[250x]A few photos of Soviet vintage Antonov airplane ads target to Western buyers. Because the managers of the company was reasonably thinking that most of the buyers of the planes from abroad would be men, they decided to put women & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/11/06/never-seen-vintage-soviet-antonov-plane-ads/
[250x]Georg was a foreigner who travelled half-USSR in 1960s. Here is he visiting Yalta, Crimea and taking pics of Soviet people and stuff around him. People spending their time without gadgets enjoying sea, summer and each others company. This is & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/11/02/soviet-crimea-as-seen-in-1967-by-georg-oddner/
[250x]It was a foggy weather lately in Omsk and it looks nice on photos. Welcome to Silent Omsk! http://englishrussia.com/2017/11/02/russian-city-omsk-during-fog/
[250x]This photos were made by Alexandr Ditlov Petersburg photographer 1912-2009. Since 1940 he worked as a photo journalist. Thanks to his photos we can see in color days long go. Army orchestra on parade. 1952. Russian Belarus army commander & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/31/nice-photos-from-soviet-minsk-1950s/
[250x]Her name is Anastasia, she is fond of space themed art. And this year she compiled some of her favorites into a 2018 calendar. Here how it looks like: via
[250x]When in other country cold weather can mean people dressing up more warmly in Russia its often a signal to some individuals to start wearing less cloths. Just take a look at those. Subway, minus weather outside, but this old & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/31/snow-arrives-to-russia-bikini-season-is-opened/
[250x140]A collection of Russian first ladies, from Khruschev to Putin and them compared to foreign leaders wives. Nina Kruscheva wife of Nikita Kruschev. She was dressing very simple and it was justified inside USSR, she looked like millions other & Read more...
[250x]This 23-year old policeman from St. Petersburg became an Instagram star with over 60,000 subscribers. His name is Artem and he is getting thousands of likes, mainly from girls. http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/30/young-russian-policeman-became-an-instagram-star-photos/
[250x]This doesnt look like anything else weve seen before skies light up in Yekaterinburg last night. A huge glowing spot in the skies. What caused it still not clear. The glowing is stable and monotonous, not reminding me & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/26/weird-glowing-skies-in-yekaterinburg-last-night/
[250x]First in Russia (and they claim in Europe as well) 3-D printed house appeared in Yaroslavl city. It took just one month to print it! Then some decoration and roof was added to make it look like a normal house. & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/25/first-3d-printed-house-appeared-in-yaroslavl-russia/
[250x]Kalashnikov company, the one that makes AKs, started making electric bikes. They have been already ordered by Russian Army and Moscow police. Till next year fifty or more electric police bikes gonna ride Moscow streets. These are not city-only bikes, & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/25/kalashnikov-electric-motorbikes/
[250x]This is not a Star Wars fan creation. Not a children attraction neither. This is a pretty serious product which helped a lot to develop latest stage of Soviet space program. Before launching and landing self-piloting autonomous Buran space shuttle & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/24/russian-wooden-spaceship/
[250x]Russian people love carpets. Especially in Soviet Union there was an obsession with carpets, practically every apartment had one, not always on the floor, often hanging on the wall as decoration as well. But not always they keep carpets inside. & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/24/what-happens-when-carpets-leave-apartments/
[250x]Before 1917 this was a palace for Count Sheremetyev. In 1918 it was nationalized and since then belongs to Russian state. Its not easy to get a permission for a drone flight and photography here but Vadim, the photographer got & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/24/kuskovo-palace-in-autumn-from-birds-eyes-view/
[250x]A few photos of female part of Russian army students. This particular ladies come from Ryazan city Airborne Forces Institute. They say that army service is increasing in popularity amongst girls and sometimes even the ones with model look prefer & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/23/russian-women-students-of-airborne-forces-school/
[250x]French baron Joseph de Bai has visited Siberia in 1897 and here are those historical photos for us to see. Kurgan station. Prisoners car train. Kirgiz people. Church. Krasnoyarsk city. Building a bridge across the Yenisey river. Enisey river. Minusinsk & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/23/french-baron-visits-siberia-in-1897/
[250x]These days a Western superstar on tour visiting Russia is no wonder. However in USSR, behind the Iron Curtain visit of someone like Elton John was almost impossible, yet it happened in 1979. After finishing a world tour in 1979, & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/23/elton-john-visits-ussr-in-1979/
[250x]What was considered a bad social practice now is fine and even in sort of trend: Russian older men getting married or befriending young women. Plenty of pairs around where wives look more like daughters. Rich men are especially noted & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/18/russian-billionaires-and-their-young-women/
[250x]Some examples of Russian everyday landscape design of apartment building courtyards mainly. Usually to decorate the place all sort of discarded stuff is used. People take stuff from their garages, dachas etc and bring on. Old cart parts, tires, plastic & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/18/examples-of-russian-landscape-design/
[250x]These are the series of events that happened in Russia and some other ex-Soviet countries in 1992, twenty five years ago. Starting with a Boris Yeltsin giving speech for both houses of US parliament, June 17, 1992. People selling vodka & Read more... http://englishrussia.com/2017/10/17/twenty-five-years-ago-in-russia-and-beyond/