Ways How to Protect Yourself from a Polar Bear

Russian bloger Sergey went to this island and here his story below:

For 4 days on Wrangel Island, we have seen 169 polar bears. Sometimes they came to us very close, but no one was hurt. At the same time, neither we, nor our guides had any weapons, except a pepper spray and rockets that no one even used.

We followed the rules designed by the most authoritative and experienced Russian scientists studying polar bears - Nikita Ovsyanikov. Nikita lives on Wrangel Island for several decades and have met lots of bears. He never carries weapons but used a pepper spray only 3 times.

I don't know whether you'll meet someday a polar bear one on one, but these simple rules can save your life when you meet any large predator.

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In order to understand how to behave, you have to know something about polar bears.

1. Polar bear is a predator. It is not a teddy bear from children's store. It can kill, though looks fluffy.
2. Polar bears are very careful. To hunt, they need to be healthy. A wounded bear would not be able to feed itself, so bears come into battle only in extreme cases. In 99% of cases they prefer to run away if they see that you do not run first.
3. Polar bears are very curious. There is not enough food in the Arctic, and bears come to explore everything that is unusual. So if a polar bear comes to you, the most likely, it's because of curiosity, and not in order to eat you.
4. Polar bears do not consider human beings as food. They eat mainly seals which are caught resting on the ice.
5. Polar bears are well aware of body language. It means, they understand well if you're afraid or not.
6. Polar bears have a herd reflex: it means, if one bear run, the others will run, too, not even understanding why they ran away. Just to be on the safe side.

A contact with a polar bear can occur for three reasons:

1. You provoke it yourself, for example, deciding to feed a bear with a condensed milk, as explorers loved to do. Or come closer to make selfie.

This picture was taken at Cape Schmidt in Chukotka

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Ways How to Protect Yourself from a Polar Bear

Russian bloger Sergey went to this island and here his story below:

For 4 days on Wrangel Island, we have seen 169 polar bears. Sometimes they came to us very close, but no one was hurt. At the same time, neither we, nor our guides had any weapons, except a pepper spray and rockets that no one even used.

We followed the rules designed by the most authoritative and experienced Russian scientists studying polar bears - Nikita Ovsyanikov. Nikita lives on Wrangel Island for several decades and have met lots of bears. He never carries weapons but used a pepper spray only 3 times.

I don't know whether you'll meet someday a polar bear one on one, but these simple rules can save your life when you meet any large predator.

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In order to understand how to behave, you have to know something about polar bears.

1. Polar bear is a predator. It is not a teddy bear from children's store. It can kill, though looks fluffy.
2. Polar bears are very careful. To hunt, they need to be healthy. A wounded bear would not be able to feed itself, so bears come into battle only in extreme cases. In 99% of cases they prefer to run away if they see that you do not run first.
3. Polar bears are very curious. There is not enough food in the Arctic, and bears come to explore everything that is unusual. So if a polar bear comes to you, the most likely, it's because of curiosity, and not in order to eat you.
4. Polar bears do not consider human beings as food. They eat mainly seals which are caught resting on the ice.
5. Polar bears are well aware of body language. It means, they understand well if you're afraid or not.
6. Polar bears have a herd reflex: it means, if one bear run, the others will run, too, not even understanding why they ran away. Just to be on the safe side.

A contact with a polar bear can occur for three reasons:

1. You provoke it yourself, for example, deciding to feed a bear with a condensed milk, as explorers loved to do. Or come closer to make selfie.

This picture was taken at Cape Schmidt in Chukotka

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Crimean beaches in 20 – 50 years of the XX century

We suggest you to look at a set of old photographs of girls and women, who long ago had a rest on the coast of the Crimea. Photos were made in the first and beginning of the second half of the last century and swimsuits of bathers fully shows a particular era.

Further, the author's words:

Some of the most famous Crimean bathers: Empress Alexandra and her maid of honor Anna Vyrubova in the water. (Livadia, 1913)

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This lady with grapes is also among the first Crimean bathers who have been photographed there. Her name remained a secret. But the place and the year are known: Yevpatoriya, 1916-th.

Another stranger on the beach. Judging by the background - a city beach in Yalta. Let’s try to calculate the date ourselves. Swimsuit is still quite austere. I would say - the first half of the 20s.

And about this lover of sea bathing we know much more information. Clerk of the Moscow Insurance Agency 21-year-old Vera A. Pavlova. During a vacation in Evpatoria resort "New Life" in July - August 1926, she took a few photos on the beach. A year later, she gave them to her sister. And one of the distant descendants posted them after more than 80 years in one of the most popular resources with retro photos. Very expressive photos aren’t they! Besides, as the model herself.

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Crimean beaches in 20 – 50 years of the XX century

We suggest you to look at a set of old photographs of girls and women, who long ago had a rest on the coast of the Crimea. Photos were made in the first and beginning of the second half of the last century and swimsuits of bathers fully shows a particular era.

Further, the author's words:

Some of the most famous Crimean bathers: Empress Alexandra and her maid of honor Anna Vyrubova in the water. (Livadia, 1913)

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This lady with grapes is also among the first Crimean bathers who have been photographed there. Her name remained a secret. But the place and the year are known: Yevpatoriya, 1916-th.

Another stranger on the beach. Judging by the background - a city beach in Yalta. Let’s try to calculate the date ourselves. Swimsuit is still quite austere. I would say - the first half of the 20s.

And about this lover of sea bathing we know much more information. Clerk of the Moscow Insurance Agency 21-year-old Vera A. Pavlova. During a vacation in Evpatoria resort "New Life" in July - August 1926, she took a few photos on the beach. A year later, she gave them to her sister. And one of the distant descendants posted them after more than 80 years in one of the most popular resources with retro photos. Very expressive photos aren’t they! Besides, as the model herself.

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Army 2016 Dynamic show in Alabino

Today the International Military-Technical Forum "Army 2016" opened.

Now I want to offer you to look at the open part of the dynamic show of military technique, which is shown to the mass media.

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1. We could watch the tank firing

2. TV operators worked in such conditions

3. The gunners on the position

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Army 2016 Dynamic show in Alabino

Today the International Military-Technical Forum "Army 2016" opened.

Now I want to offer you to look at the open part of the dynamic show of military technique, which is shown to the mass media.

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1. We could watch the tank firing

2. TV operators worked in such conditions

3. The gunners on the position

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Journey to Wrangel Island

Russian bloger Sergey went to this island and here is his story below:

People often ask me: "Are there places where you haven't been, but really want to get there?" of course, such places exist, and one of them is Wrangel Island in the Chukchi Sea.

The remoteness and the lack of any logistics make it almost impossible to visit. The most convenient and comfortable way is to sit on the expedition ship Professor Khromov that commits several expeditions to the island each year.

This is exactly what I did for the implementation of my dream and today I'll tell you the story about this amazing journey.

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Our expedition started in Anadyr. Despite the fact that the city stands on the water, there was no a suitable berth to which Khromov could moor. Therefore, passengers on the ship were transported by barge. Usually, these barges move cars from one bank to another.

But without cars it is more comfortable:

*Neva*

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Journey to Wrangel Island

Russian bloger Sergey went to this island and here is his story below:

People often ask me: "Are there places where you haven't been, but really want to get there?" of course, such places exist, and one of them is Wrangel Island in the Chukchi Sea.

The remoteness and the lack of any logistics make it almost impossible to visit. The most convenient and comfortable way is to sit on the expedition ship Professor Khromov that commits several expeditions to the island each year.

This is exactly what I did for the implementation of my dream and today I'll tell you the story about this amazing journey.

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Our expedition started in Anadyr. Despite the fact that the city stands on the water, there was no a suitable berth to which Khromov could moor. Therefore, passengers on the ship were transported by barge. Usually, these barges move cars from one bank to another.

But without cars it is more comfortable:

*Neva*

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Fishing in the North

North fishing differs from the familiar one to us in the middle lane. Here people don't use floats or spinners. Fishermen go waist-deep into the icy water and push a network away from the shore with long wooden sticks, and then watch a seal do not catch a dog-salmon.

First, a bit of wildlife that surrounds the fishermen. These are primarily Horned puffins - birds which I had taken for Atlantic puffins, but they live in the Atlantic, and Horned puffins and Tufted puffins live in Chukotka and they look very similar. Later, I've  learned to distinguish them, and you will also be able to do it:

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Right from the pier you can take photos of Anadyr belugas: 

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Fishing in the North

North fishing differs from the familiar one to us in the middle lane. Here people don't use floats or spinners. Fishermen go waist-deep into the icy water and push a network away from the shore with long wooden sticks, and then watch a seal do not catch a dog-salmon.

First, a bit of wildlife that surrounds the fishermen. These are primarily Horned puffins - birds which I had taken for Atlantic puffins, but they live in the Atlantic, and Horned puffins and Tufted puffins live in Chukotka and they look very similar. Later, I've  learned to distinguish them, and you will also be able to do it:

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Right from the pier you can take photos of Anadyr belugas: 

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Gudym, Chukotka. Nuclear portal of the Kuzkina mother

Even those who worked there did not even know what was inside this top-secret facility. The legacy of the times of "cold war", the storage of nuclear warheads, located in the immediate vicinity from the borders of a potential enemy. Kilometer tunnel carved into the rocks of Chukotka still have many secrets. Russian blogger Zhzhitel went there and here is his story:
I've heard a few names of this place: Magadan-11, Anadyr-1, Object C, Gudym. The locals call it a portal or hole.
Let's look inside it.

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Object "C" was built in 1958 in total secrecy. It is even hard to imagine how much the construction of the facility in terms of Chukotka costs. In 1961, the underground base started its combat duty.

There are two entrances to the base, for some reason designated as Entrance 14 and Entrance 15. Why there is such numbering and where the rest of the inputs - nobody knows.

Entrance to the tunnel is large, you can even drive there on the "UAZ", and we did it for the sake of staged photography. Then we go on foot.

It is dark, cold and wet here. In order to take photographs, we brought tripods and powerful lights with us.

The tunnel has the bends, so that if something happens, it could extinguish the shock wave.

Look at the halls, there were cables a few years ago. Now they were dragged by hunters for non-ferrous metals.

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Gudym, Chukotka. Nuclear portal of the Kuzkina mother

Even those who worked there did not even know what was inside this top-secret facility. The legacy of the times of "cold war", the storage of nuclear warheads, located in the immediate vicinity from the borders of a potential enemy. Kilometer tunnel carved into the rocks of Chukotka still have many secrets. Russian blogger Zhzhitel went there and here is his story:
I've heard a few names of this place: Magadan-11, Anadyr-1, Object C, Gudym. The locals call it a portal or hole.
Let's look inside it.

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Object "C" was built in 1958 in total secrecy. It is even hard to imagine how much the construction of the facility in terms of Chukotka costs. In 1961, the underground base started its combat duty.

There are two entrances to the base, for some reason designated as Entrance 14 and Entrance 15. Why there is such numbering and where the rest of the inputs - nobody knows.

Entrance to the tunnel is large, you can even drive there on the "UAZ", and we did it for the sake of staged photography. Then we go on foot.

It is dark, cold and wet here. In order to take photographs, we brought tripods and powerful lights with us.

The tunnel has the bends, so that if something happens, it could extinguish the shock wave.

Look at the halls, there were cables a few years ago. Now they were dragged by hunters for non-ferrous metals.

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Underwater Leaders. What Is Lenin, Stalin and Dzerzhinsky Doing at the Bottom of the Black Sea?

At Cape Tarhankut in Crimea, a hundred meters from the shore, there is an unusual museum - an underwater analogue of Moscow "Muzeon". In 1992, a diver Vladimir Borumensky found at a depth of 12-15 meters the first sculptures of the Soviet leaders, that had already been dismantled in the Crimean cities and towns. Then busts of Lenin, Marx and Voroshilov settled here. Borumensky planed his venture in a big way and wanted to bring Mao, Mussolini, and Napoleon to the Soviet pantheon.

The Emperor has not appeared on the original Walk of Fame, but divers from all over Ukraine started to complement the collection of Soviet leaders. Today in the underwater Museum there are several dozens of exhibits, from Stalin and Dzerzhinsky to Gorky and Gagarin. There is a department of writers, there is Lenin leading the boy by the hand, and the other rare sculptures that do not fit in the traditional Soviet canon.

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Pink Gagarin

Vladimir Lenin

Karl Marx

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Underwater Leaders. What Is Lenin, Stalin and Dzerzhinsky Doing at the Bottom of the Black Sea?

At Cape Tarhankut in Crimea, a hundred meters from the shore, there is an unusual museum - an underwater analogue of Moscow "Muzeon". In 1992, a diver Vladimir Borumensky found at a depth of 12-15 meters the first sculptures of the Soviet leaders, that had already been dismantled in the Crimean cities and towns. Then busts of Lenin, Marx and Voroshilov settled here. Borumensky planed his venture in a big way and wanted to bring Mao, Mussolini, and Napoleon to the Soviet pantheon.

The Emperor has not appeared on the original Walk of Fame, but divers from all over Ukraine started to complement the collection of Soviet leaders. Today in the underwater Museum there are several dozens of exhibits, from Stalin and Dzerzhinsky to Gorky and Gagarin. There is a department of writers, there is Lenin leading the boy by the hand, and the other rare sculptures that do not fit in the traditional Soviet canon.

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Pink Gagarin

Vladimir Lenin

Karl Marx

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Eric Sabo and His Famous Car Projects

A Russian artist Eric Sabo deserves the title "classic of Soviet design" for the creation of the minibus "Youth".

Actually, Mr.Sabo is the author of dozens of projects, many of which were translated into serial production. In 1957, Eric Sabo, a graduate of the Moscow School of Industrial Art (the famous "Stroganov"), was sent to the Likhachev plant. To check the "professional suitability", the fellow had to update the appearance of the ZIS-110.

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ZIS-110

The new full-face of an outdated limousine was so transformed, that a young talent immediately got a serious job. Few people know that the exteriors of ZIL-130 and ZIL-131 were created by Erik Sabo's pencil and brush.

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Eric Sabo and His Famous Car Projects

A Russian artist Eric Sabo deserves the title "classic of Soviet design" for the creation of the minibus "Youth".

Actually, Mr.Sabo is the author of dozens of projects, many of which were translated into serial production. In 1957, Eric Sabo, a graduate of the Moscow School of Industrial Art (the famous "Stroganov"), was sent to the Likhachev plant. To check the "professional suitability", the fellow had to update the appearance of the ZIS-110.

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ZIS-110

The new full-face of an outdated limousine was so transformed, that a young talent immediately got a serious job. Few people know that the exteriors of ZIL-130 and ZIL-131 were created by Erik Sabo's pencil and brush.

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Abandoned Soviet Scientific ship laying in the dried Aral sea

The Sea, the infamous Aral Sea has left this land. Now it is a desert. The Sea dried up rapidly during the 20th century and some ships decided to stay here as a monument to the sea. Now they decay and here is one of them - a Soviet Scientific ship "Otto Schmidt".

Before it was a real ship in the real sea. Now the sea is gone. Let's see how it was before and how it is now:

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See those photos from 1960s? The ship was a real ship in a real sea.

Divers were exploring.

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