November 2014

Donetsk Today

2014/11/19

Dmitriy has visited Donbass – the region where is fights were going on in Summer, around Donetsk, Ukraine and those are the photos he brought back. Like the building on this photo above is a museum: “Didn’t have chance to visit the museum this summer, and seems never would be able to…”. Let’s see more: Local billionaire’s fund spreading...

Ancient Churches of Armenia

2014/11/18

Armenia was the first country to officially christianise, it happened in the IV century and could be still traced through the ancient architecture preserved until our days. Practically every smallest Armenian village or town has its own church that could often be dated the IV-VIII centuries.By the way, it’s hard to confuse an Armenian...

Abandoned Children’s Place

2014/11/18

We have here an abandoned Soviet place for kids. Like a lot of the Soviet large factories had those compounds around the big cities or if the company was really big and “rich” – right at the Southern coast of the Black Sea. They were sending there kids of the workers during the vacations for free to have fun and rest. A free summer camp...

Autumn is a Harvest Time

2014/11/17

We know that fall is harvest time, and so do soldiers know. In Soviet Union it was a common tradition to send soldiers, students of colleges and universities and others to help picking the crops. However those are photos not from the Soviet years but out of 2014. If you want to get it widescreen just click – you’ll get a BIG PICTURE....

Soviet People Not Smiling Photos in 1970s

2014/11/13

Sometimes we post Soviet Union photos and people there are smiling, laughing, doing stuff and look happy, and then we think “Man, that’s propaganda! They didn’t live like that”. And now let’s see some other approach to the Soviet reality. Vladimir, a photographer was enjoying making photos of life around him in the city of Moscow in 1970s....

Industrial Splendour: Fifth Power Unit of the Chernobyl NPP

2014/11/11

This must be the most ambiguous places of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. On the one hand it’s a breathtaking industrial beauty, on the other one it’s a symbol of the time that stopped forever. Finally it’s another evidence of the biggest industrial disaster, portrayal of disappointed hopes and wreckage of brilliant ideas. All these aspects...

Awesome Russian Winter by Yulius Clever

2014/11/10

Check out this Russian artist Yulius Clever out of late 19th century. Pretty much cool – he was very interested in Russian forest in winter and seems that he could capture the magic. Just click for the large cool pictures, I liked them a lot. ...