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 ...
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MiGs & Match: Abandoned Albanian Airbase Exposed
Tirana soars wrecks, anyone? The Kucove Air Base in south-central Albania houses dozens of historic Soviet aircraft dating back to the time of the Korean War. Kucove Air Base, built in the ...
Ukraine’s Endangered Brutalist Architecture Gets a Closer Look in Short Film
Some of Ukraine's most stunning Soviet Modernist landmarks are at risk of demolition, including the State Scientific and Technical Library, better known as the 'UFO Building.' Grandiose and ...
Russia to Activists: Stop Repainting Soviet Monuments into American Icons
The Russian embassy has taken a hard line in Bulgaria where Soviet monuments have been spray-painted to become iconic American fictional characters from Superman and the Joker to Santa Claus 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 ...
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 ...
Breaking Vlad: Street Art Takes On Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin of Russia is a polarizing figure to say the least, as these examples of street art, graffiti and stencils from all over the world illustrate. Considering his position at the ...
Out Of Limits: 15 Retro-Futuristic Soviet Town Welcome Signs
In Soviet Russia, town welcome you... with retro-futuristic city limits signs that promised more than the blustery, blustering Cold War-era USSR could deliver. The welcome is, er, radiant ...
Blood Red: 30 Vintage Soviet Accident Prevention Posters
In Soviet Russia, accident prevent you! That's the message rendered in classic commie-propaganda style via these thirty soviet accident prevention posters. Graphic workplace accident ...
Nesting Architecture: Folding Models of Eastern Bloc Buildings
This series of recycled cardboard models references both the functional styles of postwar Soviet architecture as well as the Russian tradition of handcrafted nesting dolls. In ...
