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Inclement Character Design sheets.

1. Anastasius Nulesmurt - 24, Soviet Russian Sergeant, ethnic Udmurt, grew up as a shepherd boy on a collective farm in Kama-Vatkya.
2. Yakov Rimsky Ovechkin- 21, A private, nicknamed “Ovechka”, meaning Lamb, by his regiment. The son of Aristocrats from Petrograd/Leningrad, he spent his entire life in a gulag until being conscripted into the army.
3. Lieutenant Volkov - 28, a political officer and Bolshevik intellectual who graduated from Moscow State University. Likely indoctrinated by politically active parents.
4. Anastasius Nulesmurt as a child, in Udmurt folk dress.

my notes pt2

On 7 November 1922, the Soviet composer Arseny Avraamov staged one of the most unusual musical events of the twentieth century: the Symphony of Sirens, performed not by an orchestra but by an entire industrial city. The work took place in the port of Baku to mark the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution. From a specially constructed tower overlooking the harbor, Avraamov conducted the city itself, signaling performers with colored flags and field telephones while coordinating a vast network of mechanical and human sound sources.

The performance mobilized nearly every noise-producing element of the industrial port. Factory sirens, ship horns, locomotive whistles, artillery batteries, machine-gun units, hydroplanes, and the foghorns of the entire Caspian flotilla were integrated into a coordinated sonic spectacle. Military bands and mass choirs were also included, performing revolutionary songs such as The Internationale, La Marseillaise, and Warszawianka. Cannon shots served as timing signals, triggering different sections of the composition across the city’s factories, docks, railways, and harbor.

A central element of the piece was a device invented for the event called the Magistral, an instrument consisting of around fifty steam whistles mounted on pipes and controlled by multiple performers like the keys of a keyboard. Additional ensembles operated locomotive whistles and mechanical horns positioned across the port, turning Baku’s industrial infrastructure into a distributed orchestra.

The symphony culminated in a massive collective chord produced by steam whistles, sirens, bells, and artillery fire, echoing across the city and far beyond its harbor. Although Avraamov attempted a second performance in Moscow in 1923, the Baku event remained the most ambitious realization of the concept: a work in which urban machinery, military hardware, and crowds were fused into a single coordinated musical performance.

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The Villagers, Shurga 1950s

У кого-нибудь есть ко мне вопросы? :3

Does anyone have any questions for me? :3

Flight mechanic of the Mi-8 helicopter of the 239th Separate Helicopter Squadron of the Air Force of the 40th Combined Arms Soviet Army, Lieutenant Anatoly Lebed. Afghanistan, late 1980s.

From Wondrous Ships

by Svyatoslav Sakharnov

First printing 1975, Second printing 1981

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty,_Saint_Petersburg
• ШМ = ШТАМПМЕТ

In a leafy park of Gurzuf, Crimea, a statue of Vladimir Lenin stands quietly among the paths and trees. The monument, created by Soviet sculptors, rises from the greenery near the buildings of a Gurzuf sanatorium park, a garden first laid out in the early 19th century.

Here, Lenin appears less like a distant political icon and more like an unexpected resident of the garden—watching over benches, winding paths, and visitors strolling through the shade. Framed by cypress and sea air, the statue blends Soviet history with the calm rhythm of a seaside park, a reminder of how politics and everyday landscapes once intertwined across Crimea.

Girls sunbathe on the beach on the banks of the Neva River near the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Leningrad, 1930s.

This

Fans on their way to a football match. Moscow, 1930.

В.А. Позднов “На буровой”. 1974
V.A. Pozdnov “At the drilling site”. 1974

Baku

Azerbaijan, Soviet Union

1939

Остался артефакт после похода в музей “мусора”

11.04.2026

A Belarusian peasant being flogged by Polish legionnaires in the occupied territory of Soviet Russia during the Polish-Soviet War, 1920.

A saleswoman with briquettes of butter in a rural grocery store. USSR, 1958.

LET US BUILD A SQUADRON OF AIRSHIPS IN THE NAME OF LENIN!

Kibadin G. V.

Poster in belarusian and russian

Moscow-Leningrad, 1931

IZOGIZ publishing house

Foreman of the Moscow factory “Hammer and Sickle,” Matvei Ivanovich Shkitin, calls home on New Year’s Day. His grandfather, Ivan, toasts the young man: “To your health, to your new successes!” Matvei pledges, “We will not let our honor down!” Ogonyok was a mass-circulation illustrated Soviet weekly.

Огонёк. (Ogonyok) Issue 1. 1952.

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