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A GAZ 51 at the Technorama in Hildesheim.
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After a morning exploring Transnistria, we find this restaurant in the middle of town. The owner has collected lots of Russian and Soviet artefacts and turned the restaurant into a museum, but here you can touch as well look at the exhibits. The food is also traditional fayre and between us we had a good selection to sample!
The Dnister River marks the border between Moldova and the breakaway state of Transnistria. However, Transnistria means "other side of the Dnister [river]", but since to the residents they're on 'this' side they call the region Pridnistrovie, meaning "Before the Dnister [river]". This part of Moldova want independence and separation from Moldova, to keep their Russian identity, but they don't want to part of Russia or have any links to The Kremlin. There has border control to enter the region but everything is so friendly, despite us being so close to the Ukrainian border.
On a trip thru Russia and Mongolia with the Transsiberian Railway. Stories and more pictures at my tumblr blog
Vladimir Lagrange (born 1939 Moscow) has been fond of photography since his childhood. Friends, relatives or simply random people have fallen into his lens. Serenade, 1962. Vladimir Lagrange/TASS. In 1959, when he was 20 years old, he started his career as a photojournalist at TASS, the country's main news agency.
Since I own a 1942-vintage Mosin-Nagant rifle in real life, I thought it was about time I changed up my sigfig to use one of the new overmolded BrickArms Mosin-Nagants with a new sigfig.
(Beautifully printed BrickArms ushanka hat, torso, and legs by Citizen Brick.)
ФЭД-2 (Fed 2-C) - 1958 - by FED, rangefinder soviet camera. (*)
Jupiter 8 2/50, by KMZ, old style, silver.
Kodak TMax 400 @ 320iso
Rapri E201 soviet spot-meter 0,8°
Adox Adonal 1+50 - 10min 45sec
Epson V600
TEM2 (ТЭМ2) shunting locomotives were built routinely at 1960-90 yy primarily by the Bryansk Machine-Building Plant (JSC BMZ located in Bryansk, Russia; Брянский машиностроительный завод). With 6225 total production, 1000 were built in Soviet Ukraine by the Voroshilovgrad Locomotive works, (Ворошиловградский тепловозостроительный завод, ВЗОР, now the Luhansk Locomotive works), the leading Soviet Plant for steam engine and diesel locomotive production located in Eastern Ukraine (now Luhansk Region, together with Donetzk the territory of contemporary Ukrainian Civil War).
The Motherland Monument is a monumental statue in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
The stainless steel statue stands 62 m (203 ft) tall upon the museum main building with the overall structure measuring 102 m (335 ft) including its base and weighing 560 tons. The sword in the statue's right hand is 16 m (52 ft) long weighing 9 tons, with the left hand holding up a 13 by 8 m (43 by 26 ft) shield with the State Emblem of the Soviet Union.
the 1950s, a plan circulated of building on the spot of the current statue twin monuments of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, nearly 200 m (660 ft) tall each.[6] However, this did not go ahead. Instead, according to legend, in the 1970s, a shipload of Communist Party officials and Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich looked across at the hills by the Lavra and decided the panorama needed a war memorial. Vuchetich had designed the other two most famous giant Soviet war memorials, The Motherland Calls in Volgograd and the Soviet soldier carrying German infant constructed after the war in East Berlin. However, Vuchetich died in 1974, and the design of the memorial was afterwards substantially reworked and completed under the guidance of Vasyl Borodai.
Final plans for the statue were made in 1978, with construction beginning in 1979. It was controversial, many criticised the costs involved and claimed the funds could have been better spent elsewhere. When director of construction Ivan Petrovich was asked to confirm the costs of 9 million rubles, he responded that this was a conservative estimate. The statue was opened in 1981 in a ceremony attended by Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev.
In modern-day Kiev, the statue remains controversial, with some claiming it should be pulled down and its metal used for more functional purposes. Financial shortages mean that the flame, which uses up to 400 m3 (14,000 cu ft) of gas per hour, can only burn on the biggest national holidays, and rumours persist that the statue is built on unstable foundations, something strongly denied by the Kiev local government.[7][8]
In April 2015, the parliament of Ukraine outlawed Soviet and Communist symbols, street names and monuments, in a decommunization attempt.[9] But World War II monuments are excluded from these laws.[10] Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych stated in February 2018 that the state emblem of the Soviet Union on the shield of the monument should be removed according to the decommunization laws
Just a fun little table scrap field radio I slapped together while installing some updates on the old desktop the other day.
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Inspired by MR. Jens
I just need to make a skirt and pants but I have know idea how to make the skirt like Jens. Also a better pic will be up once finished with no glare, hopefully...
Found in the living room of one of the abandoned houses, this hat caught my attention for the hammer and sickle logo. I can't find any references to a hat like this online, nor can I find what special significance the number 71 might have.
Yellow Dog Village - Worthington, PA
A monument of Georgian-Soviet friendship located on Georgian Military Road near Jvari Pass, where road reaches its maximum altitude of 2,379 meters, Geordia
The train from the previous picture just at a different location of my virtual empire and seen from a greater distance. Directly behind the locomotive runs one of the famous Russian 8-axle high-cube tank cars. It's a model from Russian TT-scale manufacturer Peresvet. The virtual environment was made by Midjourney version 4.