"Light Monument to the Revolution"
10 facts about Grigori Ghidoni's "Light Monument to the Revolution" project: First fact: Initially it was supposed that the light...
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anastasiakomardina
Nov 10, 20236 min read
Current events through the prism of design
The message of the exhibition The exhibition "THING! Subject conversation" is dedicated to design objects of the XX century and their...
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Artyom Sarazov
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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evgen20041125
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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Султан Азбеков
May 19, 20236 min read
Installation of attractions,or 90 years later
The article "Mounting Attractions" by S.M. Eisenstein was first published in the journal "Lef" in 1923. It was reprinted only once in the...
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Григорий Александров
May 14, 20233 min read
The phenomena of the Zone and the limits of human knowledge in 'Roadside Picnic'
"Picnic by the Side" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is a philosophical fiction novel published in 1972. The work is replete with...
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Verdun [GD]
Apr 27, 20237 min read
Flying motorcycles of the USSR: past and present
Ка-8 In 1947, engineers from the Kamov Design Bureau manufactured one of the first Soviet helicopters, the Ka–8. It was a simple...
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Григорий Плешков
Mar 24, 20233 min read
Secret work of Malevich's receivers.
Exhibition of works by Nikolai Suetin and Ilya Chashnik in Mikhailovsky Castle.
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Чебакова Елизавета
Nov 16, 20229 min read
1967 – THE IDEA OF CREATING A TAPE RECORDER - FOUNTAIN PEN
In the January 1967 issue of the magazine "Young Technician", in the Patent Office section, the idea of creating a tape recorder – a...
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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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Елизавета Иванова
Sep 25, 202222 min read
Group "Collective actions" - "random" finds
The group of conceptual artists "Collective Actions" was created in 1976 and existed for thirteen years. The composition of the...
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igorcadet94
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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Шабалин Александр
May 8, 20228 min read
Камилл в "Далёкой Радуге" Аркадия И Бориса Стругацких
Кратко о романе: Идея произведения пришла в голову Стругацким после того, как они в 1962 посмотрели фильм Стэнли Крамера «На берегу» —...
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igorcadet94
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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vflegentov2076
Apr 17, 20222 min read
Vasiliy Kamenskiy: Reinforced concrete poems
Vasily Vasilievich Kamensky - Russian futurist poet, prose writer, artist. Born April 17, 1984 on a steamer on the Kama River, died...
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IceBeer
Apr 17, 20228 min read
Atoms and the technologies around them. Platonov's "Etheric Path".
The quotations are from Andrei Platonov's work Aether Route, written in 1967. The talented scientist Popov understands that the universe...
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kasmopolitf310
Apr 10, 20228 min read
Andrey Rublev (1966) by Andrey Tarkovsky - 2 episode
Keywords in reviews of Tarkovsky's films are "long", "boring", "difficult". And at the same time, he was and remains the most important...
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troshevkp
Apr 6, 20222 min read
The unique Soviet project of an autonomous floating platform-settlement Meduza-825
In 1949, Soviet scientists under the leadership of Sergey Nikitich Kovalev developed a project for an autonomous floating settlement...
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artemisnnn24
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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Svetlana Butakova
Apr 1, 202210 min read
From the course «Russian Avant-garde» : Abstract and non-objective
How did Russian avant-gardists move to abstractions and try to captivate the whole country with their utopias?
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