USSR automotive legends. Sports cars

The biographies of sports automobiles are packed with adventures and danger. They've seen roads of every kind. At a frenzied pace, they've hurtled through counries and across continents. These auto-athletes have mastered thousands of kilometers. At the museum of retro automobiles on Rogozhsky Val in Moscow, you can see the most famous sports crs of the 20th century, learn the histories of their triumphs, and discover some fascinating facts.

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USSR automotive legends. Sports cars
Catching Predatory Fish on the Volga River

Residents of Astrakhan say that those that have ever gone fishing in the Volga River will be hooked and definitely come back. It is no surprise that they think like this. In just one day in the lower rivers of the Volga people catch not only a lot of fish, but a lot of different types of them. With no trouble at all fishermen catch perch, feel how pike perch fight back against the line and struggle against the mighty northern pike. And all of this just in one fishing trip! While fishing on a river boat people can gather quite the collection of trophies from the Volga – pike perch, northern perch and catfish. Catching these fish doesn’t have to require too much effort either if you try trolling. The Volga River, the largest river in Europe, is so big that creatures that do not normally live in the same environments find themselves living side by side, making the fishing all the more rew...

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Catching Predatory Fish on the Volga River
Svetlana Miller — parachutist

If nothing in life seems to be going right, turn to the sky and it will show you just how to regain faith in yourself. There, far above us all at a height of 5,000 metres, we can find a cloudy kingdom full of silence and tranquility. In this transparent sea of blue, sorrows disappear and are replaced by unrestrained delight and amazement. No one has found this to be truer than Svetlana Miller, record holder in the women’s parachuting event at the Pearl of Russia competition. She first visited the aerodrome after going through a divorce from her husband and parachuting helped her to get through this difficult time. After her jumps she couldn’t stop smiling or dreaming about when she would next conquer the skies and was distracted from worrying about her personal life. Now Svetlana regularly sails through the heavens, looking at the world through the clouds. She is also prepa...

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Svetlana Miller — parachutist