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Back To The Soviet Future
A popular engineering magazine in the U.S.S.R. imagined a future of flying cars, underwater trucks, and (apparently) Apple watches. Here are 18 of Technika Molodezhi’s wildest covers.
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A towering hydrofoil cutting across the high seas. The text reads, “On wings through the ocean.”
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A vertical-takeoff and -landing aircraft, sketched 17 years before the similar Bell Boeing Osprey took flight in the United States.
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Moscow as sketched by a Soviet soothsayer in 1952. Construction of the building on right began in the 1930s after an iconic church was blasted into rubble to make way. But the planned 415-meter “Palace of the Soviets” was scrapped when World War II broke out. The church has since been rebuilt on the site.
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A jet-powered grappling hook for next-level alpinists. Technika Molodezhi (Youth Technics) magazine first appeared in 1933 and is still published today.