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Advertising of Soviet cars in the 1960s-1970s
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, Technology
In the USSR, a personal car was a luxury, and for only a few, it was a common means of transportation. Even if you had enough money, you still could not freely buy it at a car dealership like today.
To do this, you had to wait your turn for several years, since the number of cars produced at the factories was significantly lower than the potential demand. Until the early 1970s, the main priority was given to trucks, in particular, army multi-axle tractors and four-wheel drive dual-use trucks.
1961. ZAZ-965 “Zaporozhets”.
Soviet advertising in all its glory
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Cities of Russia at Night – the Views from Space
1 Comment · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos, Technology
Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko is the 102nd cosmonaut of Russia and the 473rd cosmonaut of the world. As of April 2019, he is on the International Space Station and during the three previous flights he already spent 533 days in space.
From the ISS, he took a lot of photographs of various regions of the Earth. Let’s see how the cities of Russia look at night from orbit. Source: Roscosmos.
Moscow – the capital of Russia.
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Park of the History of Equipment in Tolyatti
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Entertainment, Technology, Travel
The park complex of the history of equipment named after K.G. Sakharov is an open-air museum located on the outskirts of Avtozavodsky district of the city of Tolyatti.
The museum has more than 460 exhibits showing the development of the automobile, armored, aviation, railway equipment, as well as missile and artillery, naval armaments. Equipment History Park in Tolyatti on Google Maps. Photos by: Konstantin Antipin.
Tags: museum · Samara city · Tolyatti city
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The unique machinery museum of main Russian auto factory
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Photos, Technology, Travel
The following museum of machinery is the property of well known and largest in Russia and Eastern Europe auto factory “AvtoVAZ” (Tolyatti city, Samara oblast) and is located just near the plant.
There are more than 460 various machines on the territory of about 32 hectares. The photos were captured by Viktor Borisov (all the pictures are clickable).
Tags: museum · Samara oblast · Tolyatti city