[250x]There are many historic buildings in Russian countries. Unfortunately, most of them need major repairs. Authorities in Krasnodar, Russia, finally paid attention to this house built in the late XIX century and solved the problem the way they saw it & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/19/historic-building-now-restored/
These days seem to be gone forever but many Russians still remember them vividly. Their sweet sweet childhood, life of their parents and grandparents, poor but happy reality in the strong and big country. http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/19/ussr-the-country-many-miss-even-in-abundance/
[250x136]The strange competition was held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, as part of the festival Siberian Power Show. We know that face slapping competitions are not unique only to Russia as they take place in other countries, too. But Siberian guys look & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/19/face-slapping-competition-for-real-men/
BoogelWoogel festival, that is annually held in Sochi, Russia, traditionally attracts lots of skiers and snowboarders from many countries. This time it was visited by 25 thousand people from Russia, Belarus, the USA, Estonia, Israel and Germany. They had a cosplay fun & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/19/snow-bikini-fun-in-sochi/
[250x140]Somewhere in Russia. A lady brought her Volkswagen Passat for dry-cleaning but carwash service guys did not expect to see such a mess inside the car& Its scary to get inside even in a work wear! Oh my, how & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/18/whats-hidden-in-a-car-or-a-lady/
[220x170]Maybe this boy was once punished by strict parents for dirty shoes and now he wants to keep his boots clean no matter what& Or maybe he is just a caring son who does not want to upset his mom. & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/18/russian-savvy-how-to-keep-boots-clean-on-a-dirty-path/
[250x165]A man from Salekhard, Russia, showed an inventive winter way to easily get to work avoiding traffic jams. Wanna try the same? All you need are skis and a compact motor to activate a propeller! http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/18/russian-karlsson-heading-to-work/
[250x140]Each time its pain to see how they destroy products prohibited for import into Russia. This time they dealt away with five tones of capelin and herring roe illegally brought from Norway and confiscated by the Orenburg and Samara departments & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/18/five-tons-of-roe-liquidated/
Strange things are happening in Bashkiria. Mooses roaming about the streets, crazy cat owners throwing their pets into mooses to scare them away& Well, maybe locals know for sure that cats do have seven lives? http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/18/how-to-scare-a-moose-away-throw-a-cat-into-it/
[250x170]Just to draw your attention away from Mondays routine, we publish a cool positive photoshoot of laundry girls who dare to relax and play the fool at work as well. The author of the pictures is a Ukrainian artist David Dubnitsky & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/18/laundry-girls-fooling-around/
[247x170]This photo demonstrating a new uniform of police in Uzbekistan has just appeared in the web and attracted huge attention. In this connection why not remember the uniform presented for the Russian Post employees in 2015? Why so scary? http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/17/just-a-new-uniform-for-police-in-uzbekistan/
[250x152]When adult Russians see paintings like these, they vividly recollect moments of their earlier years in the country that seems to be gone forever. Days in a village, newborn registration, hard work at a factory or a plant, wearing red & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/17/soviet-life-in-nostalgic-paintings/
[250x165]The coldest inhabited place on Earth! Oymyakon! According to Russian school geography books the temperature in Oymyakon, Yakutia, once dropped to -71,2C, but it was never officially registered. Though the temperature of -67,7 was actually registered but in a neighboring village & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/16/the-coldest-place-on-earth-if-you-crave-for-some-exotica/
So pretty natural faces and sincere smiles Soviet women as they were in everyday life. Strong, weak, hard-working, caring, funny, overcoming, appreciating bright moments and breaking mens hearts. http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/16/female-face-of-the-soviet-epoch/
[217x170]Nuclear test site Semipalatinsky, as a rather lifeless place, was chosen for the first Soviet atomic bomb explosion. It happened in mid 1940s while the last bomb was exploded there nearly thirty years ago. But these ruins remember the time & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/15/the-place-of-the-first-soviet-atomic-bomb-explosion/
[209x170]Soviets did not use foreign cars abundantly. Only wealthy people could afford them. There is no doubt Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space and the living legend deserved to have one. He was offered foreign cars from several foreign companies, & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/14/first-man-in-space-and-his-favourite-foreign-car/
Pavel Grokhovskiy is an inventor born in 1899, thru his lifetime he invented a big amount of unusual equipment and means of landing. Right now you will see so-called “suspended coffins” for landing forces of the 1930s. They were used & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/14/suspended-coffins-for-landing-forces/
On a recent day of protests against Internet restrictions in Russia the most creative initiative belonged to activists of Naberezhnye Chelny city. What they did was … a grave of president Vladimir Putin himself. They compared his funeral with funeral & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/13/the-grave-of-putin-suddenly-appeared-in-a-russian-city/
[250x154]The Soviet Union was so huge and colorful, so different and multicultural that one who could travel across its enormous territory might have a feeling of being to many many countries. Frank Baumgart was one of those happy foreigners who & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/13/ussr-in-the-early-1970s-that-very-nostalgic-feeling/
[247x170]A NASA photographer has published a new photo of Father Sergius (whose last name is Bychkov), the rector of the Church of Saint George the Victorious and the official confessor of Roscosmos (Russian space industry corporation). On the picture Father is posing & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2019/03/13/the-man-to-bless-russian-rockets/