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Russia is about to launch a satellite that will shine as brightly as a star

Russia is slated to launch a reflective satellite later this summer that, in theory, will shine from the sky brighter than any other star.

Called Mayak, which translates to “Beacon” or “Lighthouse” in English, the satellite is “roughly the size of a loaf of bread” and will launch on Friday, July 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz-2 rocket.

Once the small satellite is 370 miles into orbit, it will deploy a pyramid-shaped solar reflector that is designed to capture the sun’s rays and bounce them back to Earth, creating the effect of a twinkling star to Earthlings. Read more (6/29/17)

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[zloygorod]

Richard Galpin went to St Petersburg to look at the kind of specialised equipment Russia is already building to make it possible to operate in the extreme Arctic conditions.

[country-ussr]

СССР.

[communicants]

Letters From A Dead Man (Konstantin Lopushansky, 1987)

[finofilipino]

¿Os acordáis de estas burbujas de gas bajo el césped en Siberia?

Pues la cosa se está empezando a descontrolar:

[…] Otro estudio, este en el 2013, encontró que un aumento de la temperatura global del 1,5 °C sería suficiente para iniciar un período sin precedentes de fusión. Ocurre que gracias a los veranos anormalmente calurosos vinculados al cambio climático, los investigadores locales sospechan que esto ya está empezando a ocurrir, con temperaturas diarias en aquel julio del año pasado que llegaban a los 35 °C. […]

¿Da para peli o no da para peli?

[zloygorod]

in the “zona” where strange physical laws apply

[ozu-teapot]

Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979

[spaceexp]

Cosmonaut Valeriy V. Polyakov, aboard Russia’s Mir space station, looks out Mir’s window during rendezvous operations with the Space Shuttle Discovery .

by NASA on The Commons

[lottereinigerforever]

Anthony Perkins on the set of “The Trial” by Roger Corbeau

[istmos]

Lotte Jacobi, Chorus with Ernst Busch, circa 1930

[ozu-teapot]

Hard to Be a God | Aleksey German | 2013

[zloygorod]

St. Petersburg: Russia's City of Rebels - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International

St. Petersburg is a place of protest against power -- and the only major Russian city in which the opposition still has a voice. Why?

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)

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Sergei Parajanov, The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova), 1968. 

[cspark]

A Russian tank manufacturer has unveiled a new tram design that it plans to start mass-producing in 2015. These beautiful pieces of engineering will hold 190 to 270 passengers and will be able to traverse on even the older, worn out Russian tram tracks.

Read more about the so-called “Batmobile” trams…

[raysofcinema]

ANDREI RUBLEV (1966)

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Cinematography by Vadim Yusov

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Travel Soviet Union postcard (vintage reproduction) - Crimea 1930s http://ift.tt/2gxG71f

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Самоедский мальчик (Samoyed Boy)

the works of: Brumberg sisters, Olga Khodatayeva, Nikolai Khodataev animated short film history Release: 1928 Country: Soviet Union Director: Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, Olga Khodatayeva, Nikolai Khodataev

A boy in the Arctic named Chu singlehandedly defeats a polar bear. However, the village’s greedy shaman steals the bear when Chu brings it home. For revenge, Chu ruins the shaman’s show, revealing his fakery. The shaman casts Chu out to sea, where he is picked up by a Soviet ship. He then lives and studies in Leningrad, but always thinks about the North.

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Samoyed Boy is available on YouTube.