Need Gas?

Airship pumping station at Komendantsky airfield near Leningrad

Used during Graf Zeppelin's Arctic Flight

1931

Advertising on a Tram

Millions read it every day

Cost-efficient. Rational.

Dmitry Bulanov

1926

City of the Future

Lev Rudnev

1925

Source

Aerohydrodynamics

TsAGI (Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute) building

Radio Street, Moscow

Architects: A. Kuznetsov, V. Movchan, G. Movchan, L. Meylman

1925-1934

A 1970s photograph via oldmos.ru

Engineer Strong

The Stenberg brothers

A poster for The Project of Engineer Strong*

1929

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* The Project of Engineer Strong is the Russian title for Not for Publication (1927), directed by Ralph Ince

Water Tower

Architect: Yakov Chernikhov

1930

By vorobiew @ Flickr

Electricity and Hot Water

Hotel Moskva, Moscow

Electric switchboard (above),

boiler room (below)

1930s

Gears!

Alexander Rodchenko

1929

Gelatin-silver print
28.8 x 23 cm
Private collection
© Rodchenko’s Archive /
2011, ProLitteris, Zurich

via Art Blart

Energetical Propaganda

Cover art: Varvara Stepanova

1931

via paul.malon @ Flickr

Heavy Seagull

ANT-44 (TsAGI-44, MTB-2) heavy torpedo bomber

It was an amphibian with a retractable wheeled undercarriage, and the floats, mounted near the wingtips on struts, were load-carrying. Powerplants were four Gnome- Rhone 14Krsds, which gave 810hp each, and were conventionally mounted in the wing leading edges. The wings' shape resulted in the ANT-44, as the project was designated, being called the Chaika (Seagull).

 

Info: Virtual Aircraft Museum

Sky Hoppers

Dobrolet airline ad by Alexander Rodchenko

1923

A-40 Flying Tank

Yes, it's April Fools' Day, but...

In 1942, a T-60 light tank was converted into a glider intended to be towed by a Pe-8 or TB-3 heavy bomber/transport. The tank was lightened for air use by removing armament, ammunition and headlights, and leaving a very limited amount of fuel. It was fitted with biplane wings and twin-boom tail, designed by Oleg Antonov.

A TB-3 bomber had to ditch the glider during its only flight, on September 2, 1942, to avoid crashing, due to the T-60's extreme drag (although the tank reportedly glided smoothly). The A-40 was piloted by the famous Soviet experimental glider pilot Sergei Anokhin. The T-60 landed on a field near the airdrome, and after dropping the glider wings and tail, the driver returned it to its base. Due to the lack of sufficiently-powerful aircraft to tow it at the required 160 km/h (99 mph), the project was abandoned.

Source: Wiki

Airship, Front View

Ivan Shagin. V6 (СССР В-6) semi-rigid airship

1936

Small & Amphibious

The 3-ton T-37A was the first mass-produced fully amphibious tank. Lightly armored, armed by a 0.3-in machine gun and powered by a 40-hp petrol engine, it was equipped with cork-filled floats. In 1933-1936, 2552 T-37A’s were produced.

Industrial Propaganda

A cover of Komsomol* and Electrification magazine

1932

Source: Russian Art and Books

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* Komsomol = Young Communist League

Glass Top & Bridge

Simon Friedland

GUM Department Store

Moscow, 1930

Two Designs

Palace of the Soviets, Moscow:

open design contest, early 1930s

By A. Zhukov and D. Chechulin

by A. Dushkin and J. Doditsa

Socialist Cameras

Buy Photography Bonds!

Photo cameras for the Socialist construction!

1931

Lighter Than (Cold) Air

An observation blimp, launched in the Leningrad front

A. Konstantinov archive via Waralbum

Double Exposure

 Georgiy Petrusov. A portrait of Alexander Rodchenko

c. 1934