Dish Nyet Work: Painted Russian Satellite Dishes
A Russian retiree's beautifully painted satellite dishes do double-duty as works of art and functioning receivers for the orbiting descendants of Sputnik. Love of Satellite Russia knows ...
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Radar Offline: Abandoned Secret Soviet Base In Latvia
An abandoned Soviet 'secret city' near Skrunda, Latvia, once housed an advanced radar installation along with apartment blocs er, blocks for base workers. Riga Mortis They called ...
Constructivist Cool: Moscow’s Zuev Workers’ Club
Workers of the world, relax! The Zuev Workers' Club building in downtown Moscow was the epitome of Constructivist cool when it opened way back in 1929. Hipster-sky Hangout And it's still ...
Sinuous Concert Hall by Zaha Hadid Architects Mimics the Shape of Sound
The sinuous curves of sound waves will take shape on a massive scale as Zaha Hadid Architects' design for the new Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall comes together in Yekaterinburg, Russia. ...
Honeymoon Cruiser: A Bizarre Russian Wedding Coach
This 'Exclusive Limo' based on Chrysler's late and unlamented PT Cruiser was designed to transport Russian about-to-be-weds in, er, style. You had one job, wedding coach designer... and ...
Russia Hour Traffic: Andrey Tkachenko’s Soviet Car Concepts
Russian freelance artist Andrey Tkachenko reveals the figurative swans hidden deep within the notoriously ugly ducklings of the Soviet automobile industry. “General Motors is not in ...
Siberia Space: Russian Town Tints Its White Winter World
The tiny Siberian town of Ust-Yansk counters the pervasive whiteness of long & snowy winters by cladding its buildings in a rainbow of contrasting colors. To say Ust-Yansk is isolated ...
Imperial Pomp: Strange Post-Soviet Skyscrapers in Remote Russia
Deep in the most remote reaches of the former Soviet Union, strange skyscrapers glitter against the sky, made all the more out of place by their sleepy rural settings and lack of similarly scaled ...
Rage Rooms: Hourly Russian Service Lets You Vent Aggression
Has life in the modern world given you a simmering sense of resentment, anxiety and anger you wish you could unleash upon some highly breakable objects? Maybe you’re fuming over your job and ...
Makeup Not War: Soviet Army Monument’s Many Makeovers
In recent years the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, Bulgaria has become a colorful canvas for protesters, much to the chagrin of Russian politicians. The Monument to the ...
