Disaster has struck ! Lost posts in the blog from Januari till now ! I can’t get them back neither as the host 🙁 Have no idea what happend, have to make a better backup plan to avoid something like this in the future ! I apologize !
Vostok four-cylinder developed by the Soviet Union to take on MV Augusta. Test stands showed more horsepower.
See main article: Vostok – an Unsolved Crime
The Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р, romanized: Holodomor, IPA: [ɦolodoˈmɔr];[2] derived from морити голодом, moryty holodom, ‘to kill by starvation’)
Awfull story from the past ! Caused when a dictator wanted both to replace Ukraine’s small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority.
Crew Mikhail Tyulenev / Leonid Kursov (IMZ) Class 650 cm3. Irbit Sverdlovsk Oblast 1980s.
Photo by Vasily Shcheylovd.
Source: Andrey Spitsyn
Once, an old acquaintance told me that they looked at motorcycle racers in leather suits in the early nineteen fifties – as if they would look the same at aliens now.
In fact, it looks beautiful. Yes, ordinary people dressed then in those years, so-so.
The photo shows the champions of the USSR DOSAAF in motorsport in 1951.
From left to right: Fedor Erastov, Oleg Mikhailov, G. Khristoforov, Galina Konovalova (all – Moscow), M. Izotova (Lithuanian SSR), Victor Drobitsky, A. Karpov (USSR), Sergei Kadushkin (Leningrad).
23 September, 1951. Photo by Valentin Khukhlaev.
This is a 7 inch glass fruit bowl, speckled reds, blues, greens and yellows, purples even. Whilst its adequacy is very questionable and not exactly legal, but absolutely spectacular when lit. A rare find these days if any still exist. i wish this photo was in colour… B&W just doesn’t do it justice. Imagine rolling into a rally with this gem on high beam.