Hey, I’m on the CNN website. They wanted to have a foreigners view on Moscow. I’ve said some bad things about the city as well, but when shortening the article they must have cut them out. Well, better than the usual Russia bashing in the foreign media.
Anyway, read yourself (on CNN):
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/05/moscow.localview/index.html
Helipro is the leading Russian tour operator for heli skiing and heli-boarding trips. They organize trips to the Caucasus, Kamchatka, but also to Antarctica. Yes, you read right – heliboarding in Antarctica. They go there with a Russian ice-breaker, which has a heli on board. Be aware, if your are thinking this trip is the usual $4000 heli boarding trip, than you are wrong. They only do it once a year and it comes for a premium price that buys you a mid-sized car.
Anyway, helipro offers trips not only to the Russian regions and territory, but also to Greenland, New Zealand, the Andes and Nepal. Some of the most famous Russian sports photographers are steady visitors on these trips. Heli-Pro collected the nicest of their shots and displays them in a show at Winzavod on the upcoming weekend. My friend Andrey Pirumov shows his work there along with Andrey Kamenev, Vitalius Mikhaylov and Maxim Balakhovskiy.
This weekend, from June 15th to 17th you can see this exhibition in Moscow at studio “ELEVEN” Vinzavod. After this it will travel through Eastern European cities like Prague, Vilnius, Riga and Bratislava. The exhibition shows the wide glaciers of Greenland and New Zealand, the sparkling snow of Uzbekistan and the majestic volcanoes of Kamchatka. Those of you who can’t see this exhibition can see some of these beautiful shots on HeliPros website: http://www.helipro.ru/new/fv2/vistav/
All photos are copyrighted by the photographers and helipro.ru
Address:
Studio Eleven
Exhibition June 15th to 17th open from 12 – 20:00
Art-center “Winzavod�
4-th Syromyatnicheskiy pereulok, 1. str. 6
Metro: Kurskaya
http://www.helipro.ru
I just received these images of Putins new transport. Now you know, why he has been travelling so much lately. Its like, when I got my new Playstation. I also spent a lot of time with it, until I got tired of it. By the way, apparently the interior of his new Russian Air Force One was made in England.
Il-96 300 of the Russian President Putin
I found some more info on http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com:
Construction of this plane, the equivalent of America’s “Air Force One”, started in Voronezh several years ago.A Bristol firm “Diamonite Aircraft Furnishings” has won a £10m contract to refurbish the Russian presidential plane.
“All technical information on the closed project is a state secret,” Russian NTV Mir television told viewers. Well, now’s the time to show you the first leaked-out pictures of the top-secret interior.
The new Il-96 from the inside
Conference table
I wonder who irons Vladimirs shirts up there. His wife? Or his body guards?
You’ll find more photos on the following sites:
Some of the photos above are from
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/01/presidential-planes-part-1-putins-new.html
and there you’ll also find information and photos of Putins Mil-Mi 8 helicopter (I find this helicopter technically kind of outdated)
Putins Mil-Mi 8 MTV 1 presidential helicopter from the inside
The other photos are from Avi Abrams Flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/avi_abrams/tags/russianpresidentialplane/
Just found this on the Way To Russia Blog:
The Aeroflot sale only comes twice a year (at the start of spring and the start of autumn) and always features some great bargains. This is a great chance to visit Moscow with return flights from places like Rome and Amsterdam just 149 euros. But one of the best deals is London to Moscow return for just 99GBP. If you’re living in Moscow this is the chance for a holiday to places like Kiev for 99 euros return, London, Paris or Madrid for 199 euros return, Beijing or Shanghai for 299 euros return, or Toronto for 349 euros return. more…
http://blogs.waytorussia.net/item/65
I tried to make arial photos of Moscow for the longest time and even though I fly in and out at least once a month, either the weather is bad or we are coming into the airport from the wrong directions. Recently I shot some nice ones when I came back from Hamburg, which I will post soon, but before have a look at these amazing photos, which were taken mostly inflight by the SIBIR pilot Alexey Kochemasov (known as pilot Lekh) and posted on his private website. By the way, the airline should pick that up. What better advertising can they get. If you want to see more, visit his website and his livejournal:
http://www.letchikleha.info/
http://letchikleha.livejournal.com/
Here are some of his photos and if you like, you can go and visit his exhibition:
6-25 марта 2007года по адреÑ?у: г.моÑ?ква. ГоголевÑ?кий бульвар 8 ” Фотоцентр” Ñ?оюза журналиÑ?тов.
http://www.avia.ru/events/2007/nebomoe.shtml
http://www.avia.ru/forum/7/7/4066353388735995949651164724577_1.shtml
Its from the March 6th – 25th 2007 at Gogolevsky Bulevard 8 in the “photocenter” showroom of the Journalist Union.
A newly leased Boeing 737 of S7 Sibir.
All photos are from Alexey Kochemasov
Here is the exhibition:
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