roomthily

Plosky Tolbachik, Kamchatka, Nov 27, 2012

via English Russia

population of Russia from 1500 to 2000. in crochet.

via RUSSIAN SPHINX

The main adventages of this method of data visualization is:
- it’s environment friendly, you don’t need electricity
- it’s cat-entertaining
- cold-protective
- easy to create

brianlucid:

A collection of vintage infographics from Soviet era Russia. 

Lake Baikal

via English Russia

Vladimir Lukyanov’s water computer, 1936, “the world’s first computer for solving [partial] differential equations.” 

via Pruned

illuminated model of downtown St. Petersburg at the Museum of Water

via English Russia

water levels in St. Petersburg, marked with the year in the corner of each piece of glass (from the Museum of Water, St. Petersburg, Russia)

via English Russia

Elections-Violations Map (Golos) - a crowdsourced election-violations map for the recent Parliamentary elections 

via iRevolution

reaction to the map - “mapping dots is a disease on the map of Russia” (from a pro-Kremlin activist video)

To the stars! (matchbox cover, USSR, c. 1960)

via We Made This Ltd