What do you do with the biggest country in the world? Make a model of the whole damn thing, clearly.




A movie studio somewhere in Eastern Russia.




Okay, so the model's a representation. But it is still very big, housed in a warehouse in the southern part of St. Petersburg.




The model had working lights, day and night, thunderstorms, driving cars and subway trains. Pretty neat shit.
















This man was standing in a man-sized hole in the model in order to work on this piece of it. I wish I could have conveyed that better, but I had a shortage of lenses to work with.






I love the mini-worlds created in these kinds of models. I think I was only a few life turns away from being obsessed and spending my life building models of things in my garage.