Baikonur and St. Petersburg

English Russia keeps delivering the goods with cool photo collections. The Baikonur space launch facilities in Kazakhstan, as photographed by a visitor and the darker side of St. Petersburg.

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Russian Aviation Museum

A few pictures of Soviet aircraft parked up in a Kiev aircraft museum.

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Mini Moscow

Moscow Town Hall holds architectural models of the city which look impressive in this set of photos.

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Alternate Soviet navy

English Russia has photos of planned Soviet helicopter and aircraft carriers that never made it beyond the planning- and display model- stage.

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Soyuz on the train

io9 has pictures of a Soyuz rocket being hauled across the desert to its launch site by a diesel train. It might be hard to scale match a model of the rocket (or even find one, I couldn’t get a match for “Soyuz” at Hannants) and a Russian train, but think of the diorama possibilities.

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Russian WW2 memories

A collection of personal photographs from a Russian soldier’s collection.

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Russian soldiers in Chechnya

This photoset from English Russia shows Russian troops in less hectic moments during the Chechen conflict.

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St. Petersburg reconstruction

The anniversary of the siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) was recently celebrated with a huge reconstruction of the battle featuring authentic uniforms and tanks.

Wikipedia history of St. Petersburg/Leningrad

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American weapons in the Soviet army

English Russia has a gallery of American weaponry sent to the USSR during World War 2.

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GAZ 51 hot rod

Oh those crazy Russians. The GAZ 51 was a Russian workhorse during teh Second World War. Now one of them is being turned into a custom pickup.

Model Wheels do a GAZ 51 in 1:72nd, if you want to emulate the project.

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KGB UFO

The KGB’s secret UFO pictures?

Russian tank museum

English Russia has photos from a tank museum near Moscow. Started in 1931, the collection now numbers near 300 vehicles.

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MAKS 2007 International Air Show

More airshow pictures from English Russia.

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Russian photo reference

English Russia remains a great source of photographs for reference and inspiration.

World War 2 Photos by Dmitri Bal’termants

Military Aircraft Show in Monino. Moscow

Abandoned Trains of the Soviet Era

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Street surfing in Russia

Russia’s been having a summer of heavy rain as well, flooding a number of cities. Ingenious lunatics have just used the flooded streets as an excuse to create a new sport- Street surfing.