Moscow
May 1st, 2007
Here is a short American news clip from 1961 covering the May 1st celebrations in both the Soviet Union and Cuba. While the clip shows little about the actual May Day events, it does provide examples of both American and Soviet Cold War propaganda.
April 13th, 2007
Landscape after the April snowfall. Moscow, Maryino district. Photo by Sergey at Flickr.
March 19th, 2007
A view of the Kremlin taken from the Big Stone Bridge. Photo By: Eldar Vagapov
March 15th, 2007
Moscow based photographer Andrey Ilyin is publishing a growing collection of 360 degree panoramas. These virtual tours of Moscow give an interesting view of life in the city. The photos, which use Quicktime VR technology, allow you to spin around and look in every direction. You can even look up and see the sky or down to see what’s on the ground. We found this view of kids sledding down a hill especially interesting.
Link: Panoramic Moscow
March 14th, 2007
Moscow photographer Sergey has published a collection of photographs featuring Russian power plants. We stumbled across these photos and found them very interesting. We asked Sergey why he took the pictures.
“Why do I take the pictures of the power plants? Well, these monster buildings are very unusual for town environment and they attract me by some inexplicable beauty. A huge energy inside them amaze my imagination and it borns I guess some emanations to people that look at them.
Sometimes I think looking at them that people waste significant part of their power and it seems that nobody cares of that, at least in Russia.”
Power Plant in Birjulovo, Moscow. It’s cold -15C.
Power Plant in Kapotnia, Moscow
Link: Power Plants at Flickr
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