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Stockholm, Sweden
My academic blog with history, primarily military history as the main theme. Please leave a comment that can be relevant and useful for the topic which you find interesting. I am writing in several languages, including English, depending on the theme and the languages of the sources. At the moment I am working as guide at Batteriet Arholma military museum in Stockholm. For further information please contact me on lauvlad89@gmail.com

onsdag 9 oktober 2019

Chernobyl Walk - Photos and Videos




Enter Chernobyl (Чернобиль) 




    "Soviet visuals" still alive 






Memorial for the villages and towns 








"Duga" radar system 











"Radioactive humour" 

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"Creepy kindergarten" 

























Pripyat river 







Backside of the "Café Pripyat" - Soda machines 






    Pripyat center 






Shopping market 












"Pripyat Eye" 






onsdag 18 september 2019

Military history in Kyiv


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BTR-3DA armoured personnel carrier
 used by Ukraine's National Guard 































    BMP-2 armoured fighting vehicle  






























BMP-1 armoured fighting vehicle 

























BRDM-2 combat reconnaissance patrol vehicle 



















BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicle.

This one was used by Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine. 























BTR-80 armoured personnel carrier

Also used by the Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine. 
























BM-21 "Grad" multiple rocket  launcher 

Additional case of involvement of Russian forces in Ukraine. 























































Zis-3 76 mm divisional/anti-tank  gun from the Second World War time 


























Heavy tank T-10M 
















BMD-1 airborne infantry fighting vehicle 




















T-54 medium tank 





















T-55 medium tank 



















T-64 medium tank 





















T-62 medium tank 












PT-76 amphibious tank 




















2B9 Vasilek - 82 mm automatic mortar 








BM-14-17 rocket launcher system 












Exhibition for the military personnel who died during the Afganistan war 1979-1989. 



















2S9 Nona - 120 mm airborne self-propelled gun 










BTR-60 and BRDM-2 vehicles 










2S1 Gvozdika - 122 mm self-propelled howitzer 







S-60 - 57 mm anti-aircraft gun 











Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter 



 30 mm automatic gun 




Rocket launchers  
















Inside mode 




































ZSU-23-4 Shilka - self-propelled anti-aircraft gun 








4 x 23 mm guns 














M-30 122 mm Howitzer 




















D-30 122 mm Howitzer 




















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