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Project 613 - C-189 Soviet Diesel-Electric Submarine

<div style="text-align: justify;">A C-189 613 submarine is moored to the pontoon pier at the  Lieutenant Schmidt Embarkment. The submarine was built in 1955 at a  Baltic factory. It is the oldest submarine of the postwar construction which is still afloat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Project 613 Soviet diesel-electric torpedo middle submarine is the first and most numerous type of submarines built after the WWII. The engineering design was made by Efgrafov Y. E. and in August 1948 it was approved.<br><br>The first submarine was launched in October 1950. In 1951 it was affiliated to the navy. Since 1951 to 1958, they built 215 submarines of this type in the USSR and 21 submarines in China. It was the biggest submarine line in the history of the Soviet shipbuilding; on a world scale, it is the second biggest after the German Type VII submarine line built during World War 2.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A combat submarine aimed at fighting against the enemy's ships, drifting mines, and reconnaissance. Project 613 submarines had been on duty in the seas and the oceans up to the late 80s. They were also used for new weapons tests and as personnel training units. Some of them were converted for other purposes.</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik6AubCl_i5FGUZ8jNaGsXTOiQ8NXF70BmLoX2LvnS4HuIXYjBrLf9I9ppLKPkgczUDHLVQXKJjvwKjMXiQkHHUjCE_YvDt1uQ3P957vN1JtJEth8n7uQfPpqijgqOos6_rxEPIRi1kwYn/s1600/C-189+613+Submarine+Museum+St+Petersburg+1001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik6AubCl_i5FGUZ8jNaGsXTOiQ8NXF70BmLoX2LvnS4HuIXYjBrLf9I9ppLKPkgczUDHLVQXKJjvwKjMXiQkHHUjCE_YvDt1uQ3P957vN1JtJEth8n7uQfPpqijgqOos6_rxEPIRi1kwYn/s640/C-189+613+Submarine+Museum+St+Petersburg+1001.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXV8iqkGs09Q-mLteOaA-t13HSqSIThi5_ntcQUAhhJume_hIywQQBxTeuN32UVrGNbVYroU9xSPj1JhFffZUEUchJH-bdGwQ5WwSM4mxb2rlIqI8li5FzF_i2WlctQ7rqISqVTuG8sWFV/s1600/C-189+613+Submarine+Museum+St+Petersburg+1002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXV8iqkGs09Q-mLteOaA-t13HSqSIThi5_ntcQUAhhJume_hIywQQBxTeuN32UVrGNbVYroU9xSPj1JhFffZUEUchJH-bdGwQ5WwSM4mxb2rlIqI8li5FzF_i2WlctQ7rqISqVTuG8sWFV/s640/C-189+613+Submarine+Museum+St+Petersburg+1002.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/10/c-189-613-submarine.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Project 613 - C-189 Soviet Diesel-Electric Submarine

A C-189 613 submarine is moored to the pontoon pier at the Lieutenant Schmidt Embarkment. The submarine was built in 1955 at a Baltic fact...

7:11 AM

Rare Photos Of Antonov AN-255 Mriya From 1980s

<div style="text-align: justify;">The Antonov AN-225 Mriya is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, designed by the Antonov Design Bureau (Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company) in the 1980s. It is the world's largest and heaviest aircraft in the world (max. takeoff weight greater than 600 tonne). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The main reason it is built is to transport the Buran orbiter. It was an enlargement of the successful AN-124 Ruslan. AN-225's as known as Mriya which means Dream or Inspiration in Ukrainian. The Antonov AN-225 was designed to airlift the Energia rocket's boosters and the Buran space shuttle for the Soviet space program. It was developed as a replacement for the Myasishchev VM-T.</div><br><div style="text-align: justify;">Collection of original photos of Antonov AN-225 Mriya in action for what it built for. That is to carry the Buran space shuttle. Photos taken in 1980s.</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVpQbHqOENhyphenhyphen_kyo31EnIlh_jjlPkoOslTq2AwSo0TEC35ux0mUVEgVVH3jlad_X-h5pE9MxtBGcyRo4TsW2rjhlgeSFpItcH1AM_TfipcmpuSHljph5Jh381yQOapouq3mIJVndTYDp_/s1600/ANTONOV+AN-225+1980+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVpQbHqOENhyphenhyphen_kyo31EnIlh_jjlPkoOslTq2AwSo0TEC35ux0mUVEgVVH3jlad_X-h5pE9MxtBGcyRo4TsW2rjhlgeSFpItcH1AM_TfipcmpuSHljph5Jh381yQOapouq3mIJVndTYDp_/s640/ANTONOV+AN-225+1980+01.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRtcLRCV-bHvnR786rGtRJVrVOMdUdTx3J1rchFPwUFUv5L3BogC95pDiCeh06cdvbHDo_YuvnurklQ_lU4aiDQHc6D5cCEyL5_Z-U0tm7hyphenhyphenyIqAAl4BbCBxE5gp4GTHPqHnE-9O6ohiU/s1600/ANTONOV+AN-225+1980+02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRtcLRCV-bHvnR786rGtRJVrVOMdUdTx3J1rchFPwUFUv5L3BogC95pDiCeh06cdvbHDo_YuvnurklQ_lU4aiDQHc6D5cCEyL5_Z-U0tm7hyphenhyphenyIqAAl4BbCBxE5gp4GTHPqHnE-9O6ohiU/s640/ANTONOV+AN-225+1980+02.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/10/rare-photos-of-antonov-255-mriya-from.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Rare Photos Of Antonov AN-255 Mriya From 1980s

The Antonov AN-225 Mriya is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, designed by the Antonov Design Bureau (Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and ...

3:13 AM

Photos Of Uzbekistan In 1956

<div style="text-align: justify;">Jacques Dupaquier visited the USSR thrice, in 1956, 1964, and 1975. Let's get in our time machine and go take a look at the Uzbekistan of 1956.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNeetoN5slJrPip3NKyMwKE-f2tVkiCIaLozJTYDPbARL98Qtn0pACc7v0YCK9ovzfepEaglOK3C7vR9s_V0VwHve8yDADR0f7NgzgOiM9GEe1c9RKSaO0pAOCrXM63j97gHVlUqFV0i9/s1600/Uzbekistan+USSR+Once+Upon+A+Time+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNeetoN5slJrPip3NKyMwKE-f2tVkiCIaLozJTYDPbARL98Qtn0pACc7v0YCK9ovzfepEaglOK3C7vR9s_V0VwHve8yDADR0f7NgzgOiM9GEe1c9RKSaO0pAOCrXM63j97gHVlUqFV0i9/s640/Uzbekistan+USSR+Once+Upon+A+Time+001.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This is one of the nice buses of that time. It looks like ZIS-154, not sure.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJj9MjAMviHa-0GsQEY1jszt691it6uUGWEgy5XhcXTsCSCD5HgqkxoH_eIs_YzHBhlIswz4UiYsag8j2QLt7rkj-5Tv2VpafncR9swebBa00DWJYURmb06ZCLydmkcD1Ckagf-SenyzT/s1600/Uzbekistan+USSR+Once+Upon+A+Time+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJj9MjAMviHa-0GsQEY1jszt691it6uUGWEgy5XhcXTsCSCD5HgqkxoH_eIs_YzHBhlIswz4UiYsag8j2QLt7rkj-5Tv2VpafncR9swebBa00DWJYURmb06ZCLydmkcD1Ckagf-SenyzT/s640/Uzbekistan+USSR+Once+Upon+A+Time+002.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This is the central street of the city of Tashkent with the only passenger car.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/10/photos-of-uzbekistan-in-1956.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Photos Of Uzbekistan In 1956

Jacques Dupaquier visited the USSR thrice, in 1956, 1964, and 1975. Let's get in our time machine and go take a look at the Uzbekistan o...

8:17 PM

Mirny Diamond Mine Of Siberia

<div style="text-align: justify;">Mirny Mine is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine is 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep (4th in the world) and has a diameter of 1,200 m (3,900 ft), and is the second largest excavated hole in the world, after Bingham Canyon Mine. The airspace above the mine is closed for helicopters because of a few incidents in which they were sucked in by the downward air flow. Crazy dude.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwNSWC5Juz8KHEG6WyGZkrBlJa1qQ-svUNbgvAicbZgFsvSHkiLR-CGYj2-GWBazibCjyDYbP1IP8PdsNhvcXIYfR284Z-3n0NBRPr0Dd4xYOmMFvtyljwdnVYflL1Xx2CMqW-92awef2/s1600/tumblr_lkmxfg8HZW1qbvvito1_1280.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwNSWC5Juz8KHEG6WyGZkrBlJa1qQ-svUNbgvAicbZgFsvSHkiLR-CGYj2-GWBazibCjyDYbP1IP8PdsNhvcXIYfR284Z-3n0NBRPr0Dd4xYOmMFvtyljwdnVYflL1Xx2CMqW-92awef2/s640/tumblr_lkmxfg8HZW1qbvvito1_1280.jpeg" width="640"></a></div><br>In the 1960s the mine was producing 10,000,000 carats (2,000 kg) of diamond per year. The Mirny mine was the first and the largest diamond mine in the Soviet Union. Its surface operation lasted 44 years, finally closing in June 2001.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi40IPfSu_voyZKmoLmsmh1VmYtLnft-F_3zrg-iV6lvS6YYFsOZZm43x3fiUTNg76Y0DLAc08xiZOZNmgJTlL9bRbrJWyx-r9z50uczBAiyF5cu_OgRgfNOkYe-asFjntugZP6_3ogbsJJ/s1600/0665824.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi40IPfSu_voyZKmoLmsmh1VmYtLnft-F_3zrg-iV6lvS6YYFsOZZm43x3fiUTNg76Y0DLAc08xiZOZNmgJTlL9bRbrJWyx-r9z50uczBAiyF5cu_OgRgfNOkYe-asFjntugZP6_3ogbsJJ/s640/0665824.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div></div><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/07/mirny-diamond-mine-of-siberia_23.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Mirny Diamond Mine Of Siberia

Mirny Mine is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine is 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep (4th in the world) ...

1:19 AM

Vasili Arkhipov - The Real Man Who Saved The World

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdu5bG-C9iCLYOasRc6OH5OAjF0eyUs4ioHegmynk6awxTzrS1JAY7NFRHnQy4MxLAqiMkT0rhyAam-kWm07Ih_AezhAddgY73Zs_e7S__H8Y_Up5ilUdCUCjZkQsUMMeOGpr9qbq-y9Ai/s1600/22531.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdu5bG-C9iCLYOasRc6OH5OAjF0eyUs4ioHegmynk6awxTzrS1JAY7NFRHnQy4MxLAqiMkT0rhyAam-kWm07Ih_AezhAddgY73Zs_e7S__H8Y_Up5ilUdCUCjZkQsUMMeOGpr9qbq-y9Ai/s640/22531.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov (30 January 1926–1999) was a Soviet naval officer. During the Cuban Missile Crisis he prevented the launch of a nuclear torpedo and therefore a possible nuclear war. His story is to this day unknown to the wider public, although some believe that Vasili Arkhipov is the guy who saved the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_rAML3piGEcZs0R7T1NFzmBQFz7DnCpAV7nhcrgtQHV02it7XBwgkDx9j-R4fCr_t5tokgt6FPYr4Ly_P7rwVM1qXGhpzljeFBCdwO1H-69HpW2dx8xA7m7BouyHPTyNGDtaXvnecTDY9/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_rAML3piGEcZs0R7T1NFzmBQFz7DnCpAV7nhcrgtQHV02it7XBwgkDx9j-R4fCr_t5tokgt6FPYr4Ly_P7rwVM1qXGhpzljeFBCdwO1H-69HpW2dx8xA7m7BouyHPTyNGDtaXvnecTDY9/s400/images.jpg" width="293"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Arkhipov was born in a peasant family near Moscow. He was educated in the Pacific Higher Naval School and participated in the Soviet war against Japan in August 1945 serving aboard a minesweeper. He transferred to the Caspian Higher Naval School and graduated in 1947. He served in the submarine service aboard boats in the Black Sea, Northern and Baltic Fleets.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/08/vasili-arkhipov-real-man-who-saved.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Vasili Arkhipov - The Real Man Who Saved The World

Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov (30 January 1926–1999) was a Soviet naval officer. During the Cuban Missile Crisis he prevented the launch of ...

1:41 AM

Amazing Early 1900 Photos Of Russia In Colour

<div style="text-align: justify;">Past life, are not totally in black and white, as demonstrate by these extraordinary collection of colour photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sergei used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEgk0_VyvQvYPitX_kToz3JVNBTwcNnFI83hO1OydWscPgmHEZkqVKwD873K_S1DCgzPhA_QwLMwbNV5XFWV7PEpX3kaO0ehzbCWHfvK85hfe-XUyJm3h5-bJ0mMzyFfmLg7IzKruwXU/s1600/p30_00021773.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEgk0_VyvQvYPitX_kToz3JVNBTwcNnFI83hO1OydWscPgmHEZkqVKwD873K_S1DCgzPhA_QwLMwbNV5XFWV7PEpX3kaO0ehzbCWHfvK85hfe-XUyJm3h5-bJ0mMzyFfmLg7IzKruwXU/s640/p30_00021773.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A boy sits in the court of Tillia-Kari mosque in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, ca. 1910</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9z2OzvXkc_K31dVGIq6_JKAbo5AyBBPgwcDujEIsEJWXAy5QYOrRePupe6g2gezH7v6imtSqGnxaY36Ev4i0hVOfmsfDbcRKPrl9_080Xvt4CRWoNrzyPA4bAfjPDx6-5Rc1NnoRxK4/s1600/p29_00021526.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9z2OzvXkc_K31dVGIq6_JKAbo5AyBBPgwcDujEIsEJWXAy5QYOrRePupe6g2gezH7v6imtSqGnxaY36Ev4i0hVOfmsfDbcRKPrl9_080Xvt4CRWoNrzyPA4bAfjPDx6-5Rc1NnoRxK4/s640/p29_00021526.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A general view of Sukhumi, Abkhazia and its bay, seen sometime around 1910 from Cherniavskii Mountain.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/09/amazing-early-1900-photos-of-russia-in.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Amazing Early 1900 Photos Of Russia In Colour

Past life, are not totally in black and white, as demonstrate by these extraordinary collection of colour photographs taken between 1909 and...

1:23 AM

History Of Russia In Photos

Here is a set of old Soviet photos. Private stories in the whole history of the country.<br><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkt2bGRgT0M13oeK8ntfGLPxbSpmRjBzru5ZKk1sH_Xr90pSZhe3-6y7wIXCmyBdbkFH9wOFUsDUu_8HgwBy5G30QrAkJIktC-MnfhXGB6S7undREsZg9xsawvRh8Tl8F7wmern09Kzcs/s1600/coolsovietpictures53655.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkt2bGRgT0M13oeK8ntfGLPxbSpmRjBzru5ZKk1sH_Xr90pSZhe3-6y7wIXCmyBdbkFH9wOFUsDUu_8HgwBy5G30QrAkJIktC-MnfhXGB6S7undREsZg9xsawvRh8Tl8F7wmern09Kzcs/s640/coolsovietpictures53655.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A street photographer, 1920</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTk5HdanDgFAIWZxiwY3GO-QN2BhfO-Y9vVM9tsVB8R9byd6Qy227IqJKLMaWPGk9xogBCJU9UPoDCQdcCmi90O0-ps4AqrGKJMzcdcOA-KA5rDEHMbsYGW_8Gc-Yvy1h9dmcZFnD8MZA/s1600/coolsovietpictures53656.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTk5HdanDgFAIWZxiwY3GO-QN2BhfO-Y9vVM9tsVB8R9byd6Qy227IqJKLMaWPGk9xogBCJU9UPoDCQdcCmi90O0-ps4AqrGKJMzcdcOA-KA5rDEHMbsYGW_8Gc-Yvy1h9dmcZFnD8MZA/s640/coolsovietpictures53656.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A fight in the courtyard of a dosshouse, 1895, Mikhail Dmitriev</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/08/history-of-russia-in-photos.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

History Of Russia In Photos

Here is a set of old Soviet photos. Private stories in the whole history of the country. A street photographer, 1920 A fight in the courtyar...

12:44 AM

Antonov AN-124 - Ruslan

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW37y_jUu6YWpHaQHF7EDL66sLok4T3C5MBv0nNdnhiC7CDVIat9xEAvBhfZXPTBZVA5O0GTtXL-IEikFseRa8RaRqXE9J22LpnLOrYNusgXHoLb3rgYvEtXnY9l4CkxSOwaq9whYQepY/s1600/an-124-100_120.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW37y_jUu6YWpHaQHF7EDL66sLok4T3C5MBv0nNdnhiC7CDVIat9xEAvBhfZXPTBZVA5O0GTtXL-IEikFseRa8RaRqXE9J22LpnLOrYNusgXHoLb3rgYvEtXnY9l4CkxSOwaq9whYQepY/s640/an-124-100_120.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Antonov AN-124 Ruslan is a strategic airlift jet aircraft. It was designed by the Ukrainian SSR's Antonov design bureau, then part of the Soviet Union. It is the world's largest ever serially-manufactured cargo airplane and world's second largest operating cargo aircraft. Ruslan is a male given name used mainly Russians, Tatars, and Ukrainians. The bigger brother of AN-124 Ruslan is <a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/07/antonov-225-mriya.html">AN-225 Mriya</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh769J1pGXE2RWPZxfF5ekEYBOn3s41XI7aDN8LNahh4TWpM3w_4huW-2aUkibOhspP17aKu9I71SdqvHK_NH99QasodzS68AhxHTtLLZskWJatkZfsi4J9Vq58qqIh-8XcaGkHEvIM7EA/s1600/000000004299Rfd1278466418.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh769J1pGXE2RWPZxfF5ekEYBOn3s41XI7aDN8LNahh4TWpM3w_4huW-2aUkibOhspP17aKu9I71SdqvHK_NH99QasodzS68AhxHTtLLZskWJatkZfsi4J9Vq58qqIh-8XcaGkHEvIM7EA/s640/000000004299Rfd1278466418.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><div style="text-align: justify;">During development it was known as Izdeliye 400, and AN-40 in the West. First flown in 1982, civil certification was issued on 30 December 1992. Over forty are in service (26 civilian models with airlines and 10 firm orders as of August 2006) and 20 were in commercial use in 1998 in Ukraine, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Libya.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/08/antonov-124-ruslan.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Antonov AN-124 - Ruslan

The Antonov AN-124 Ruslan is a strategic airlift jet aircraft. It was designed by the Ukrainian SSR's Antonov design bureau, then part o...

12:39 AM

Antonov AN-225 - The Mriya

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: cener;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPCm09v9tOfjh1agkcSXd9ft-mXgwhyphenhyphenuNGlNSF46dXneSkDbOUGqyE-E-OlbEdShM5LQqa9DITshNG_DOe0WF3xF5HFetm4ACV2vj9CX2-ZFVXoO9JV3KXeb0-4p-k9qYFr84iWRxG8A/s1600/Antanov_225_%25282010%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPCm09v9tOfjh1agkcSXd9ft-mXgwhyphenhyphenuNGlNSF46dXneSkDbOUGqyE-E-OlbEdShM5LQqa9DITshNG_DOe0WF3xF5HFetm4ACV2vj9CX2-ZFVXoO9JV3KXeb0-4p-k9qYFr84iWRxG8A/s640/Antanov_225_%25282010%2529.JPG" width="640"></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Antonov AN-225 Mriya is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, designed by the Antonov Design Bureau (Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company) in the 1980s. It is the world's largest and heaviest aircraft in the world (max. takeoff weight greater than 600 tonne). The main reason it is built is to transport the Buran orbiter. It was an enlargement of the successful <a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/08/antonov-124-ruslan.html">AN-124 Ruslan</a>. AN-225's as known as Mriya which means Dream or Inspiration in Ukrainian.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNEX1GePrCUYQ6Bz91CpZW80ldJlJuwG3EkB4y_BirLP1mAMRIrEPUkHa8v0mrjTT9bEfS1ElZw_amNiUI_WybLGqgPhF6vnOK_pUfmj7XdlOmZ-s4AnO8q5njmxP9aqAtA9Xk9ISrw0A/s1600/antonov-an-22511.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNEX1GePrCUYQ6Bz91CpZW80ldJlJuwG3EkB4y_BirLP1mAMRIrEPUkHa8v0mrjTT9bEfS1ElZw_amNiUI_WybLGqgPhF6vnOK_pUfmj7XdlOmZ-s4AnO8q5njmxP9aqAtA9Xk9ISrw0A/s640/antonov-an-22511.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The first AN-225 was completed in 1988 a a second AN-225 has been partially completed. The one AN-225 is in commercial operation with the Antonov Airlines carrying oversized payload</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/07/antonov-225-mriya.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Antonov AN-225 - The Mriya