Girl in a Russian rocket factory

Заброшенные здания, недостроенные здания, военные объекты, брошенная техника, промзона - ОАО "НПО Энергомаш"

40mm machine gun

The Power of Decision (1956)

Abandoned remains of the Russian Space Shuttle

World Of Mysteries: Abandoned Remains of the Russian Space Shuttle Project Buran

Russian kids on tower

Moscow subway

Morning commute: a Russian commando cleaning his rifle while riding on the Moscow subway. More on English Russia.

English Russia » Photos made in Moscow subway

Vasili Blokhin

This guy is one of the most prolific slaughterer in the history of mankind: Vasili Blokhin was the chief executioner in Russia during the time of Stalin, and he is said to have personally executed tens of thousands of people. At the massacre of Katyn in 1940, it is said that he shot 7000 Polish prisoners of war in 28 nightly sessions, boasting an average kill-ratio of one murder per three minutes. After the reign of Stalin he purportedly sank into alcoholism and madness and killed himself in 1955.

Vasili Blokhin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

No Russian

No surprise this is controversial: the level "No Russian" from the video game Modern Warfare 2 has gained notoriety for its warped game play. As an undercover CIA agent embedded with Russian terrorists, the level takes you through an assault on Moscow airport, killing heaps of civilians and even awarding achievements for certain combos.

The "Machinima" version above is a re-telling of the mission in movie format, using a cinematic camera to follow the NPC action. No matter if you like the content, this is pretty well-done.

The High Definite » Modern Warfare 2: The Movie

Bechyovinka

The abandoned town of Bechyovinka, formerly a secret submarine base, is on the island of Kamchatka and is also called Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskya located a few kilometers down the bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskya.

You can look it up on Google Maps and you'll see that there's only a blurred out satellite view available, showing that it's very much at the end of the world, on the tip of the peninsula... indeed a perfect spot for a secret base.

English Russia » Bechyovinka, the submariners’ secret town

Chernobyl footage by Vladimir Shevchenko

Ukrainian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko was one of the first cameramen inside the "red zone" of maximum contamination when the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl happened in 1986. The footage shows him atop of the roof of the nuclear reactor without a protective suit. It also includes a sequence of one of the helicopters that were dumping boric acid into the reactor hitting a crane and crashing.

English Russia » Helicopter Crash in Chernobyl

Remnants of the Soviet empire

Photos of Mongolia, from Eric Lusito's book "After the Wall - Traces of the Soviet Empire".

io9: Abandoned Ruins of the Soviet Empire

Abandoned missile base

I'm a big sucker for abandoned facilities, even more so when it comes to military installations. Here's some new photos from such from the English Russia blog.. I'm mostly intrigued by those missile charts shown here.

English Russia » Abandoned Military Object

Gas band

English Russia » War Chronicles

Russian nuclear plant

Some rare photographs by Russian blogger and photographer Ilya Varlamov from inside of Russia's "most modern" nuclear power plant, built between 1982 and 1990 near Smolensk. Nice repetitive patterns here.

English Russia » At the Nuclear Power Plant

The door to hell

Amazing photographs from a gas fire in Uzbekistan. Apparently they put fire to the gas when the drilling site collapsed and it's been burning for 35 years.

English Russia » Darvaz: The Door to Hell

The lost city of Chernobyl

English Russia once again give us some great pictures, this time from a trip to Chernobyl.

English Russia » Lost City of Chernobyl

Russian army first person shooter

Russian army guys apparently have too much time on their hands, so they created a funny video of a real-life first-person shooter.

English Russia » Russian Army 3D Shooter

Laptop, Russian style

Encumbered by the financial crisis, a cunning Russian not able to afford a regular computer notebook built a "mobile" PC, by fitting all components of a regular desktop PC into a wooden suitcase. This is what you could call a "case mod", huh.

English Russia: The Mobile Computer

Soviet WWII photos in color

English Russia » Soviet Soldiers at World War 2 in Color

The Leningrad blockade

Some photos of the Leningrad siege (1941 to 1944), overlaid with modern street views.

English Russia: Leningrad Siege: Now and Then