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🚀 Gagarin's Globe: a navigator without a single chip.
👨🚀April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin, in the cramped cabin of Vostok-1, looks at Earth and at a small globe just 13 cm in diameter. Under a transparent dome is an aiming reticle, and inside — hundreds of gears, cams, and differentials. No processors, no screens.
👨🚀This mechanical sphere accurately showed where the spacecraft was: over Africa, the Pacific Ocean, or already above his home country.
The legendary "Globe" device (officially the ИМП — In-flight Position Indicator) was used until 2002, when it was replaced by a digital display of the Neptune-ME system.
👨🚀The device was created by Soviet engineers for space, where instruments have no right to fail.
Video: Cloud4Y
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👨🚀April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin, in the cramped cabin of Vostok-1, looks at Earth and at a small globe just 13 cm in diameter. Under a transparent dome is an aiming reticle, and inside — hundreds of gears, cams, and differentials. No processors, no screens.
👨🚀This mechanical sphere accurately showed where the spacecraft was: over Africa, the Pacific Ocean, or already above his home country.
The legendary "Globe" device (officially the ИМП — In-flight Position Indicator) was used until 2002, when it was replaced by a digital display of the Neptune-ME system.
👨🚀The device was created by Soviet engineers for space, where instruments have no right to fail.
Video: Cloud4Y
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✈️ Il-76TD-90VD – the world's most popular cargo aircraft
👨✈️The heavy ramp cargo Il-76TD is unrivaled: a massive cargo hold, high payload, autonomous loading without special ground equipment, and the ability to operate from airfields with poor infrastructure, including in the Arctic.
👨✈️Volga-Dnepr upgraded it into the Il-76TD-90VD with PS-90A-76 engines and modern avionics approved for flights worldwide.
👨✈️It features a rear cargo door with a folding ramp, two electric winches (3 tons each), and four electric hoists (12 tons total) for oversized cargo.
Video: Ил76WeChat
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👨✈️The heavy ramp cargo Il-76TD is unrivaled: a massive cargo hold, high payload, autonomous loading without special ground equipment, and the ability to operate from airfields with poor infrastructure, including in the Arctic.
👨✈️Volga-Dnepr upgraded it into the Il-76TD-90VD with PS-90A-76 engines and modern avionics approved for flights worldwide.
👨✈️It features a rear cargo door with a folding ramp, two electric winches (3 tons each), and four electric hoists (12 tons total) for oversized cargo.
Video: Ил76WeChat
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🚄🇨🇳 Russian Railways to launch tourist train from Russia to China
The route is planned to open next year. The carriages will feature showers, a spa, bars, and karaoke.
Photo: Особое мнение
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🫡 A meeting of the defenders of Pavlov's House in Volgograd, 1983.
Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Jews, Uzbek, Kazakh, Abkhazian, Tajik and Tatar valiantly held the defense for 58 days.
Pavlov's House is a four-story residential building in Volgograd, which became a symbol of the heroic defense of the city during the Battle of Stalingrad. For 58 days (from September 23 to November 25, 1942), a group of Soviet soldiers held the defense here, preventing the building from being captured by the enemy.
📝 Marshal Vasily Chuikov wrote:
Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Jews, Uzbek, Kazakh, Abkhazian, Tajik and Tatar valiantly held the defense for 58 days.
Pavlov's House is a four-story residential building in Volgograd, which became a symbol of the heroic defense of the city during the Battle of Stalingrad. For 58 days (from September 23 to November 25, 1942), a group of Soviet soldiers held the defense here, preventing the building from being captured by the enemy.
📝 Marshal Vasily Chuikov wrote:
"This small group, defending one house, destroyed more enemy soldiers than the Hitlerites lost in the capture of Paris".
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At 4 o'clock in the morning, without presenting any claims to the Soviet Union, without a declaration of war, German troops attacked our country...
🚩On June 22, 1941, at 12:15 PM, Vyacheslav Molotov delivered his historic speech. Fierce battles were already raging along the western border.
🚩Tomorrow, on the #Деньпамятиискорби Russia will honor the memory of those who perished in the Great Patriotic War. Our channel will join the All-Russian Moment of Silence at exactly 12:15 PM Moscow time. Join us!
🚩On June 22, 2026, at 12:15, we will remember those who fell in the battles for freedom, for life, for the very existence of our Motherland.
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🚩On June 22, 1941, at 12:15 PM, Vyacheslav Molotov delivered his historic speech. Fierce battles were already raging along the western border.
🚩Tomorrow, on the #Деньпамятиискорби Russia will honor the memory of those who perished in the Great Patriotic War. Our channel will join the All-Russian Moment of Silence at exactly 12:15 PM Moscow time. Join us!
🚩On June 22, 2026, at 12:15, we will remember those who fell in the battles for freedom, for life, for the very existence of our Motherland.
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A fierce and uncompromising showdown in an Egyptian hotel. The Towel War. 🛁
🌴Usually, housekeepers make cute towel swans. But one Russian traveller fought back — and a creative battle began ☀️
🐊Each morning she found a new “animal” on her bed: crocodile, turtle, dog. The staff outdid themselves.
🦀She didn’t give up! She folded trickier shapes, left drawings, and built a Seafloor inhabitants.
🤝By the end, they became friends, smiling and fist‑bumping over towel art. “Better than any animators,” she laughs. “Now my summer move is winning towel battles.”
🦢Ever tried anything beyond a standard swan?)
Video: Pro.Ульяновск
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🌴Usually, housekeepers make cute towel swans. But one Russian traveller fought back — and a creative battle began ☀️
🐊Each morning she found a new “animal” on her bed: crocodile, turtle, dog. The staff outdid themselves.
🦀She didn’t give up! She folded trickier shapes, left drawings, and built a Seafloor inhabitants.
🤝By the end, they became friends, smiling and fist‑bumping over towel art. “Better than any animators,” she laughs. “Now my summer move is winning towel battles.”
🦢Ever tried anything beyond a standard swan?)
Video: Pro.Ульяновск
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• Есть кто живой?
Is there anyone alive?
Tap ❤️ if you are still with us!
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🟠 Choose ALL the correct meanings of the Russian verb ПОДГОРАЕТ:
Anonymous Poll
61%
a synonym for the verb ЗАГОРАЕТ (lying in the sun)
49%
someone forgot to turn on the food on the stove and now there‘s going to be a fire
7%
it‘s a code word used by the KGB to identify "friend or foe"
15%
the feelings of the RCR admin when rocket alerts are announced again in the morning
3%
something related to mountains or slides
8%
Can we please not? That‘s too complicated!
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Why Russians say 🔥 It‘s burning🔥 when they‘re angry
🔻 In Russian, the verb подгорает (3rd person sg) [pad-ga-ra-yet] SLT: it‘s getting burnt - is used for two very different situations:
1) The literal: Food burning on the stove.
• У меня подгорает ужин!
My dinner is burning!
2) The slang: Someone is furious or getting intensely annoyed about something. The phrase is usually used with preposition У + personal pronoun in Gen.case: у него / неё (he/she is getting angry), and translates to he/she's getting mad.
• У него подгорает, когда он видит это!
He gets so mad when he sees that!
🔻 How did this slang meaning develop? When you‘re so angry that you‘re literally overheating, the feeling is compared to food burning on a hot stove. 😡
So next time you see someone getting really angry, you can say:
• Ого, как у тебя подгорает!
Wow, you‘re getting really annoyed!
А что подгорает у вас, товарищи😉 ?
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1) The literal: Food burning on the stove.
• У меня подгорает ужин!
My dinner is burning!
2) The slang: Someone is furious or getting intensely annoyed about something. The phrase is usually used with preposition У + personal pronoun in Gen.case: у него / неё (he/she is getting angry), and translates to he/she's getting mad.
• У него подгорает, когда он видит это!
He gets so mad when he sees that!
So next time you see someone getting really angry, you can say:
• Ого, как у тебя подгорает!
Wow, you‘re getting really annoyed!
А что подгорает у вас, товарищи
#spoken_Russian
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Ice cream that doesn't melt while you walk along Nevsky? Almost!
🤩 New spot in St. Petersburg turns dessert into a show. Не тай (54 Nevsky Ave.) — the name plays two ways:
• не тай [ni tay] Don't melt! (liquid nitrogen helps!);
• не Тай [ni tay] (it's) not Thai (because this isn't Thailand, but the heart of the Russian famous city).
🤩 The highlight: serving in a cloud of liquid nitrogen. The chef pours the base, it freezes instantly, vapor billows up, and you get fresh ice cream to take on your stroll.
🤩 Flavours: classic vanilla, salted caramel, berry sauces. Each portion feels like a mini-performance – guests film it, and the vibe is more sweets-lab than takeaway stand.
🤩 Not just dessert – a real gastro-show. While waiting, you'll snap pics, gasp, and even catch a chill from the spectacular vapour 🤤 .
📍Geolocation: 54 Nevsky Ave, St Petersburg.
Video: @piter_na_vkus
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• не тай [ni tay] Don't melt! (liquid nitrogen helps!);
• не Тай [ni tay] (it's) not Thai (because this isn't Thailand, but the heart of the Russian famous city).
📍Geolocation: 54 Nevsky Ave, St Petersburg.
Video: @piter_na_vkus
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It stands 74 meters tall!
• Прокатимся?
Shall we go for a ride?
❤️ - Yes!
🥲 - I'm afraid of heights.
Video: Tadam - top events in St. Petersburg
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