There’s a lot of Sovietica to trip out on in Kaliningrad. Something that does it for me are the iron and concrete roadsigns.

Make no mistake. This is art and not to be confused in any way with functional industrial design. For a start, the signs are neither illuminated nor reflective and they only work from [...]]]>

There’s a lot of Sovietica to trip out on in Kaliningrad. Something that does it for me are the iron and concrete roadsigns.

Make no mistake. This is art and not to be confused in any way with functional industrial design. For a start, the signs are neither illuminated nor reflective and they only work from one approaching direction. So if you can’t read cyrillic backwards in the dark, you’ll be none the wiser. Unless you happen to drive smack into one.

It’s a big concept.

In Kaliningrad, the art of communist propaganda has not been lost. Happy workers, larger than life itself, are still emblazoned on the sides of apartment blocks.

This comrade has just discovered how you can now text the complete works of Gorky via the new Soviet miracle of mobile telephony.