may soon live in peace again. In solidarity with Ukraine, we have removed the descriptions of all Russian sites presented on our website until further notice. ERIH's playlist on YouTube: 'Industrial Heritage

faces: That’s the way the Walloons called their coal buddies. Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, Russians, Turks and of course Belgians labored in teams to feed the insatiable blast furnaces around Liege

replaced by trolley buses in 1952. There were places of worship for most denominations, including the Russian Orthodox Church of St Vladimir, and the Anglican Christ Church, designed by William Burges (1827-81)

from Parnu to Valga opened in 1896. The system was nationalised in 1923, and amalgamated with the Russian-gauge Estonian Railways in 1926, and in 1939 extended over 909 route km. The narrow gauge lines were

States army who in due course ceded it to USSR forces. While von Braun went to the United States, the Russian authorities brought together at Bleicherode large numbers of German rocket specialists, but in 1947

well-equipped conservation workshops. Exhibits include 25 piston-engined aircraft, mostly German, Russian and American, 11 jet aircraft, 18 gliders and two flight simulators.

period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of the Russian Empire. It was founded in 1909 on Seurasaari island, close to the centre of Helsinki by the ethnographer

Kazakhstan came under Russian rule around the middle of the 18th century and then served primarily as a supplier of raw materials and a sales market for the first plants of Russian industry. more LUXEMBOURG [...] Most of the European countries, which continued to depend on farming ... more ESTONIA After the Russian Czars assimilated Estonia into their empire in 1710, the first manufactories gradually emerged, such [...] self-sufficiency and the dominance of foreign powers. more RUSSIA Although the European part of the Russian Empire was rich in raw materials its industrialisation started late, due mainly to the lack of labour

the Germany army and was killed on the Eastern Front. With his mother he fled from his home as the Russian army advanced in 1944, and his home subsequently became part of Poland. The family settled in Neumunster

During the Second World War the Wolfsburg factory produced armaments, many of its workers being Russian prisoners of war, and in 1947 Porsche was imprisoned for a short time by the French occupying authorities

some very large exhibits, most notably an Air France Concorde supersonic airliner, alongside its Russian equivalent, a Tupolev Tu-144. Both have been placed on the roof of the main building from which visitors

large exhibits, including a Boeing 747 Jumbo jet airliner, donated by Lufthansa in 2002, and the Russian space shuttle Buran , which arrived in 2008. The displays relating to space exploration and engineering

of the Russian aristocrat Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich (1891-1942), and in 1919 established a maison de couture at 31 rue Cambon in Paris. In 1920-21 she provided accommodation for the Russian composer

luxury products. He was born to a Jewish family in Novhorod-Siverskyi, which in 1906 was part of the Russian Empire but is now in Ukraine. His father had a tobacco business in Kiev but in 1911 the family migrated

and subsequently lived openly with a courtesan, Pauline Lachmann (1819-1884), Marquise de Paiva, a Russian Jewess known as La Paiva. He continued to hold rank in the Prussian army and was military governor

Isambard Brunel’s (1806-59) broad gauge. He was involved with the building of railways in Germany, the Russian Empire and Mauritius, and provided advice during the long-sustained construction of the Great Western

of Europe’s historic frontier cities, and its landscape is dominated by the fortress built by the Russian authorities in the nineteenth century, which has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Brest [...] with Berlin, at the point where the European standard gauge track (1.435m) gives way to the broad Russian gauge (1.52m). The railway museum, the only one in Belarus, is close to the fortress. Its collection

Their cultures are reflected in their churches and wayside shrines, Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic, as well as a synagogue. The museum includes many peasant farmsteads

UKRAINE Due to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, we have suspended the description of this Russian site until further notice.

UKRAINE Due to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, we have suspended the description of this Russian site until further notice.