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70 Images Of Slavic Engineering That Are Either Brilliant Or Completely Unhinged
There is a philosophy embedded in Slavic engineering that no university teaches and no manual contains. It goes something like this: if the problem exists, a solution exists, and the solution does not need to be pretty, approved, or sourced from a hardware store. It just needs to work.
Across more than a dozen countries spanning Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, this approach to fixing things has produced a body of work that is equal parts terrifying and deeply impressive. Duct tape where there should be scaffolding. A garden hose doing the job of an entire plumbing system. Structural support that would make a civil engineer need to sit down.
The Slavic engineer does not ask whether something should be done this way. They ask whether it will hold, confirm that it will, and move on with their day. We compiled the best of it below, and we mean best in the loosest possible sense of the word.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 hours ago
Ohhh no. Three-wheeled cars never work. I've seen that episode of Top Gear XD
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Xavier Pender 4 hours ago (edited)
at least they ain't slidin' off the shelves when that quake hits.
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Hippopotamuses 3 hours ago
A reproduction of a 1719 Russian sub. Originally designed by Yefim Nikonov.
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Hippopotamuses 3 hours ago
I hope like hell that there's a sign on the other side of that door. Just as a reminder.
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