numbered titles: firstly №18, then №64. During the war, production lines were evacuated to Kuibyshev (now - Samara), after the Victory factory in Voronezh was actually rebuilt.


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Voronezh aircraft factory over the years of its history produced such planes as the ANT-25 (Chkalov and Gromov flied over the North Pole to the US on them), the legendary Il-2, bomber Tu-16, passenger Il-86 and the first in the world supersonic Tu-144.

VAMC - the country's only producer of long-haul wide-body passenger aircraft IL-96-300. Created in DB named in honor of Ilyushin with the direct participation of the VAMC prototype took off to the skies for the first time on September 28, 1988. The flight lasted 40 minutes.

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In Moscow They Restored the Soviet Unique All-terrain Vehicle

2016/12/16

One of the copies of the car "Blue Bird", developed for searching of landed astronauts was fully restored. SUV in the photo - it's a legendary "Blue Bird", a unique triaxle floating SUV, designed for search and evacuation of landed spacecraft crews. To rescue space explorers, these cars have taught to swim, cut trees, to overcome the absolute off-road ... Besides "Blue Bird" is not just an all-terrain vehicle, but the whole complex, which includes screw-propelled vehicle.


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There was released about three dozen usual (if that adjective is applicable to such a machine) "Blue Birds" and this particular example  - is a modified version of the 150-strong fiberglass triaxle, created before the breakdown of the USSR on behalf of the interdepartmental commission. As the portal says "Special vehicles and commercial vehicles," of such modernized machines "was made less than the fingers on one hand."

Passenger ZIL-49065 is in full working order. Its recovery was made by "MSTS6 AMOSIL" LLC, which recently got the famous "Machine-assembly department № 6", which made government limousines and ZIL cabriolet.

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