By many, St Peters­burg (Leningrad  in 1924  –  1991) is often con­sid­ered to be so beau­ti­ful due to its archi­tec­ture of Ital­ian ori­gin. Quite strange to see these fine build­ings embell­ished by the sym­bols of the Soviet Era. Let’s take a walk around this fine city in the sum­mer almost 30 years ago.

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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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Please wel­come our new author Vadim Costyrin with his first but seri­ous post on the present days of those born in the USSR, brought up by the Yeltsin’s coup and now left to seek their national and cul­tural iden­tity all by them­selves.
Once the USSR inspired us with fear, now this coun­try does not exist. We […]

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In early 1930s with­out any licens­ing arrange­ments the Soviet engi­neers copied the first lim­ou­sine car  for the Com­mu­nist party exec­u­tives. In 1932 six lim­ou­sines were copied off the Amer­i­can Buick 90L. How­ever,  later the fac­tory pro­duc­tion line was switched to pro­duc­ing cater­pil­lar tractors,so the lim­ou­sine busi­ness was shifted to Moscow Stalin Fac­tory.
The car, based on […]

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Once some music com­poser said  that “There are only seven notes which com­pose all the music in the world.  No wod­ner some songs sound alike”.  Undoubt­edly,  all cars  have got four wheels, so pla­gia­rism in the auto­mo­bile indus­try is hard to pinch.  In this arti­cle we delib­er­ately ignore a pop­u­lar Soviet point of view […]

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1981. “Milk” (rus. Moloko). In the front a woman pushes the blue pram with a ‘win­dow’. It was incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult to buy this sort of prams in those times.

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