April 13 2007
Found Photo: Moscow Landscape
Landscape after the April snowfall. Moscow, Maryino district. Photo by Sergey at Flickr.
Landscape after the April snowfall. Moscow, Maryino district. Photo by Sergey at Flickr.
A view of the Kremlin taken from the Big Stone Bridge. Photo By: Eldar Vagapov
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
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
A recent photo of Moscow State University. By Sergey.
Moscow-City (aka Moscow International Business Center) is a huge construction project in downtown Moscow. The goal of the project is to create a city within a city where with space for living, working, and entertainment. It is one of the most ambitious construction projects in recent European history.
While the project is far from complete, Moscow-City is starting to look more like a city every month. Here are some interesting photos that show the progress made so far.
Link: Wikipedia article about Moscow-City
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It was 17 years ago today, the day the first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Moscow. Here is video of the CBC news report from Moscow on January 31st, 1990.
Yuri Mamchur over at Russia Blog has posted a series of photos called “Night Drive through Moscow: Where Tourists Go.” It’s the first set in a series of photos he took on a four hour drive around Moscow early this month. Head on over to Russia Blog and take a picture tour of Moscow.
A temporary ice skating rink was built on Red Square this winter. Many special events and shows have been held there and the rink has also been open to the public. Here’s some footage from EuroNews showing some of the events.
The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is one of the most important churches in Moscow. This cathedral has an amazing history. It was constructed to commemorate the victory over Napoleon, blown up by Stalin to make room for the Palace of Soviets, was the site of the world’s largest swimming pool, and was reconstructed again after the fall of the Soviet Union. The cathedral’s official website documents this history with a huge collection of photos, audio and video. The video archive is especially interesting and features video from 1912 to the present.
