Showing posts with label Russian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian. Show all posts
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Friday, August 16, 2019
Sunday, August 11, 2019
the Russian PT boat... was built with a tank turret. Think about that, mighty top heavy, but well armored and eliminates a lot of design time
They just found one, and pulled it up, from the Volga River near Stalingrad, and clearly it had been in a lot of fighting, and they were quickly stopping leaks by pounding in wood cones. Some pretty big hole must have sunk it though
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2017/12/russian-wwii-pt-boat-recovered-from.html
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Stalin's railroad... a pet project using slave labor of political prisoners to make a railroad across Siberia, to reach Eastern Russia. It was abandoned 2 weeks after Stalin's death
The project was quickly destroyed by frost heaves and structural failures arising from underconstruction.
At least 11 locomotives and 60,000 tons of metal were abandoned, and bridges have decayed or burned down.
In the post-war period, it was clear to almost everyone in the leadership of the USSR that prisoners’ slave labour in the corrupt Gulag system was wasteful and desperately inefficient. Only Stalin failed to realize this and he was obsessed by similar construction projects.
To this day, it is still not completely clear – even to Russian historians – what made him want to link the uninhabited and hostile environment of Siberia’s Polar regions by railway. It was most probably for strategic reasons.
The northern part of Siberia was virtually unprotected from a military point of view. A railway that was passable all year round, culminating in a deep-sea port by the Arctic Ocean would have changed this situation. After all, fanciful plans for linking the regions of northern Russia with the Far East had already existed under the tsar. At that time, nothing was known about the richest deposits of Russian natural gas located in the region which have seen the railway undergo new development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salekhard%E2%80%93Igarka_Railway
By the end of 1949, the number of prisoners who worked in construction was about 70,000 people. Along the route every 5-7 kilometers there were camps with 500 to 1,500 inmates – about half of them were convicted on political charges.
The entire route of the railway took place in the Arctic. Camp regime and harsh climatic conditions – thawed swamp, mosquitoes and midges in the summer and snow drifts and temperatures down to - 50 degrees in the winter
Immediately after the death of Stalin (5 March 1953), the new leadership of the USSR found the construction to be completely ineffective and work on it was quickly halted.
http://russiatrek.org/blog/history/transpolar-railway-the-dead-railroad/
http://www.stationgossip.com/2016/06/salekhardigarka-railway-stalins.html
http://www.gulag.online/articles/histrorie-mrtve-trati
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Friday, June 21, 2019
in 2001 this Russian Foxtrot sub was retired and the Russian Navy decided to donate it to a museum, but they don't make museums on the beach. So, they took what assets they had, tanks, and dragged it to where they wanted it
In 2004, the museum was replenished with the highest exhibit (24 meters). This is a low-altitude detector and a target illumination station, which are part of the S-300 medium-range anti-aircraft missile system.
According to the press center of AvtoVAZ OJSC, some exhibits exist in a single copy. In particular, one of the main exhibits is a diesel submarine of Project 641 "B-307", whose length is 91 meters, and the height is approximately equal to a five-story house (14 m), weight - 2,000 tons
The B-307 was built at the Gorky Shipbuilding Plant in 1979. The total number of such boats in service with the Russian Navy was 18. The B-307 is the largest diesel submarine in the Russian Navy. NATO sailors call it "Tango", Russian - "Foxtrot". The submarine is slow, maneuverable. Carries on itself 24 torpedoes and 32 anti-submarine mines. In autonomous navigation can be 90 days. The duration of the B-307 combat duty as part of the Red Banner Northern Fleet was 22 years.
In 2001, the submarine was prepared for write-off and transfer to the AvtoVAZ technical museum. By that time, the museums of Moscow, Kaliningrad, Hamburg (Germany) and Brühl (Belgium) had the same submarines. At first, the fleet wanted to simply donate a boat to the museum, but this was not allowed by the federal authorities: according to the law, federal property cannot be given away for nothing. The museum had to buy a boat for a symbolic price - for only 768 thousand rubles. Not much, considering that the Moscow Museum at one time laid out 48 million rubles for a similar exhibit.
The submarine B-307 was supposed to be in Togliatti in the summer of 2003. However, due to the tragedy that occurred in the Barents Sea when transporting the K-149, as a result of which people died, the Ministry of the Navy demanded that transportation in Avtograd "B-307" were enhanced security measures.
The preparation of the boat for the transition from Kronstadt to Tolyatti took several months. The boat was carefully sealed, it was freed from solid and liquid ballast weighing 354 tons, dismantled a number of nodes and installed on pontoons. On the pontoons with the help of two tugboats, the B-307 began its long journey to Tolyatti from the Gulf of Finland along the Neva River. In one night, a train of about one hundred and forty meters in length went through all eight bridges of St. Petersburg. Equally successful was the echelon of the Ladoga, Onega and White lakes, and the Rybinsk reservoir. The crew of the boat escort consisted of a few vazovtsevs, the Navy’s search and rescue specialists and the chief consultant for the preparation of the submarine for the transition - midshipman Mikhail Golotyuk, who served on this boat for many years.
The future museum exhibit was moored in the Togliatti river port, and then driven off to the village of Primorsky, where a berth was specially constructed for the B-307. In the fall of 2004, the submarine was pulled out of the water onto land, and in the winter of 2005 it was taken along a specially cleared 4.5-km long road to the museum. Before removing the submarine from the water, Togliatti engineers specially traveled to Kronstadt to see how the submarines were raised ashore for repair. This is a very difficult operation, for which a whole year was being prepared. To the museum site, the submarine was rolled on ice. From the bank of the Volga "B-307" towed 9 military towing vehicles on tracked undercarriage. In total, for the transportation of the submarine, 15 units of military equipment were used, specially discharged for this purpose from the military ground in Totsky.
Undoubtedly, the B-307 is the pride of the Russian submarine fleet and the man-made monument to the Gorky designers who created it. Designers who not only forever inscribed their names in the history of the Navy, but also showed how our engineering thought overtook the ideas of foreign scientists. The valor of Soviet and Russian engineers is admired all over the world: the “twin” of the “B-307” - the diesel boat “B-515”, has been in the National Museum in Hamburg for several years now - the cradle of the military fleet. The uniqueness of the museum specimen is that, unlike other submarines acquired by museums, the Togliatti submarine was transported entirely from Kronstadt to Avtograd, without cutting the ship into pieces. Nothing like this has ever happened in the world. Similar submarines purchased by other museums have always been transported in parts.
the technical museum of AvtoVAZ OJSC http://www.city-on-volga.ru/ru/dobro-pozhalovat-v-toljatti/tourism
https://fishki.net/2115491-kak-samaja-bolyshaja-dizelynaja-podlodka-vmf-rossii-okazalasy-posredi-stepi-v-tolyjatti/gallery-3904497-v-itoge-muzeju-lodku-prishlosy-pokupaty-za-simvolicheskie-768-tysjach-rublej-simvolicheskie-potomu-chto-tochno-takuju-zhe-podlodku-moskovskij-muzej-pokupal-za-48-millionov-rublej-photo.html
https://war-museum.livejournal.com/105796.html
https://enrique262.tumblr.com/post/179916367655/literally-tying-half-a-dozen-tanks-to-a-submarine
Tuesday, June 04, 2019
there must be a lot of good reasons to not build a new one, and go through this much trouble to move a building instead
Next, a 7600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987
https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2014/12/29/hazkoltoztetok_412
https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2016/04/24/napi_erdekes_628
https://earthlymission.com/rarely-seen-enchanted-moments-of-world-history/
Sunday, June 02, 2019
Saturday, June 01, 2019
Friday, May 31, 2019
1970. The pedal car manufacturing in Moscow
https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2018/09/09/napi_erdekes_679
Gary found this image of one of these pedal cars! Thanks Gary!
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Tuesday, May 07, 2019
Monday, May 06, 2019
literally coming in hot
Where the hell are the fire fighting trucks?
The plane had 78 passengers and 5 crew, and 41 died
Want to know why the 41 died?
because people stood in the god damn aisle and grabbed their luggage from the damn overhead bins, preventing other passengers from escaping down the aisle.
People died, because of assholes getting their luggage. Don't believe me? I see at least 3 people in the top video who got off ahead of the rest, with back packs and hand carried luggage
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/evacuation-burning-plane-delayed-passengers-15002110
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Unusual leather clad car made in Russia about 5 years ago
Irkutsk customizer Evgeny Mikhlik bought a 1993 Toyota to make an original show car, a variation on the Volga GAZ-21, powered by a Toyota 2JZ-GTE, then a 1GZ-JEn (what ever those are) with fiberglas panels over a tube frame, covered in buffalo leather, with under the hood airbrushing by airbrush artist Mikhail Zolotov
http://englishrussia.com/2018/09/30/russian-oligarch-exclusive-car-for-sale/
https://www.popmech.ru/vehicles/15053-v-bizoney-shkure/#part0
the body design will seem familiar I think, as it was perfect when they did it a decade prior to this when the Holden Efigy was made
giving credit where it's due
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
from painting backdrops for for the Ballets Russes to teaching at Pennsylvania’s University of the Arts, an artists life is unpredictable and it's beginning has no indication of it's end
Alexey Brodovitch was born in Ogolichi, Russian Empire (now Belarus) to a wealthy family in 1898. His father was a respected physician, his mother was an amateur painter.
During the Russo-Japanese War, his family moved to Moscow, and Brodovitch was sent to study at a prestigious institution in Saint Petersburg, with the intentions of eventually enrolling in the Imperial Art Academy. He had no formal training in art through his childhood, but often sketched noble profiles in the audience at concerts in the city.
At the young age of 16, Brodovitch abandoned his dream of entering the Imperial Art Academy and ran away from home to join the Russian army at the start of WW1. Not long after, his father had him brought home and hired a private tutor to help Brodovitch finish school. Upon graduating, he ran away again on several occasions.
During the Russian Civil War, Brodovitch was badly wounded and surrounded by the Bolsheviks, forcing him into exile, but by good fortune, his brother turned out to be one of the soldiers guarding the refugees, and their father, who had been imprisoned in Saint Petersburg by the Bolsheviks, managed to flee to Novorossiysk in hopes of finding his family. The three were once again together, and arranged for his mother to join them in Constantinople. Finally reunited, the Brodovitchs made their way to France.
Upon arriving in Paris, he wanted to be a painter, and took a job painting houses among other Russian artists who had settled in Paris at the end of the 19th century. This group of artists included Chagall. His connections with these young Russian artists led to more artistic work as a painter of backdrops for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
On nights and weekends he began sketching designs for textiles, china, and jewelry. By the time his work for the ballet had finished, he had already compiled an extensive portfolio of these side projects and was working part-time doing layouts for an important art journal, and an influential design magazine.
While working on layouts, Brodovitch was responsible for fitting together type, photographs, and illustrations on the pages of the magazines. He had the rare opportunity of having influence over the look of the magazine as there was no art director.
He gained public recognition for his work in the commercial arts by winning first prize in a poster competition for an artists' soiree, a drawing by Picasso took second place.
His success with posters led him to art-direct Harper’s Bazaar from 1934 to 1958, and teach at Pennsylvania’s University of the Arts. Brodovitch's department came to be known as a 'prep school' for agencies and magazines around the country:
Mary Fullerton, art director of Mademoiselle
Joseph Gering, Brides
Robert Greenwell, art director of RCA Records
Nelson Gruppo, art director at Stage, Promenade, and This Week
Joe Jones, House Beautiful
Allan Porter, editor in chief Camera magazine
Alfred Lowrey, art director at Good Housekeeping, American Weekly, and Newsweek
David Steck of Life Magazine
Victor Trasoff, art director of CBS
Irving Penn of Vogue Magazine
Tony Lane, art director Rolling Stone
In 1971 the Doctor of Fine Arts Degree was conferred posthumously on Brodovitch by the Philadelphia College of Art.
These two posters for Donnet are all I can find of his advertising art. That's a pity.
http://www.rennertsgallery.com/2018/02/21/coats-of-many-colors/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Brodovitch
https://www.internationalposter.com/
Monday, December 10, 2018
Wednesday, December 05, 2018
Monday, December 03, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Pedestrians aren't allowed on this bridge in Vladivostok, so four guys dressed up as a bus to try and sneak across the Zolotoy Bridge in Russia. It has been closed to pedestrian traffic for years
Four guys in Russia attempted to cross the vehicle-only Zolotoy Bridge in the city of Vladivostok on foot by dressing up as a yellow bus, though, it's possible they are protesting the law banning pedestrians more than they were trusting this disguise to get them across the bridge
Many residents protested against the decision to close the bridge to pedestrians, arguing that it is much faster and easier to reach the city center by crossing the bridge on foot than wasting time stuck in traffic jams. There were several attempts to lift the ‘walkthrough ban’ but to no avail – as of today, you can only cross the bridge while driving or riding in a vehicle.
The two-kilometer bridge was opened seven years ago, and officially closed to pedestrians three years later for safety reasons.
A security guard spotted the "bus" and stopped the group, ordering them to turn around.
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/4-men-dressed-up-as-a-bus-to-cross-vehicle-only-bridge-video-will-make-you-lol-1947013
https://www.rt.com/russia/443819-russia-masquerade-bus-bridge/
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