Bachatskiy coal open-cast mine, located in Belovo city (Kemerovo oblast) is one of the largest mines of the Kuzbass (total area is about 20 square kilometers, depth – 300 meters). Annual production amounts to more than 8 million 700 thousand tons.

The mine produces fuel for energy and metallurgical industries of Russia and other countries around the world.

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Tags: BelAZ · Kemerovo oblast · Kuzbass · truck

Wonderful highlights of the Alfa Show 4D, the largest video mapping projection attempted in history presented on Moscow City Day on September 4, 2011 at Vorob’yovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) on the main building of Moscow State University. More than 800,000 people attended the event.

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Welcome to Batkovsko-Olkhovsky peat extraction site located in Yaroslavl oblast of Russia. In 2010 the significant part of the area was flooded. Today it is the cemetery of abandoned peat extraction machinery.

The place has become popular among local fishermen. They are calmly catching the fish living among the drowned tractors and harvesters. It could be a great place to shoot some kind of post apocalyptic movie. Photos by borh_84.

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Tags: Abandoned · machinery · peat · Yaroslavl oblast

Currently the icebreaker “50 let Pobedy” (“50 years of Victory”) is the largest nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world. Its construction was carried out at the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad (later St. Petersburg). The construction began on October 4, 1989.

In 1993 further construction was suspended due to lack of funds. In 2003 the construction was resumed, and February 1, 2007 the icebreaker went on sea trials, which lasted two weeks. The flag was raised March 23, 2007 and April 11 the icebreaker came to its home port in Murmansk. The estimated maximum thickness of ice that the icebreaker can go through is 2.8 m.

Besides the main task of wiring the caravans in the Arctic seas, the icebreaker is also oriented towards the conducting of Arctic cruises, usually to the North Pole with a visit to the archipelago of Franz Josef Land. The video of the cruise – the icebreaker is going through the ice at the North Pole by Sergey Dolya.

Tags: cruise · icebreaker · Murmansk city · North Pole

Our first post about Soviet space propaganda received a lot of attention so we decided to make the second part. All the posters are available in high quality (clickable).

Glory to the Fatherland of Heroes!

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Tags: posters · propaganda · Soviet · space

Norilsk is a city located in northern part of Krasnoyarsk krai, about 90 km east of the Yenisei River. It is one of the most polluted cities in the world.
Environmental hazard for the population of the city and its surrounding areas is caused by the work of one of the world’s largest mining and, simultaneously, metal making plants.
On the territory of the Norilsk industrial area there are a lot of abandoned mines, settlements of the workers, railroads, etc. Here are some of the sceneries taken by NordRoden.

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Tags: Abandoned · Krasnoyarsk krai · Norilsk city · pollution

Vozdvizhenka is an airbase located in Primorsky krai. Heavy bomber aviation regiment was deployed at the airbase armed with supersonic long-range strategic bombers Tupolev Tu-22M3.

In 2010 the regiment was disbanded, some aircraft was transferred to other airbases. The airframes of others are waiting to be cut for metal. The airfield is abandoned. The photos by KFSS.ru

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Tags: Abandoned · airbase · bombers · Primorye krai

Boguchanskaya hydropower plant is being constructed on the Angara River (about 12 km from Kodinsk town and 740 km from Krasnoyarsk city). The construction of the station began in 1980 and was frozen from 1994 to 2005 due to lack of funds.

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Tags: Boguchanskaya hydropower plant · construction · Krasnoyarsk krai

Several interesting posters of historical epoch.

Second part of Soviet space propaganda posters.

Fatherland! You lighted the star of progress and peace. Glory to the science, glory to the labor! Glory to the Soviet regime!

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Tags: posters · propaganda · Soviet · space

The heroic space flight of Yuri Gagarin has opened up a new era in world history. Mankind’s age-old dream has come true.

Yuri Gagarin – the man who will never be forgotten

Interesting documentary about the flight by Russian Federal Space Agency

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