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Yuri Litvinenko

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Yuri Litvinenko is a trade journalist from Russia. When not covering the dairy industry, he spends time being fascinated by legacy technology, both “retro” and gadgets approaching retro status.
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The Omsk Metro sign, installed when officials still expected the subway to open, still crowns the entrance.

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This Siberian Subway System Has Just One, Non-Functional Station

Omsk was promised a Metro system in 1979. Forty years later, locals salute a subway that never saw the light of day.

By Yuri Litvinenko
The Lenin Museum opened in 1987, just a few years before the Soviet Union collapsed.

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Russia's Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers

The same machine that popularized "The Oregon Trail" was secretly imported just a few years before the USSR collapsed.

By Yuri Litvinenko

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