During the reconnaissance of equipment depots in Novoozerne village, agents of the Atesh partisan movement discovered occupiers' activity at a abandoned military facility It is known that the military unit called Gorodok-7 remained deserted since the russian occupation of the Crimean peninsula Ukrainian partisans managed to get the coordinates of the site: 45.3949607089 "Fearing strikes by the Defense Forces of Ukraine Our agents recorded a significant number of camouflaged armored vehicles (armoured personnel carriers and KamAZ trucks) at the newly inhabited site," the statement reads russians are also known to be dispersing equipment from a nearby warehouse throughout the site The occupiers set up heated tents used by servicemen "In an attempt to confuse Ukrainian forces the occupiers have placed a large amount of old military equipment in places the Defense Force of Ukraine will have relevant data," the Atesh stated Earlier Defense Express reported that russian occupiers had trained African mercenaries and local teenagers at training ground in Crimea When authorities decided in the 1920s to make Yekaterinburg the industrial powerhouse of the Urals Several prominent architects were dispatched from Moscow and as constructivism was in vogue at the time Yekaterinburg became the capital of the movement Whole neighborhoods were razed to the ground and new ones were built from scratch; many of the neighborhoods were named after their residents’ professions: town of workers called “gorodok chekistov,” with buildings 5-10 stories high The most prominent of the buildings is the white horseshoe-shaped Iset hotel (Prospekt Lenina only some parts of the building can be used but there are plans for a complete restoration After a contemporary art biennale took place there a few years ago the Iset hotel became one of the new symbols of the city Metenkov House is a small photography museum in a wooden mansion that once belonged to Veniamin Metenkov one of the city’s first professional photographers but there are always two or three temporary exhibitions on view with everything from photos by Metenkov himself to cutting-edge contemporary art Don’t miss the antique camera store on the first floor Ulitsa Karla Libknekhta, 36 dommetenkova.ru Since Yekaterinburg is unofficially “the capital of constructivism,” there are plenty of other architectural gems Take an afternoon and just walk around to see what the city has to offer Across the street from the Iset hotel is the City Center shopping mall which used to combine the Construction Workers’ Club and Sverdlovsk Film Studio Today the whole interior is made up of various stores but you can still admire the stunning exterior (Prospekt Lenina formerly the headquarters and printing house for several local newspapers; today it is the home of a night club while the exterior sports the famous constructivist “ribbon” windows (Prospekt Lenina Two other buildings worth checking out on Prospekt Lenina are the Central Post Office (#39) where the first two floors are accessible to the public the former home of the local Communist Party executive committee Right across the City Pond from the Yeltsin Center is the sprawling Dynamo sports complex built in the early 1930s (Ulitsa Vasilia Yeryomina Dynamo includes both a sports club and a stadium and looks like a blue and white ship standing in the docks Unit F (Yacheyka F) is a tiny museum that takes up just one apartment in a constructivist Gorpromural building designed by Moisei Ginzburg the architect behind one of constructivism’s most iconic buildings — the Narkomfin building in Moscow Gorpromural is the only place you can view Ginzburg’s ingenious two-story apartment designs walk down the corridor occupied by local painters and even access the roof if you’re lucky The Unit F museum is open all day on Saturdays and by arrangement the rest of the week You can find plenty of background on Gorpromural construction as well as stories of its original residents many of whom were repressed during Stalin’s purges TICKETS Call ahead or send a message on Facebook Ulitsa Malysheva, 21/1 (dial 38 on intercom) facebook.com/FlatUnitF Kamenniye Palatki (Stone Tents) on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg is the Ural region’s very own Stonehenge Reachable by trams 13 and 15 (on Ulitsa Vysotskogo these rock formations are located in a park that stretches all the way to Lake Shartash The area around the lake is where the remains of the first prehistoric settlements were found The jury’s still out on how much of Stone Tents was formed by nature and how much by human hands There’s still debate even about the name — whether it refers to “tents” or the word polati which means “bunk bed.” This is a popular picnic spot with locals and if the weather is good spend a few hours wandering around the forest It’s also a popular biking area and there are bike rental facilities — be sure to bring your passport It’s a heavy machine production facility that takes up an entire district constructivist ideas about communal housing and living were fully implemented The symbol of Uralmash is the White Tower (Ulitsa Bakinskikh Komissarov 1) a long-legged water tower that looks like something out of “Star Wars.” Other interesting buildings include a combination factory-kitchen (a constructivist term for a self-sufficient cafeteria) and a cultural center (Bulvar Kultury About half of the building was destroyed by a fire with decorated columns and peeling burnt Sienna paint (Ulitsa Mashinostroitelei All of these buildings are within walking distance of the Uralmash metro station Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has designated The Moscow Times as an "undesirable" organization criminalizing our work and putting our staff at risk of prosecution This follows our earlier unjust labeling as a "foreign agent." 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But to continue our work, we need your help please support us monthly starting from just $2 and every contribution makes a significant impact independent journalism in the face of repression Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker By Rowan Hooper “Space and the technological marvels that surround it have an immeasurable resonance on our social and individual consciousness,” Martins says “This is a topic that constantly draws us in but which is perpetually out of reach.” Seeing the spacesuit changing room brought on feelings of excitement and anxiety “Excitement because since the age of 8 I had been obsessed with how spacesuits were stored And anxiety because I knew I would have at most 20 minutes to photograph them and so wanted to make sure I did them justice.” Did he try a suit on The photos can be seen at the Wapping Project Bankside in London until 29 May This article appeared in print under the headline “Cosmic deflation” Russia's Star City is so named not because it is home to movie stars or pop stars the heroes of the Soviet and Russian space programs Today Star City is a sort of space explorer's utopia where cosmonauts of the past and present have lived with their families since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to visit space in 1961 Star City was highly guarded even by Soviet standards the closed urban-type settlement is hidden in the woods some twenty miles northeast of Moscow the need for a cosmonaut training center became evident and so Star City was born And with the arrival of prospective cosmonauts and their families the military facility became a legitimate city and a couple of schools are all within the confines of Star City The site even captured the imagination of sophisticated city-dwellers with rumors of its impressive selection of shops the curtain of secrecy over Star City was lifted and the site was opened to the public visitors could catch a glimpse of the tank where cosmonauts practice their space walks under water or the gigantic centrifuge where the soon-to-be spacemen are swung around at dizzying speeds experiencing forces eight times the force of gravity in the process a handful of companies offer special tours of the facility and visitors can even jump into a mock-up space suit or board a "zero-gravity" flight that simulates weightlessness through a parabolic trajectory But for those who prefer to keep their feet on the ground Star City also offers more down-to-earth activities the cosmonaut simulation experience does not even require you to leave your seat at the planetarium where you can learn to navigate using thousands of stars as your reference the museum of space travel and exploration has an impressive collection of vintage spacesuits capsules charred from reentering the atmosphere which holds a book that is routinely signed by every crew before launch And if you're fortunate enough to visit on the Fourth of July you might experience Star City's celebration at the homes built for NASA personnel in the 1990s Just look for the American-style tract houses among the sea of Khrushchev-era concrete buildings Star City (Zvyozdny Gorodok) is located near Shchyolkovo The nearest airport is Chkalovsky Airport and the nearest rail station is the Tsiolkovskaya stop off the Yaroslavl Railroad This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1 World's oldest and largest space launch facility Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history The small Spanish town that played an important role in a human's first steps on the moon This massive monument honors the first human in space This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco Home of the International Space Hall of Fame This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The oldest serving astronaut of the United States returned to Earth to celebrate his 70th birthday after wrapping up a seven-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS) The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit along with his two Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan's steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday As per the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) the astronauts returned after spending 220 days on board the ISS After spending some time to adjust to gravity who has now spent a total of 590 days in space in four missions while Ovchinin and Vagner will head towards Russia's main space training base in Zvyozdniy Gorodok (Star City) near Moscow The US space agency stated that Pettit was “doing well and in the range of what is expected for him following return to Earth.” Pettit spent his time in space while conducting research about in-orbit metal 3D printing capabilities exploring plant growth under varying water conditions and investigating fire behaviour in microgravity although Pettit is the oldest serving NASA astronaut he is not the oldest person to fly in orbit who flew on a NASA mission at the age of 77 in 1998 Koch of the ISS Expedition 59/60 main crew attends a qualification training session for the upcoming mission to the International Space Station at Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Zvyozdny Gorodok [Star City] Moscow Region; the ISS Expedition 59/60 launch aboard the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is scheduled for March 14 Mikhail Japaridze/TASS (Photo by Mikhail Japaridze\TASS via Getty Images)Getty ImagesSave this storySaveSave this storySaveMOSCOW REGION Mikhail Japaridze/TASS (Photo by Mikhail Japaridze\TASS via Getty Images)Getty ImagesEarlier this month it was announced that the first all-female spacewalk would take place on March 29 35 years after the first woman ever took part in one NASA has made changes to the team line-up on the trip due to the lack of spacesuits to fit the female astronauts This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from Astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain were due to spacewalk (make a trip out of the spacecraft) on a mission this week to replace batteries installed last summer at the International Space Station The full walk has been estimated to take around seven hours Read more: Vogue's Feminist Reading List The space agency announced on March 25 that its plans had changed, “in part” due to a shortage of outerwear. “Koch had been scheduled to conduct this spacewalk with astronaut McClain, in what would have been the first all-female spacewalk,” the space agency said in a statement after consulting with McClain and Hague following the first spacewalk mission managers decided to adjust the assignments due in part to spacesuit availability on the station.” Read more: 5 Young Feminists On What They Really Think About International Women's Day McClain took part in a spacewalk last week “McClain learned during her first spacewalk that a medium-size hard upper torso – essentially the shirt of the spacesuit – fits her best,” the agency said “Because only one medium-size torso can be made ready by Friday This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from Koch will be the 14th woman to take part in a spacewalk – with her male colleague Nick Hague McClain is now “tentatively scheduled” to perform her next one on April 8 The first woman to complete a spacewalk was cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1984 spacewalk teams have either been all-male or male-female 213 spacewalks have been carried out to test new equipment both McClain and Koch were part of the 2013 NASA class that was 50 per cent female Read more: Greatest Feminist Quotes Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 the country began to forcibly remove children from occupied territories assimilating them into Russian life and creating barriers to reunification with their families According to the Ukrainian project Children of War The Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC), an investigative website run from outside the country, published on Monday an extensive report which names the officials involved including members of the family of the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko The investigation finds Belarus to be an accomplice to Russia in the children’s abductions and their subsequent indoctrination in its first warrant in the context of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine the International Criminal Court (ICC) called for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s arrest on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation The abduction of children from the occupied territories to Belarus is not even kept a secret this activity is paid from the ‘Union State’ budget from the state budgets of Russia and Belarus 29 million Russian roubles (at the time equating to nearly €500,000) were allocated from the Union budget for the “rendering of humanitarian assistance” in the occupied territories Some of this money was allocated for the “care” of Ukrainian children in Belarus The Kremlin calls the abduction of children “evacuation” and “rescue” the official press paints a picture according to which the country’s authorities do their utmost so that orphan children would remember “their childhood the way it should be: calm Reportedly abducted children have been sent to the Dubrava camp owned by the giant fertiliser company Belaruskali a Belarusian state-controlled media wrote an article about Dubrava and camps at the Ostroshitsky Gorodok sanitarium the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre in the Minsk region and the Golden Sands sanitarium in the Gomel Region over 2,000 children from Ukraine arrived at those camps since September 2022 “It was possible to bring more than a thousand Ukrainian schoolchildren to Belarus in April-May of this year thanks to the instructions of Alexander Lukashenko,” Belarus Today highlighted BIC obtained a letter signed by Dmitry Mezentsey according to which the hosting of children from Ukraine takes place upon instructions of Putin and Lukashenko Among the institutions involved are the state railroads and charitable foundations such as the Talai Fund owned by Paralympian Aliaksei Talai It is under Talai’s leadership that Ukrainian children are reportedly entertained and ideologically indoctrinated in Belarus “Having received the consent and support of the president we began to work out the possibility of recreation for the children of Donbas in Belarus,” Talai said on the Belarusian state-owned news agency BelTA YouTube channel in June children were taken to the Belarusian Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the security centre of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Pro-government Belarusian media reported that servicemen organised an exhibition of weapons for the Ukrainian children and held for them masterclasses in shooting with military unit 3214 The same unit is known for violent crackdowns on protesters in March 2006 and August 2020 led by former unit commander Dzmitry Paulichenka Concerts were also held for children from the occupied Ukrainian territories They were reportedly hosted by pro-government artists such as the Gruzdev sisters they called the children “chosen ones” and “lucky ones” They also made this statement: “Hope Biden dies And may Putin thrive and take control of all of Ukraine” Some children from Ukraine were taught to play hockey by former star Dzmitry Baskau Another group was sent to watch a match with in which Lukashenko himself was the star hockey player Members of the Lukashenko family are involved in organising events for children who were brought to Belarus through Rostov-on-Don an activist with the pro-government association Patriots of Belarus sister of the president’s son Dzmitry Lukashenko’s wife Anna Dzmitry Lukashenko is also involved in the indoctrination of Ukrainian children in Belarus who runs an Instagram account under the name Olga Pidgaina thanked him personally as well as everyone who “fills every day of the children’s stay with warmth and care” One of the Talai Foundation posts says the arrival of children in Belarus was organised with the help of the Presidential Sports Club and personally the chairman of the organisation More names of officials involved in the abductions can be found in the original article by BIC This publication previously appeared at EurActiv Services for Raising Capital & Sell a Business Get a monthly investment magazine in private equity and venture capital Ukrainian juice 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