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 ...
Tag: USSR
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 ...
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 ...
Unfree Wheeling: Amusingly Surreal Vintage Soviet Auto Ads
The Soviet Union not only manufactured cars, they exported them to buyers charmed (or duped) by some amusingly and bemusingly photographed advertisements. Putin the pedal to the metal ...
Brutalist but Beautiful: 12 Spacey Sci-Fi Soviet Structures
The single most divisive architectural movement, Brutalism is harsh, jagged and geometric, calling to mind massive concrete spaceships - and nobody did it better (or stranger) than the Soviets. ...
Played Out: 10 Cheerless Abandoned Toy Factories
There are few things sadder than an abandoned toy, and abandoned toy factories take that sense of lost innocence to dramatically deeper depths of despair. ...
Rocket Signs: Space Race Monuments Of The USA & USSR
Remember the Space Race? Over the better part of a decade, the world's two superpowers competed in the coldest of wars far above the atmosphere... and beyond! These 10 Space Race monuments document ...
Constructivist Manifesto: Russia’s Hammer & Sickle Canteen
The hammer & sickle shaped Maslennikov Kitchen Factory, located 500 miles southeast of Moscow in Samara, once stood at the pinnacle of the Soviet Constructivist architecture movement. Today, as ...
(Not) Only in Russia: 7 Deserted Wonders of the Former USSR
There are amazing abandonments in America but the former Soviet Union has some of the most interesting, unique and strange abandoned buildings. The complex political, military and social history ...
