In 1984 the big coun­try needed a big plane. Antonov Design Bureau was entrusted with devel­op­ing of a plane for large-sized cargo trans­porta­tion. A six-motor super heavy tur­bo­jet plane An-225 «Mriya» («dream» in Ukran­ian) became the prod­uct of the design­ers’ four-year work. The air­craft, which will cel­e­brate it’s twenty years anniver­sary of its first test […]

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Chem­i­cal pho­tog­ra­phy as we know it today was not invented in a day  —  one of the stages in devel­op­ing was the glass neg­a­tives pho­tog­ra­phy, when the   glass plates were cov­ered with a pro­tein emul­sion  —  invented in 1841, the process was clunky and dif­fi­cult to repro­duce. Those images can now be iden­ti­fied by the uneven coat of […]

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Remem­ber our post about  Slava Kurilov, the guy who jumped off the cruise ship near the Philip­pines islands   —   and swam to free­dom for three con­sec­u­tive days, com­pletely alone at sea? Our today’s post tells a story just as remark­able  —  a young Russ­ian sur­geon Leonid Rogo­zov, stranded in  Antarc­tica with the Sixth Soviet Antarc­tic Expe­di­tion, in 1961 performs […]

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From now on each Wednes­day Real USSR will try to bring you enter­tain­ing rather than infor­ma­tive posts  –  let us know how you like it.
These pho­tos are from a pri­vate col­lec­tion of a typ­i­cal Moscow fam­ily. They are dated back to 1936  –  1940 -  the years known as the  period of Stalin’s most cruel polit­i­cal repres­sions.  Sev­eral mil­lion people […]

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