The Biggest Ad Space in Russia
This one is the biggest ad in Russia. It’s square size is more than one and a half acres! (6000 m2). It is situated in the center of Moscow city and has a few full size cars sticked to it, with back lights and headlights on in the evening.
Russian Atomic Icebreakers
The Northern coast of Russia is covered with through the most part of the year. People of Russia couldn’t stand the situation when they have a 5000 mile long coastline but can’t transport anything across it. They thought they can fight the nature for their freedom of movement and have implemented those giant, nuclear-powdered icebreakers. They are completely independent from the fuel and are being powered by small nuclear power-plants on board. Here are some photos of those machines and the coastline across which they swim crushing all this ice and scaring the polar bears.
Modern Russian Cuisine: The Starters
We often get emails from people asking to cover something from the famous Russian cuisine. Well, here is an example of the modern Russian cuisine, of its starter dishes.
Home Networks
Nowadays everyone needs to be connected. In Russia it’s no exception. People want to connect and providers try to link them all but the lack of communication tunnels in old Russian heavily populated houses make the task more challenging leading to the solutions like the ones on those photos.
Saving Fishermen Cars
So after that bad fishing fishermen always need rescue operations like this one.
Cop Says: “Hit Me!”
In one of the parks of Simferopol, Ukraine they have installed the amusement machine. The machine itself is nothing new, its based on the well-known “Hit me as strong as you can!” type of machines we meet often in such places. What makes this one interesting is that it is made in the form of the bad policeman. And the built in speakers of it repeat phrases like: “I am a big fat nasty cop! You hate me so hit me! I lie to you! I bribe you!”, and one can see something resembling a cache roll on the half way to his pants’ pocket.
Smallest SUV Ever
“Lada Oka” is what to be known Russian smallest car. Made for city jungle for easy parking and low gas consumption. But if you are not a city dweller but a Russian regular guy you can’t use Oka to the most. So even smallest Russian cars are gasping for SUV glory. Now they have the smallest Russian SUV and probably smallest SUV ever.
The Local Airlines
When you next time decide to take a local flight across the Russia don’t be surprised to board an airplane like this.
And don’t be surprised, haven’t you know that the sticky tape is the best way to put pieces of the plane together? At least of this particular plane.
Tallest Man’s Bike
World’s tallest man, that is living in Ukraine has got a present from an engineer. A new bike that can suit his needs. This guy is 8 feet 5.5 inch tall (2 m 57 cm), see how the regular things look when compared with him:
Darvaz: The Door to Hell
This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.
There is also one video down there:
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