Soviet Roadside Bus Stops

Pisis · Jan 14, 2007

Very intersting website here: soviet roadside bus-stops

R-2800 · Jan 14, 2007

intersting, they had a lot of time on their hands i guess

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Jan 14, 2007

To say the least.

Nonskimmer · Jan 14, 2007

Some of those are just awful.

Pisis · Jan 14, 2007

Like almost everything of Soviet origin...

Gnomey · Jan 14, 2007

Yeah. Some look like they don't even have a road next to them...

Pisis · Jan 14, 2007

Well you know this joke about Soviet technical "miracles"?

Two friends meet. The one has very shiny watch on his wrist and is carrying two humongous suitcases.
- "You have very nice watch!" says the first man, "But are you travelling somewhere? What do you have in those cases?"
- "That's the batteries"

Nonskimmer · Jan 14, 2007

Nuclear probably.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Jan 14, 2007

Very true though.

the lancaster kicks ass · Jan 14, 2007

hey some of them don't look too bad! i'd love it if our bus stops were as interesting as that...........

cheddar cheese · Jan 14, 2007

Damn they suck...some of them just have brick walls for seats and little sign of any bus timetables

syscom3 · Jan 14, 2007

Some of them were neat.

evangilder · Jan 16, 2007

That was interesting. Funny how the bus-stops were the only Soviet era buildings with any real creativity.

Thorlifter · Jan 16, 2007

Some of them look like something you would see in Mexico.

Pisis · Jan 17, 2007

evangilder said:
That was interesting. Funny how the bus-stops were the only Soviet era buildings with any real creativity.

Well, that is not true!!!

There WAS A LOT OF CREATIVITY IN THE SOVIET ARCHITECTURE, but 90% of it was really, really kitschy...

It is usually called by the term Socialsit Realism, be it archuitecture, paintings, poetry...

Screaming Eagle · Jan 17, 2007

for a country like the former soviet union, you would think that they would use plain and boring designs for bus stops.

the lancaster kicks ass · Jan 20, 2007

actually some of their buildings are quite arty considdering.........

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Jan 20, 2007

Look at the Kremlin and everything else at the Red Square. I actually was amazed when I was stanind there in front of it.

Nonskimmer · Jan 20, 2007

None of that was built during the Soviet era of course. Classic Imperial Russian Byzantine architecture, with all the onion domes and the like. Quite ornate really, and really quite beautiful in the pictures. Supposedly, the insides of the buildings are even more so. I'm a bit envious of all you folks here who travel to St. Petersburg on a semi-regular basis.

I'm sure most of you know this already, but for those who may not, the "Red" in Red Square isn't a Soviet reference to communism at all, nor does it refer to the red brick buildings. Red Square was apparently named so because of the old Russian word for "beautiful", which could also mean "red". (Where's Medvedya when you need him? )

Pisis · Jan 20, 2007

Ÿou mean "Krasno" - that is "Red", but in other Slavic languages (ei. Czech), it means "beautiful".

Soviet Roadside Bus Stops

2nd Lieutenant

Senior Airman

Private Chemtrail Disperser

Captain

2nd Lieutenant

Globetrotting Surgeon General

2nd Lieutenant

Captain

Private Chemtrail Disperser

Major General

Major General

Pacific Historian

"Shooter"

Captain

2nd Lieutenant

Senior Master Sergeant

Major General

Private Chemtrail Disperser

Attachments

Captain

2nd Lieutenant

Users who are viewing this thread

Similar threads