We are about to fly on a Mi-8 helicopter over Saint-Petersburg now to see the city as a huge carpet consisting of small elements.
Yes, it’s like on the palm!
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Saint Petersburg: As If On the Palm
2013/06/30
Mountaneering Caucasus of the 70s
2013/06/30
Some pictures of those who were climbing the Caucasian mountains in the 1970s.
Dreams in the mountains must be special.
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Unusual Church That Was Used As Boiler House And Pub
2013/06/30
Eighty kilometers away from Kharkiv, Ukraine, there is a church of very unusual architecture which was built in 1913 by one Ukrainian sugar tycoon. At that time sugar was as precious as oil today so the tycoon built not only the church but also a park of 48 hectares which surrounds it.
In the Soviet time the church was repurposed in many different ways: it was used as a pub, coal storage, even as a boiler room! While the park was used as … a sanatorium for TB patients!
According to one of the versions the tycoon saw a similar church on the seashore of Nice and called an architect to build an identical one in the Kharkiv region. According to another version Nice had never had such a church.
The reliable version says that the construction was held since 1911 to 1913 by an architect A. M. Rukhlyadev. It was decorated by beautiful stone carved images made by a famous sculptor A. Matveev.
The church had beautiful bright murals inside which were ruthlessly destroyed in the years of communism.
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Underground Submarine Base of the Cold War
2013/06/30
This post is about one of the most grandiose structures of the Cold war built in the middle of the XXth century – the underground complex for submarines repair in Balaklava, Ukraine. It consists of of the repair base itself and a central base for nuclear weapons storage. For more than forty years the complex had been ready for self-sufficient existance and could accomodate all the population of Balaklava. However when Ukraine separated from the USSR they gave up on the complex, it became simply unneeded. In the period from 1993 to 2003 it was being plundered, its stuctures – dismantled. In 2004 a part of complex turned into a museum but nobody had restored it for that.
Museum visitors can see a zone around the channel which goes through the mountain, some shops and the armoury where torpedoes and nuclear warheads were kept. Out of the exposition are the bigger part of the channel, mine and torpedo part, generating station with a fuel storage unit and a system of unfinished adits.
The nature itself made quiet Balaklava an ideal place to hide the war fleet. The narrow curved strait only 200-400 m wide protects the harbor not only from storms but from prying eyes – from the open sea side it is not visible from any angle. Its depth up to 17 m allows submarines to enter the harbor submerged to the very shelter.
Balaklava was used as an ideal harbor in ancient times as well – by Romans and Tauris, in the Middle Ages – by Genoese, Ottomans and Cossacks. Today it is a popular Ukrainian resort – it is often visited by presidents of Russia and Ukraine, besides, Balaklava often meets foreign ships.
Mountain Tavros, which has a secret object inside, is composed of solid marble-like limestone, the thickness of the rock over the underground premises reaches 126 meters. So the structure has the first anti-nuclear category.
The underground complex with total square of 15 000 m2 was approved in 1947 by Stalin himself. In 1953 its main part started to be built – hydraulic structure 825.
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Vacations In the Soviet Crimea
2013/06/30
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Trial For the Maroon Beret
2013/06/30
Right now you are going to see how a maroon beret can be obtained, what trial a man has to overcome to deserve it. By the way, maroon berets do not give any privileges like higher salary or promotion. It’s just a mark of distinction for soldiers of special units. This year in the Karaganda region only 8 out of 65 have successfully passed the test.
There are only 124 maroon berets in Kazakhstan (those who still serve).
Candidates are acoompanied by those who got berets last year. This year they should confirm their skills. They are taking this exam light-handed, they have to follow candidates, make sure they do everything correctly.
All the distance is divided into stages – 5-10 km each. Every stage is followed by 3-5 minutes rest. The earlier you come the more rest you have.
Wading across the river, the weapons are to be saved dry.
Those who already have maroon berets keep saying to the candidates: “It’s not our exam, but yours”.
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Old Pictures of the Russian Village
2013/06/30
Some color photos of an old Russian village called Nyrob taken not earlier than 1912.
Domes of the Nyrob temple.
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Hard Landing of An 2
2013/06/30
The reasons of the hard touchdown is the engine malfunction, collision with trees. There were five persons aboard, nobody suffered! The accident happened near Khabarovsk, Russia.
It could end much worse!
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So Versatile Space
2013/06/30
In the end of June there was held an interesting exhibition in the Art Museum of Moscow. It displayed unique photographs of the Russian cosmonautics, everyday life of cosmonauts in space. Some photos of the exhibition can be seen inside this post.
Belka and Strelka – the dogs which flew into space.
Cosmonaut dog Ugolek.
Engineer and cosmonaut in Baikonur, 1964.
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov in open space, June 25, 1984.
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Nice Kremlin of Rostov
2013/06/30
Rostov Kremlin is one of the most beautiful historic constructions in Russia. It was built in the seventeenth century as a residence for a metropolitan. A century later the metropolitan moved to Yaroslavl and they planned to demolish the kremlin but the locals stood up for it.
Coming inside.
Many people cross themselves at the entry.
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