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Palekh: from icons to Ilyich's light bulb
In miniatures of the Soviet period, electric light is usually associated with a special significance. The "earthy" origin of electric...
Вадим Мельников
Mar 18, 20226 min read


Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin: “Paper architecture"
Paper architecture is not only a unique artistic phenomenon, it is also a brilliant example of victory over circumstances, turning...

София Латышева
Dec 14, 20213 min read


"Our New World" by Dora Shturman
Dora Shturman is a publicist, literary critic, one of the most famous and respected Sovietologists and researchers of Soviet totalitarianism

mahatomic
May 10, 202112 min read


"Essays on a Growing Ideology" by Viktor Sokirko: "Power of the organism", "State as a machine"
Sokirko Viktor Anatolyevich, born in 1963 Since 1999 - special correspondent, editor of the military department of the Moskovsky...

Niκα
Apr 24, 20219 min read


The nest of "languages" and the image of the language.
A single, common list of " languages” 1. Numeword. Numbername 2. Abstruse language It is impossible to ignore the fact that the word...
prosvirnina2000111
Apr 9, 20215 min read


TIFLIS, 41 degree
Facts "410": 1) "Forty-first degree" ("41 °", "Forty-one degree") - an avant-garde creative group that operated in Tiflis (now Tbilisi)...
burlakaks
Mar 28, 20216 min read


Friedrich Hitzer "Siberian Summer"
"Friedrich Hitzer" Friedrich Hitzer was born on January 9, 1935 in Ulm. In the 1950s, he studied in the United States, in Oklahoma, at...

Храмов Данил
Mar 25, 20213 min read


Useful tips from the Soviet era
A collection of useful tips guided in the realities of everyday life, where razors, fountain pens and fans are unreliable, the necessary...
ponomarenkoka
Mar 18, 202110 min read


Igor Terentyev. A treatise on sheer indecency.
In his typographic masterpiece "A Treatise on Solid Obscenity" I. Terentyev, as a magician, manipulates various fonts, the letters lie on...

Niκα
Mar 16, 202111 min read


What fences are made of in Russia
Recently, more and more suburban areas are fenced with corrugated board - convenient, practical, inexpensive. But it's so boring…. There...

Niκα
Mar 1, 20216 min read


Repair Society
Published in the journal Emergency Stock, no.2, 2004 The practice of repairing things is more or less characteristic of any society. ...
ponomarenkoka
Feb 27, 202113 min read


MIKHAIL KURTOV Russia and Europe: breakdowns and repairs
"In the Russian cultural context, technical issues, all kinds of breakdowns and repairs are much more interesting than rational...

Niκα
Feb 18, 202110 min read
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