Prince Saint Vladimir – The World’s First and Only Chapel Boat
The Prince Saint Vladimir is basically an old boat converted into a floating church that could make the sacred relics on board accessible to people in remote areas along the Volga River. This isn’t the world’s first floating church, communities living on water have built plenty of them all around the world, but the Prince […]
Russian Builds House Shaped Like Noah’s Ark
Nikolay Orekhov, from the village of Kemerovo, eastern Russia, has built his house to look like a miniature replica of Noah’s ark. Not that he’s ever seen the real thing, but we’ve all been blessed with an imagination. 47-year-old Nikolay Orekhov has spent more than a year working on his unusual house shaped like some […]
Russian Woman Builds Glass Bottle House
The glass bottle house built by Olga Queen, from Novoshakhtinsk, Russia is a fine addition to our hefty collection of glass bottle architecture, which already includes various bottle houses and a unique bottle temple. In an effort to build herself a house out of cheap and environment-friendly materials, Olga Queen spent six months collecting glass […]
Russian WW2 Enthusiast Builds His Very Own Armored Division
Vyacheslav Veryovochkin, a village craftsman from Russia’s Novosibirsk area, has become famous for building exact replicas of various World War 2 armored vehicles, in his own garage. Vyacheslav Veryovochkin began constructing WW2 vehicles a few years ago, when he got his hands on the plans of a Lend-Lease Studebaker truck. With only some basic tools […]
Russian Geek Shows Off His Processor Collection
It’s official people, the world’s biggest geek has been located in Russia. Sporting a collection of over 1,000 computer processors, this dude has no competition. If someone actually made a top of the geekiest things a man can collect, I’m positive computer processors would be somewhere in the top three. So it feels only natural […]
The Suzdal Cucumber Festival
Cucumbers may be just every day vegetables to you, but in the Russian town of Suzdal they are of such importance that they have their own yearly festival. The first cucumbers were cultivated in the Suzdal area, around 500 years ago, and some locals even consider the popular vegetable inherently Russian. The people here consider […]
Russian Cult Worships Female Cartoon Character
I’m sure we can all agree Gadget Hackwrench is an adorable character, but do you like her enough to worship her like a goddess? If you’ve never heard of the cute Gadget Hackwrench, she is a Disney character from the Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers cartoon series. This female mouse was the team’s pilot, mechanic […]
Till Death Do Us Part? Russian Couple Has Zombie Wedding
Vitalich and Jirka are a young couple who decided to have their very own special wedding, as zombies. I guess not even death can split-up these two. Believe it or not, this is the couple’s third wedding so far. Every time they married each other. It sounds strange, I know, but they have reasonably good […]
600-Kilogram Hero Book on Display in Russia
In order to better familiarize the people of Chelyabinsk (the city that brought us the human smiley face) with the tragedies and heroes of World War II, local authorities have created a giant Hero Book. 6 meters long, 3 meters wide and weighing around 600 kilograms, the Hero Book of Chelyabinsk contains photos of the […]
Make Art, Not War
I guess it’s true what they say, guns really don’t kill people, they can actually be used to create original works of art. Come May 21, The Rusian city of Perm will be hosting an important exhibition of modern Ukrainian art, called YAKSCHO. It aims to reflect the situation in this country: productively unstable, full […]
Russian Craftsman Builds Himself a Castle
Ever since I started this blog I’ve been amazed at what amazing things ordinary people can achieve, if they put their minds to it. And this old Russian craftsman is just another perfect example. Vladimir Filippovich must have really wanted to be a king, and live in a palace. His desire was so strong that […]
Russia’s Super Car Hits the Streets
Presented at the beginning of 2009, Marussia has finally hit the streets of Russia, and we have the pics to prove it. You’re probably wondering what a car has to do with an oddities blog, but i figured it’s not every day you see a super car that’s made in Russia. We first reported on […]
Mosquito Monument Found in Russian Village
If this thing was for real, you’d need a lot more than a can of Raid, to hold on to your blood. Back in 2007, Biologists from the Tyumen Regional Museum, who were examining the Noyabrsk area, for creating an eco-tourism route, for kids, stumbled across what they considered the most bizarre find, in their […]
Russians Blow Up Their Own Weapons
Russia’s blow-up weapons might seem funny, but they play a crucial role in the country’s strategy to keep their real arsenal hidden from prying eyes. The inflatable decoys were commissioned by the Russian government, to protect their real military capabilities from surveillance satellites. The company making them, Rusbal, says they imitate the heat signature of […]
Russian Cows Get to Watch TV
They’re probably going to end up in someone’s burger, but at least these guys can say they’ve lived a happy life. A Russian farmer learned that happy cows are more productive, so he decided to buy some state of the art LED TVs (not sure if they’re HD) so the cows can have something to […]