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Oct 26, 202315 min read

USSR ROBOT CONTEST

All-union competition for the best design of a humanoid robot How it all started The idea of the contest originated with Vasily...

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Atomic heart. References and curious objects related to the culture and technology

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May 22, 202318 min read

Atomic heart. References and curious objects related to the culture and technology

The recently released game from the post-Soviet studio Mundfish was able to impress society and even before the release, tens of...

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"Big Fires" is a Soviet "collective novel" by 25 writers

Дарья Власевская

Nov 7, 202222 min read

"Big Fires" is a Soviet "collective novel" by 25 writers

"Big fires" preface by Bykov. Dmitry Lvovich Bykov is a Russian writer, poet, journalist, radio and TV presenter. In 1926, the...

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Peace or death. Stories about the consequences of nuclear accidents in Soviet literature.

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May 18, 202220 min read

Peace or death. Stories about the consequences of nuclear accidents in Soviet literature.

А. P. Kazantsev. "Explosion" 1946. A story about a theoretical physicist who claims that the Tunguska meteorite was a phenomenon caused...

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The whole universe smells of oil. "Pelevin's Macedonian Criticism of French Thought.

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May 4, 202214 min read

The whole universe smells of oil. "Pelevin's Macedonian Criticism of French Thought.

The protagonist of the story is the Tatar businessman Nasykh Nasratullovich Nafikov, known by the nickname Kika, the son of an oil...

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How the design of Meyerhold's play «The generous cuckold» worked

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Apr 1, 202212 min read

How the design of Meyerhold's play «The generous cuckold» worked

The premiere of «The generous cuckold» took place in Moscow on April 25, 1922. This French farce of Krommelink, prepared by Meyerhold and...

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ARTIST'S DIARY. BLUE SUN. (GEORGY YAKULOV, 1914)

Шабалин Александр

Apr 1, 20229 min read

ARTIST'S DIARY. BLUE SUN. (GEORGY YAKULOV, 1914)

Peter Konchalovsky - portrait of Georgy Yakulov, 1910 If compare the morning with any other time of the day, it’s the most moisture, most...

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Zamyatin's predictions in the novel "WE"

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Mar 12, 202211 min read

Zamyatin's predictions in the novel "WE"

In this post I will tell you about those inventions and phenomena that Zamyatin predicted in his novel "We". I will also give the dates...

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Nikolai Fyodorov. The question of brotherhood or kinship...

Сахарова Полина

Dec 16, 202111 min read

Nikolai Fyodorov. The question of brotherhood or kinship...

Resurrection is not progress, but it requires real perfection, true perfection; whereas for what is born, for what happens by itself,...

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"The Capture of the Winter Palace" (1920)

Сахарова Полина

Dec 14, 20215 min read

"The Capture of the Winter Palace" (1920)

"The Capture of the Winter Palace" (1920) artistic reconstruction of the events of October 1917 under the direction of Nikolai Evreinov...

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Images of the cosmos in Soviet everyday life.

Сахарова Полина

Dec 9, 20212 min read

Images of the cosmos in Soviet everyday life.

Space exploration in the 20th century delighted the citizens of the USSR, which is why images related to space were reflected in the...

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"The psychosis of theatricalization" 1910-1920

Сахарова Полина

Dec 9, 20217 min read

"The psychosis of theatricalization" 1910-1920

The revolution strongly influenced the structure of the theater, changes were needed and that time was lucky, it was full of ideological...

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"Marx on artistic restoration" Arvatov B. 2003

Сахарова Полина

Dec 8, 20218 min read

"Marx on artistic restoration" Arvatov B. 2003

Karl Marx "Art, like other areas of life, is now at the stage of an undeniable revolutionary crisis, the content of which is the problem...

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Dec 8, 202118 min read

MAUSOLEUM — PANTHEON OF SOVIT HEROES

Letter from the head of the museum "Our region" A.V. Fomina-Svetlyak of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on the creation of...

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Сахарова Полина

Dec 7, 20212 min read

AVVAKUMOV'S PAPER PROJECTS

1. Flying Proletarian Flying Proletarian- homage to Vladimir Mayakovsky - a swing for open-air exercises. Devised for two teams of...

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Alexander Bogdanov. SCIENCE AND THE PROLETARIAT (1913)

Сахарова Полина

Nov 30, 20214 min read

Alexander Bogdanov. SCIENCE AND THE PROLETARIAT (1913)

The nature of science consists in the fact that it is an organized collective experience of people and serves as an instrument for...

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METHODS OF LABOR AND METHODS OF KNOWLEDGE. Alexander Bogdanov. 1918 (main thoughts)

Elena Kovyazina

Nov 18, 20216 min read

METHODS OF LABOR AND METHODS OF KNOWLEDGE. Alexander Bogdanov. 1918 (main thoughts)

The main quotes: All methods of cognition are grouped into two rows: inductive and deductive, or a series of "guidance" and a series of...

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THEATER OF FUTURISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM IN RUSSIA

София Воликова

Oct 23, 202114 min read

THEATER OF FUTURISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM IN RUSSIA

Avant-gardism developed within a relatively narrow chronological framework. On the one hand, this term emphasizes the revolutionary...

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