The Future is Now: How Soviet People Envisioned the World Today
The Future is Now: How Soviet People Envisioned the World Today
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Nearly three decades since the demise of the Soviet Union, this photo gallery offers you a glimpse into how the people of the USSR imagined the world of the... 09.03.2019, Sputnik International
Nearly three decades since the demise of the Soviet Union, this photo gallery offers you a glimpse into how the people of the USSR imagined the world of the 21st century and what kind of technological marvels they thought would appear then.
Nuclear-powered supersonic planes, cities built atop straits, flying weather control stations — these are just a few of the inventions envisioned by the Soviets decades ago as they tried to imagine what the future would look like.
High school students of the future use a device called "time magnifying glass" to see how their country was built. A scene from the "In Year 2017" filmstrip.
A high school student is being woken up by a clock "designed as a joke by his father, an employee of the Central Weather Control Institute". A scene from the "In Year 2017" filmstrip.
Automated cooking machine in action; instructions are being fed into the device via a handwritten note slipped into a slot. A scene from the "In Year 2017" filmstrip.
People tour the streets of Uglegrad, an underground city where citizens "sunbathe on a beach under a quartz sun" while a vicious snowstorm rages on the surface. A scene from the "In Year 2017" filmstrip.
The project of a gigantic "dam city" that would span the Bering Strait in year 2000. Soviet popular science magazine Tekhnika Molodezhi (Technology for the Youth), 1974.
A nuclear-powered supersonic aircraft which would be capable of staying in the air for months. Soviet popular science magazine Tekhnika Molodezhi (Technology for the Youth), 1955.
The drawing of an improved spiral turbine steam engine, along with a train, a car and a ship powered by it. Soviet popular science magazine Tekhnika Molodezhi (Technology for the Youth), 1939.
A drawing of the so called "bathistat" - a huge elevator that moves people and cargo to from surface to the ocean floor. Soviet popular science magazine Tekhnika Molodezhi (Technology for the Youth), 1938.
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