[250x]What is a communal apartment? Wikipedia gives this answer: Communal apartments appeared in Tsarist Russia. The term communal apartments is a product of the Soviet epoch.[1] The concept of communal apartments grew in Russia and Soviet Union as a response & Read more...
[250x]In Russian army soldiers are not allowed to carry mobile phones or smartphones with themselves. Can use only during their free time, because they are considered to working with secret objects. However not every soldier hands in his phone to & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/26/what-russian-army-does-with-soldiers-mobile-phones-photos/
[250x]In distant parts of Russia you can still see some of the most simple looking airport buildings. Most of them are wooden but are still working and host passengers waiting for flights, etc. We have a small collection of those & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/25/wooden-airports-of-russia-photos/
[250x]What did Russian emperors like to eat? Here we are going to tell you about their food interests. Some of them were real foodies! Russian Tsar Alexander I was fond of green teas and was having them every day in the & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/24/what-foods-have-russian-tsars-have-eaten-story-photos/
[250x]Sometimes American and Western Europe celebrities had a chance to visit USSR and even the Iron Curtain wasnt a problem. The most usual way to get into the Soviet Country was to go on tour. To get inside with a & Read more...
[250x]In the beginning of the month Russian websites featured this uber cool riot police bus as a latest anti riot vehicle that is already out on the streets in Moscow. They even had an interview with the engineer who worked & Read more...
[250x]A rare Soviet GAZ-12 ZIM car was restored. At first vehicle was in this awful condition but how it turned out, you wont believe how cool it looks now. via http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/23/another-glorious-soviet-car-been-restored-to-life-photos/
[250x]Sort of a lot has been said about political side of the Hitler/USSR invasion, but lets just focus on the tanks been used by Soviet Army on the first days of WW2 in Russia. And lets start with light tanks like & Read more...
[250x109]This is a former soviet military air defense base that has a fantastic wall around it. It must have been a very important place during the cold war. Nowadays there is other activity behind those fantastic walls that is surrounding & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/22/former-soviet-military-base/
[250x]Russian blogger Vladimir has visited one of the spookiest places in Abkhazia (former USSR part of Gruzia/Georgia). This was a top secret Soviet lab researching navy torpedoes. It was code named Lab N5 NII 4003. And this place is awesome, believe & Read more...
[250x139]Soviet party leaders were fond of spending their leisure time at luxurious mansions Soviet state has built for them. Some of the leaders had a few of those and here we have some of them for your viewing pleasure. We & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/22/luxurious-vacation-homes-of-the-soviet-party-leaders-photos/
[250x]Man went to make some early spring nature photos near the Moscow with his drone. What he found out was sort of not very typical.. When he cranked his drone up in the skies instead of the forest he saw & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/22/abandoned-military-vehicles-in-the-forest-photos/
[250x]A story of the old restored ZIL-164 pretty rare Soviet truck. Here are some shots. via http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/18/a-restored-soviet-zil-164-truck-photos/
[250x]Just some photographs of an American photographer Harrison Forman traveling to USSR and specifically to the lake Baikal in 1964. Just some shots of the Baikal village and its occupants. Like this first house is the local municipality sovet (council). & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/18/american-tourist-at-the-baikal-lake-ussr-in-1964-photos/
A couple of days ago Russian state senate Duma was carrying on (still not yet passed) a law to contraforce the American economical sanctions against Russia. One of the proposals was to cancel the intellectual property rights & Read more...
[250x]This morning some Russian people woke up to the inability to log to their messaging app of the choice. It just showing Connecting.. but never actually does. They have chosen the app for its minimalistic design, fast messaging, no ads, & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/16/smiling-stalin-photos-photos/
Hello people of English Russia. We had an Easter holiday these days so we had no updates on the website. However we are back from vodka and posting. To make up for this longer pause we will make this posting & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/10/english-russia-daily-report-part-9-putin-syria-cats-etc/
[230x170]Starting an English Russia Daily Report #8, we select interesting pieces of stuff during the day and then post all together here at Russian time night time. But before we post here we at first post thing at English Russia official twitter & Read more...
[250x]American photographer visited Moscow in 1950s-1960s and here is his collection of color photos of the various street trade he encountered in the city. Food, and not only for sale check it out. For example on the first photo and & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/05/street-sellers-in-soviet-moscow-in-1950s-photos/
[250x]An unique, Stalin era limo is on sale in Novosibirsk, Russia for the whooping price of 19,999,999 rubles which is roughly $350,000. Lets see how it looks like and why so expensive mate. First of all the car is unique & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2018/04/05/unique-soviet-restored-car-gazz-12-zim-costs-350k-photos/