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Yet another American photographer went to see USSR in 1958. His focus of interest was the Volga river and cities on its shores. After he returned he made an album called "Volga River Essay", and here it is: Hope you … Read more...
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Yet another American photographer went to see USSR in 1958. His focus of interest was the Volga river and cities on its shores. After he returned he made an album called "Volga River Essay", and here it is: Hope you … Read more...Here is a collection of most expensive yachts of Russian billionaires. And first of all here is the most expensive among Russian yachts - "Eclipse". It belongs to Roman Abramovitch. This thing is very expensive and huge. It's 162.5 meter (500 feet) long. They say it costed him $1.2 billion! It has a SPA centre, carries helicopter and has a full size pool. And it maintenance is expensive. For example just one fill up of the tank worth $600,000! For this reason he rents his yacht away to cover up some of the expenses. Also "Eclipse" yacht got it's own personal mini-submarine.
Let's see some more of those:
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Dilbar of another Russian billionaire. They say it's less expensive, around $600,000,000, however it's more spacy with her six decks and has two helicopter pads. It can host 40 guests and a crew. Has it's own private restaraunt.
Le Grand Blue. This boat has a rich history. Was built for an American enterpreneur, later was bought by Roman Abramovich (remember that first yacht we had?). Later it became "too small" for him and he gave it as a gift to his friend, another Russian billionaire and his partner Evgeny Shvidler. Because it's cheap - just $100,000,000, so he could afford such a present, being worth of around $15 Billion himself. This boat carries two smaller boats just in case you want to move around and a helicopter.
Here is a collection of most expensive yachts of Russian billionaires. And first of all here is the most expensive among Russian yachts - "Eclipse". It belongs to Roman Abramovitch. This thing is very expensive and huge. It's 162.5 meter (500 feet) long. They say it costed him $1.2 billion! It has a SPA centre, carries helicopter and has a full size pool. And it maintenance is expensive. For example just one fill up of the tank worth $600,000! For this reason he rents his yacht away to cover up some of the expenses. Also "Eclipse" yacht got it's own personal mini-submarine.
Let's see some more of those:
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Dilbar of another Russian billionaire. They say it's less expensive, around $600,000,000, however it's more spacy with her six decks and has two helicopter pads. It can host 40 guests and a crew. Has it's own private restaraunt.
Le Grand Blue. This boat has a rich history. Was built for an American enterpreneur, later was bought by Roman Abramovich (remember that first yacht we had?). Later it became "too small" for him and he gave it as a gift to his friend, another Russian billionaire and his partner Evgeny Shvidler. Because it's cheap - just $100,000,000, so he could afford such a present, being worth of around $15 Billion himself. This boat carries two smaller boats just in case you want to move around and a helicopter.
Gaz-21 Volga car was a symbol of luxury in 1950-1960s in USSR. Very expensive, hard to get, the car that was used by part officials and rich farmers of Georgia alike was attracting sights on the streets. Pity but not many of those survived till now. However this time guy got lucky - guy discovered a fully untouched car with just around 20,000 km on it. The paint is still shiny and bright as it was sheltered in a garage. No corrosive spots, clean interior, let's take a look!
This is where it was stored, in Ukraine with old Soviet plates on it.
Probably thanks to more soft climes of Ukraine it survived so nicely.
It was stored in a garage covered by soft fabric as it was recommended by Soviet car maker. So it paid off - the condition is just flawless.
The interiors even had the plastic covers that went from a factory to preserve seats material.
Then the owner put in on sale and of course immidiately received a lot of bids. Every collector wanted this piece.
It was the latest "reface" of Volga - the latest 1970 model. In total 470,000 of those cars were sold in USSR.
The car had "powerful" 2.5 liter 75 horse power engine
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Gaz-21 Volga car was a symbol of luxury in 1950-1960s in USSR. Very expensive, hard to get, the car that was used by part officials and rich farmers of Georgia alike was attracting sights on the streets. Pity but not many of those survived till now. However this time guy got lucky - guy discovered a fully untouched car with just around 20,000 km on it. The paint is still shiny and bright as it was sheltered in a garage. No corrosive spots, clean interior, let's take a look!
This is where it was stored, in Ukraine with old Soviet plates on it.
Probably thanks to more soft climes of Ukraine it survived so nicely.
It was stored in a garage covered by soft fabric as it was recommended by Soviet car maker. So it paid off - the condition is just flawless.
The interiors even had the plastic covers that went from a factory to preserve seats material.
Then the owner put in on sale and of course immidiately received a lot of bids. Every collector wanted this piece.
It was the latest "reface" of Volga - the latest 1970 model. In total 470,000 of those cars were sold in USSR.
The car had "powerful" 2.5 liter 75 horse power engine
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Another set from another foreigner who visited "closed" country Soviet Union in 1968. His main cities of focus were Kiev and Odessa which are Ukraine now, but at time it was a pretty much Russian cities as any other city in USSR. Take a look, some atmospheric photos, and which is nice they are in full color.
Also, a reminder, you can click on the photo and it would be opened full size.
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Another set from another foreigner who visited "closed" country Soviet Union in 1968. His main cities of focus were Kiev and Odessa which are Ukraine now, but at time it was a pretty much Russian cities as any other city in USSR. Take a look, some atmospheric photos, and which is nice they are in full color.
Also, a reminder, you can click on the photo and it would be opened full size.
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