MD-160 Lun-class Ekranoplan.
My favorite aircraft.
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B.Yuri Vlasov, weightlifter, USSR, 1964
Tubed food for Soviet cosmonauts: borsch, shchi, cottage cheese with cranberry, coffee with milk.
Borsch!
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At the funeral of Yuri Gagarin —- we see Leonid Brezhnev and Andriyan Nikolayev carrying his casket. I can’t help but tear up looking at images such as this, heroes live forever and Gagarin lives forever in my heart.
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USSR. Moscow. Olympic Games. 1980. Red Square.
That woman is absolutely gorgeous.
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”…The vertushka telephone. You’ll notice its lack of a rotary dial–-not a bug, but a feature. If you owned a vertushka, it meant that you didn’t need to call anyone–- people called you. It’s a great illustration how the lack of a feature becomes a cultural signifier. Apple has used this enforced, almost gratuitous minimalism to great effect. And doesn’t that vertrushka look a bit like an iPod classic?”
—Eugene Parnell, on this Soviet-era phone.
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