Jdm drift Saint-Petersburg//Phonk

Jdm drift Saint-Petersburg//Phonk
PITERSKOE MYASO

Impressive. JDM stands for Japanese Domestic Market, refers to vehicles originally manufactured and sold in Japan. Via RT

Peter the Great

Peter the Great Statue, Moscow, Russia

I'm reading a story about UFOs in Russia and there is a map, but all the labels are in Russian. 

St. Petersburg Russia Ring Road

So I go to Google Maps and look at St. Petersburg and I see there are a couple of very long bridges across the bay (Gulf of Finland). So I go looking for the story about how they came to be. Not finding much, I go to B1M, where I don't find much except a video about BIM (Building Information Modeling) in Russia and a view of this statue appears. I think that's the weirdest statue I've ever seen. Also very cool. Naturally there are a bunch of ignorant fools who don't like it, but that's always the way it is whenever anybody does anything cool.

Antique Nuclear Submarine

The Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, Leninsky Komsomol, is transported from a pier to a museum in the city of Kronstadt, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on October 12, 2022.

It was launched in 1957 which makes it 75 years old. It weighs 3,000 tons which is like 1/6 of what a Trident missile sub weighs. It has a beam of 25 feet which means the top of the sail in this picture looks to be about 50 feet from the ground.

Silver Skates

Silver Skates (Trailer)
SPM MUSIC GROUP

It's pretty much a fairy tale woven together from elements of several stories, including fast and fancy ice skating (Hans Brinker), a gang of pickpockets (Oliver Twist) who are living on an abandoned sailing ship (Peter Pan). A poor boy and a rich girl happen to meet and in a tale as old as Hollywood, proceed to disregard all the sage advice of their elders, believe love will triumph all, and the script writers make it happen. There was a moment when we thought this might be an actual Russian story when the boy dies, but then he wakes up, 'returns from the dead' the doctor says, so we can have our Hollywood ending.

It's set in 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The scenes are great. We have scenes on the ice in the canals through town, which serve as roadways during the winter, and scenes of the city and the palaces.

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907), father of the modern Periodic Table, makes a couple of appearances. Seems our girl is a budding chemist and wants to study at the university instead of marrying the handsome, brave, strong nobleman her parents have picked out for her.

Our hero has some very fancy ice skates that his father picked up in Amsterdam. I looked for a picture but I didn't have any luck. If I watched the entire film over again, I might be able to find a shot or two, but it's two hours long, and I'm busy. Busy, very busy.

Pic of the Day

Neva River seen from the Bolshoy Obukhovsky Bridge in St Petersburg, Russia

Bordertown got me looking at St. Petersburg and this photo turned up. Pretty cool I think.

Pic of the Day

St. Petersburg, Russia

Cruiser Aurora

Russian Cruiser Aurora moved to dockyard in St. Petersburg two weeks ago for overhaul.

Time lapse video of the move. Cool Russian tune.

The cruiser fired the opening shots of the revolution in 1917. The revolution will no longer be the main topic of the museum.

Cool New Map Stuff

Savior of the Spilled Blood Church (lower left), St. Michael's Castle (lower right) and Field of Mars formal gardens (top center) in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Someone has put together a website of old WW2 German aerial photographs of Russia. It's all in Russian, and Google translate doesn't help much. I was able to find St. Petersburg because the alternate name (Leningrad) is in parentheses, and parentheses are the same in both English and Russian. It's pretty cool because you can switch back and forth between these old WW2 aerial photos and current satellite images and maps, much like Google Maps, so you can compare.

Google Maps offers photos of places on the map, and if there are a bunch of photos, it will stream them to your screen, one after another, shifting and zooming so your point of view remains the same, or as much as it can. I suspect a few whiz kids got their doctorates developing this. Or maybe it's the work of just one crank working away in his basement. Not me, I didn't do it.

KLIMOV Aero Engine Design Company

I seem to be on a bit of a Russian kick the last couple of days. I thought this video is a nice counterpoint to the Rolls-Royce story I posted a couple of weeks ago. You don't need any Russian to understand the video, the soundtrack is entirely music, no speaking. Kilmov is in St. Petersburg.