Tag Archives: Russia

House with 30,000 plastic bottle caps, made by Olga Kostina in Kamarchaga, Russia. Designboom wrote about it in 2014.

The flags of the Chuvash Republic (top) and Nagorno-Karabakh. Or as they are also known: Чăваш Республики and Լեռնային Ղարաբաղի Հանրապետություն.

More texty flags here.

Mordvalaisten pukuja kuoseja, 1896. A book of traditional Mordvin costume patterns from Russia. via

Linkor Tower Moscow, photo by Frank Herfort via betaknowledge.

The Melnikov House by architect Konstantin Melnikov (1920s)

IT-People who changed the world. ASCII calendar by Michael Chereda, 2012.

Square kufic signatures from 1325, up to today. More images and info here.

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Pretty big text-mode success! Seems to be the москва институт гидропроект.

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The time of rain by Crasher/Just-X, 2003.

Artistic Embroidery (Художественная вышивка), a book edited by L. Ya. Razutova (Л. Я. Разутовой) in 1963. Soviet artistic folk embroidery patterns. Images from an Ebay auction. More info (in Russian) here.

Post updated in 2024.