In miniatures of the Soviet period, electric light is usually associated with a special significance. The "earthy" origin of electric...

Paper architecture is not only a unique artistic phenomenon, it is also a brilliant example of victory over circumstances, turning...

Dora Shturman is a publicist, literary critic, one of the most famous and respected Sovietologists and researchers of Soviet totalitarianism

Sokirko Viktor Anatolyevich, born in 1963 Since 1999 - special correspondent, editor of the military department of the Moskovsky...

A single, common list of " languages” 1. Numeword. Numbername 2. Abstruse language It is impossible to ignore the fact that the word...

Facts "410": 1) "Forty-first degree" ("41 °", "Forty-one degree") - an avant-garde creative group that operated in Tiflis (now Tbilisi)...

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

A collection of useful tips guided in the realities of everyday life, where razors, fountain pens and fans are unreliable, the necessary...

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

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

Published in the journal Emergency Stock, no.2, 2004 The practice of repairing things is more or less characteristic of any society. ...

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