Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight
The positively steampunk piece of hardware used for tracking Alexei Leonov’s Apollo-Soyuz mission.
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The Botanist Who Defied Stalin - Issue 99: Universality - Nautilus
Lysenko vs. Vavilov feels like the 20th century version of Edison vs. Tesla.
Гибкий веб-дизайн
Well, this is just wonderful! Students from Moscow Coding School are translating Resilient Web Design into Russian. Three chapters done so far!
This is literally the reason why I licensed the book with a Creative Commons Attribution‐ShareAlike license.
1917. Free history.
Time-shifted reports from the Russian revolution, 100 years on.
All the texts used are taken from genuine documents written by historical figures: letters, memoirs, diaries and other documents of the period.
Every day, when you go onto the site, you will find out what happened exactly one hundred years ago: what various people were thinking about and what happened to each of them in this eventful year. You may not fast-forward into the future, but must follow events as they happen in real time.
Советские плакаты по гражданской обороне
This cold-war era soviet manual for post-nuclear life is as fascinating as it is horrifying.
Яolcats
In Soviet Russia, cat LOLs you.