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Three different styles of Soviet military plates.
#1710 came from the Georgian SSR. Plate is of the longer style fully embossed with thin dies.
#6493 was sent to me from a collector who found it in East Germany, This plate is not of standard Soviet shape and size but the lettering is just spray on stencilled with an embossed border..
#5910 was found in Leningrad/St. Petersburg. This plate is of the standard Soviet square style fully embossed and well made.
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
This is in a museum in Riga, Latvia, replicating a Soviet-era flat. In one corner of the room, there was a display of toys. This, mind you, was from the monolithic Soviet Union, when Latvia was a Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Evil Empire. And the children there grew up playing the same games the children here were playing. In the same corner, there was a toy xylophone, some dominos, some dolls; even a small, wooden-sided pinball game. But of course, the leaders of both countries kept that fact from their respective children—that they were pretty much the same as the ones on the other side of the wall, growing up and playing with the same toys. No; the children had to grow up to see the other country's children as the Other. This all saddens me.
LEGO has few elements that allow you to recreate soldiers from the history of the Great War or World War II.
But thanks to a STAR WARS torso from an Imperial AT-ST pilot from Hoth and a Luke Skywalker head, I managed to create a German Winter Soldier.
Soviet aerobatic trainer aircraft making an extremely rare appearance in the Mach Loop
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The camera in focus is a FED (1b), a Leica II copy. It was made in 1937 in Kharkov, Ukraine. The text on top of the body reads:
FED, Labour commune of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR, named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky, Kharkov. (Dzerzhinsky was the founder of the Cheka (1917) which in 1954 became the KGB)
The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Дворец Советов, Dvorets Sovetov) was a project to construct an administrative center and a congress hall in Moscow, Russia, near the Kremlin, on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The architectural contest for the Palace of the Soviets (1931–1933) was won by Boris Iofan's neoclassical concept, subsequently revised by Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh into a supertall skyscraper. If built, it would have become the world's tallest structure of its time. Construction started in 1937, and was terminated by the German invasion in 1941. In 1941–1942, its steel frame was disassembled for use in fortifications and bridges. Construction was never resumed.
Floating technical base рroject 2020. NATO: Malina Class. Nikolaev, "Chernomorskiy Shipyard". Intended for support and repair of submarines' nuclear propulsion plants, including nuclear refuelling. Ukraine. The water area of the river Southern Bug.
Мифический советский корабль-призрак со сладким названием "Малина" проект 2020 - предназначен для перегрузки ядерного топлива с атомных подводных лодок. Корабль более 20 лет находится в недостроенном состоянии на Черноморском судостроительном заводе в г. Николаеве. "Малина" - своеобразный памятник холодной войны и развалившейся советской империи. Находясь на Украине он не нужен России, которая не финансирует его достройку. Согласно межправительственному договору между Украиной и Россией, подписанному в Москве 15 января 1993 г., Украинская Сторона обязуется осуществить на средства Российской Федерации достройку и передачу в состав ВМФ России плавучей технической базы проекта 2020 "Малина", заводской N 698. С учетом взаимоотношений между двумя государствами - корабль никогда не будет достроен!
A Soviet Krivak class frigate approaches dangerously close to a US warship in the Mediterranean. Late '60s or early '70s. US ship was probably the USS Leahy (DLG-16).
War Rug
Afghanistan, 1979-89
During the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989), the female carpet weavers of Afghanistan began to incorporate military imagery into their rugs, while following the style and narratives of traditional Persian paintings. On the first rug, the Soviet invaders are represented as horned demons from the 'Shahnama', the Persian national epic. The Afghan soldier in the centre symbolises Rustam, its heroic demon-slayer. The weaver of the other rug has replaced traditional floral designs with helicopters and tanks.
[British Museum]
Part of I object: Ian Hislop's search for dissent
(September 2018 – January 2019)
A wide variety of objects are on display in the exhibition – from graffiti on a Babylonian brick to a banknote with hidden rude words, from satirical Turkish shadow puppets to a recently acquired ‘pussy’ hat worn on a women’s march. See what tales these objects tell – sometimes deadly serious, often humorous, always with conviction. Unlock the messages and symbols these people used, and get closer to understanding them...
This history in 100(ish) objects shows that people have always challenged and undermined orthodox views in order to enable change. They even did so despite the establishment usually taking a pretty dim view – for most of history you could expect a gruesome punishment, up to and including death, for this kind of subversive behaviour. This suggests that maybe we are programmed to dissent – it’s just part of who we are. Ultimately, the exhibition will show that questioning authority, registering protest and generally objecting are an integral part of what makes us human.
[British Museum]
Nikon FE2 Reala 100 | This is the Order Of Lenin above the gates of the Lugansk «Лугансктепловоз» (an important diesel locomotive manufacturing concern). The Order is awarded for outstanding contribution to the Soviet state. It's still the subject of great pride, and it's not unusual to see it displayed on the website of some companies www.nkmz.com/Russian/index.html This is somewhat curious, considering the age of the internet.
Seen at the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC.
The museum gained many valuable artifacts from the Soviet space program when the Cold War ended and many Soviet space program secrets were declassified.
One of the declassified secrets is the Soviet manned moon flight program. Having beaten the US to space, the USSR wanted to keep its lead all the way to a manned lunar flight. The versatile Soyuz spacecraft was redesigned as Zond, to accommodate the longer flights to the moon. And this spacesuit was designed so that Cosmonauts could work on the lunar surface protected from the elements.
The Soviets never got around to a manned lunar flight, however, due to the problems with its heavy rocket, the N1. Four unmanned test launches of the N1 were attempted, and all four were failures, including the second one which ended with the greatest non-nuclear explosion in human history. While the Soviets were going nowhere with the N1, the Americans forged ahead with the Saturn V which never failed, and three weeks after the second N1 exploded, Neil Armstrong set his foot on the Sea of Tranquility. The Soviets eventually switched their focus to space stations and long-term spaceflight.