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Multimedia show for the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Entertainment, Photos, Politics
September 5-6, 2013, St. Petersburg hosted a meeting of the G-20 countries leaders. At Peterhof (museum, a monument of world architecture and the palace and park art of the 18th-19th centuries located on the territory of St. Petersburg), colorful multimedia performance was shown to the leaders of the countries.
Guests of the summit enjoyed the unusual show with light, lasers, fire, video mapping, pyrotechnics, high-altitude fireworks, special three-dimensional sound effects. Multimedia show was lasting 22 minutes. Photos by Petr Ushanov
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Hollywood stars photographed with a Russian newspaper
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Entertainment, Funny, Photos
These photos are not fake. At least so say the editors of the newspaper “Kopeysk Worker” published in Kopeysk town (Сhelyabinsk region).
Authors of these photos are American reporters Jack Tewksberry, Ali Sar. For four years, they get into the dressing rooms of Hollywood celebrities and offer to take a picture with the latest issue of the newspaper. Photos from hornews.ru
Johnny Depp
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Moscow from the top of Ostankino TV tower
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos
Ostankino TV tower constructed in 1963-1967 is a television and radio broadcasting tower located in Moscow. The height of the tower is 540 meters. It is the 8th highest free-standing structure in the world.
It is very hard to get to the top – the antenna tower. It is possible only on the night of Monday to Tuesday, during a few hours of scheduled maintenance. These unique photos were taken by Dmitry Chistoprudov
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The Russian Empire Warships Visiting the U.S. in 1892
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, Photos
I would like to share with you the following interesting set of historic photos.
These photographs made by Detroit Photographic Company are showing the visit of the warships of the Russian Empire to the U.S. to take part in naval maneuvers in 1892.
The armored frigate “Admiral Nakhimov”
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Soviet heavy aircraft used to transport space rockets
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Photos, Technology
VM-T “Atlant” is a Soviet heavy transport aircraft, which is a modification of the strategic bomber 3M. This aircraft was used to transport various parts of space-rocket complexes to the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
In the 1980s, more than 150 flights were made to deliver to the Baikonur the elements of launch systems “Energy” and “Buran”. Because of the specific appearance the aircraft was called the “flying barrel”.
more photos of unusual aircraft
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky – Bird’s Eye View
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos, Travel
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is the seventh largest city in the Russian Far East, the center of the Kamchatka region. It is located in the southeastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula on the shores of the Avachinskaya Bay, Pacific Ocean. Near the city, there are active volcanoes Koryakskaya (3456 m) and Avachinskaya (2741 m).
The city is the base of the Russian Pacific Fleet. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is connected to the mainland by an international airport “Elizovo.” It is one of the oldest cities in the Far East. First Russian Cossacks got here in 1697. Photos by Stepanov Slava
fly over Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
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Rare Pictures of Family Life of the Last Russian Emperor
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, People, Photos
It is known that Nicholas II was a great family man, a caring husband and father. He didn’t like social events and was spending most of the time with his wife and children.
The whole family enjoyed photography: Nicholas II himself and all his children took a lot of pictures. We present you a collection of photographs from the family archives of the family of the last Russian emperor.
Greek Prince Nicholas and Russian Emperor Nicholas II (on the top) are fooling around
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The Largest Power Plant in Russia
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Economics, Photos, Technology
Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant named after P.S. Neporozhny is the largest by installed capacity (6400 MW) power plant in Russia, the 7th largest hydroelectric power plant in the world.
The station is located on the Yenisei River, on the border between Khakassia Republic and Krasnoyarsk Krai, near the village of Cheryomushki, close to Sayanogorsk. Photos by Vadim Makhorov
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Festive and everyday clothes in the Russian Empire
1 Comment · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, People, Photos
The population of the Russian Empire for a period of two centuries of its existence was multinational. In 1917, the country had more than 100 nations, not counting the small ethnic groups.
The Slavic peoples (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, Bulgarians and others) accounted for about 75% of the population. In 1913, the total population of the country was about 174 million people; 24.5 million lived in the cities.
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The Plane Painted in the Russian Folk Style Khokhloma
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Art, Culture, Photos
Earlier this year, Russia’s largest airline “Aeroflot” announced a contest “Paint the plane of Aeroflot.” The contest was announced in honor of the 90th anniversary of the company and it was open to everybody.
The winner of the contest was the project of Alexander Sosnovsky, who suggested to paint the plane in the style of Russian folk painting Khokhloma. You can see his design on the picture below.
first photos of repainted aircraft
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