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Watching this photo, my friend commented: "Somehow this reminds me of Soviet Union." So shall it be then.
Manufactured in Kazan, Tatarstan Republic, in 1977 according to a Russian Reverb seller.
Generally known as the Kazan Booster.
Soviet military transistors
МП42Б (analogue of 2N123)
and МП39 (analogue 2N273).
The service to Semykhody station is free and runs from Slavutych into the exclusion zone taking workers to the Nuclear Power Plant.
Sabine at Berlin's Soviet War Memorial.
The Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park is a mighty symbol of those who lost their lives fighting for the Red Army in the Battle of Berlin in 1945.
Some 5,000 of the approximately 305,000 soldiers killed as the Soviets advanced on the capital of Nazi Germany are buried here, beneath some grand monuments to themselves and their leaders, designed by Yakov Belopolsky and opened in 1949.
Approached from the River Spree, you come into Treptower Park and come across a wide avenue in the trees, a memorial carved in stone and stretching for what seems like an age.
A statue of a grieving woman representing the Motherland stands at one end, with the memorial climbing up hill to two large triangles of red granite, emblazoned with the hammer and sickle, originally bought by the Nazis for their own victory monuments.
From there the view is out over a mass of sunken graves to the striking statue of a Soviet soldier cradling a child in his arms and standing on a broken swastika, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich. The marble used for the base of the statue comes from Hitler’s Chancellery and contains a memorial crypt.
The memorial in Treptower Park, in what was then East Berlin. Our group was not permitted to travel closer to the statue.
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.
Couple of Soviet (Sandpaper type of surface) Toilet Paper rolls. The marketing is very pragmatic, the numbers indicate the size of the roll a.k.a lengt in meters probably. Purchased in Minsk, Belarus January 2016. Surprised that they still make them, but some regimes apparently feel rather nostalgic to Soviet era and also GOST standards.
Yaroslavl, Russia, 1983. The group tour was getting boring so I took off and wandered into a school yard. Nobody seemed to care. The kids really liked mt camera and kept repeating "Nikon." It was actually a Canon AE1 but who cares? These girls kept staring at me so I took their picture.
Consumer radio receiver made in USSR. It begins to become a rare item, and the prices are rising up onto the collector market.
German Tank Museum
Munster, Germany
The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank that had a profound and lasting effect on the field of tank design. At its introduction, the T-34 possessed an unprecedented combination of firepower, mobility, protection and ruggedness. Its 76.2 mm (3 in) high-velocity tank gun provided a substantial increase in firepower over any of its contemporaries;[5] its well-sloped armour was difficult to penetrate by most contemporary anti-tank weapons. When first encountered in 1941, German general Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist called it "the finest tank in the world"[6] and Heinz Guderian affirmed the T-34's "vast superiority" over existing German armour of the period.[7][8] Although its armour and armament were surpassed later in the war, it has often been credited as the most effective, efficient and influential tank design of the Second World War.[9]
The T-34 was the mainstay of Soviet armoured forces throughout the Second World War. Its design allowed it to be continuously refined to meet the constantly evolving needs of the Eastern Front: as the war went on it became more capable, but also quicker and cheaper to produce. Soviet industry would eventually produce over 80,000 T-34s of all variants, allowing steadily greater numbers to be fielded as the war progressed despite the loss of tens of thousands in combat against the German Wehrmacht.[10] Replacing many light and medium tanks in Red Army service, it was the most-produced tank of the war, as well as the second most produced tank of all time (after its successor, the T-54/55 series).[11] At 44,900 losses during the war, it also suffered the most tank losses of all time.[12] Its development led directly to the T-54 and T-55 series of tanks, which in turn evolved into the later T-62, T-72, and T-90 that form the armoured mainstay of many modern armies. T-34 variants were widely exported after World War II, and in 2010 the tank remained in limited frontline service with several developing countries.[13]
On 9 October 1956, Evgeniy Vasiliy Fedoseev, at the age of 15, single handedly killed a tiger-bear measuring three meters in height in the Ural Mountains, saving a small village and three little girls. His only weapons were a broom and his father’s leather belt. For Evgeniy’s heroism, he was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and also received The Order of Lenin and a Diploma of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet. Here Evgeniy, at age 19, is pictured posing for a bronze bust made of him for his home village.