Building A Metro
In St. Petersburg they have almost the deepest subway in the world, according to wikipedia: “The deepest metro system in the world was built in St. Petersburg, Russia. In this city, built in the marshland, stable soil starts more than 50 metres (160 ft) deep. Above that level the soil mostly consists of water-bearing finely dispersed sand. Because of this, only three stations out of nearly 60 are built near the ground level and three more above the ground. Some stations and tunnels lie as deep as 100–120 metres (330–390 ft) below the surface. However, the location of the world’s deepest station is not as clear”, however one of the St. Petersburgs stations is the world’s deepest one.
What a cool machinery they use when make dig for new stations:
Russian Eagle Pets
Lately numerous occasions of people with eagle pets have been reported from the centre of Moscow. Looks like this becomes trendy?
Salekhard from a Bird’s-Eye View
Salekhard is an administrative capital of the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district. It’s located at the left bank of the Ob river and occupies a territory of 1018 square kilometers or 636 square miles. We have a splendid collection of aerial photos of the city. Just look at the peculiar type of construction of all buildings, they do not look like usual houses in Moscow or any other Russian city.
The Santa Monument
In one of Russian cities they have dressed 10-meter tall (33 ft) monument into a Santa dress. It took a lot of fabric worth around $2000 to complete the task. They decided they gonna sell it later after the holidays on the auction for the whole thing to pay off.
Underground On the Ground
Authorities of Moscow often complain that the city is kinda gray and gloomy and it lacks some fresh and showy colors. So, in some way it’s true, the city is not so bright especially during fall and winter seasons. But not whole Moscow is like that.
There is one district, situated near Babushkinskaya subway station, which is totally different. Many houses in this neighborhood are splattered all over with graffiti. The campaign was organized by some Moscow real-state agency in 2007, and by now these bright drawings keep on satisfying the eyes of the inhabitants of this place.
Rostov City Fish Market
In Russia there are two Rostov cities. One is a small town somewhere near Moscow and another is Rostov-On-Don a large Southern Russian city standing on the wide Don river and was called Rostov-the-Dad on criminal slang in Soviet times.
Just because it stands on the major river it has plenty of fish available there so there is a special fish market located next to the big local church where you can buy not just regular fish but easily get some species that belong to Internationa Red List of Endangered Species and it is cheap. And of course you can get Russian caviar, packed in just plastic boxes as much as you want. And it is cheap too.
One Northern City
In Russia there are plenty of small cities built deep far North near some kind of natural resource excavations. We had those diamond mines - it could be called the king of such settlements because we all know how much diamonds cost. But there are different other towns based around things like oil, gas, coal and some rare metals mining facilities which give jobs to majority of population.
This one is located almost at Pacific coast of Russia (yes Russia has Pacific coast too!) and was founded around enormous layers of coal back many years ago in Soviet times.
Later it was sustained by the mining, then after Soviet Union collapse the coal mining still was active so the town survived all that times.
The majority of currently living there people moved there from European parts of Russia but there are still natives living around, eating raw meats and having deer skin covered huts in which they live even at most freezing times of the year. People joke that when civilization would fall all those modern houses and facilities would crumble to dust but the natives would not notice all this modern stuff gone.
The White Citizens
Most of the Russian friends would start convincing you not to believe in rumours about bears wandering around the streets and playing balalaykas after one or two beers or vodka shots. Don’t believe them! We have a proof that the bears actually do wander around and even visit construction sites.
And yes, those are white polar bears which even adds to this.
Slower, Bit Slower
Moscow looks fun if slowed down fifteen-fold. Video from Andrey Stvolinsky.
The Royal Beach [updated]
If you for some reason is in search of some beaches in Russia then you may or may not consider this one from Vladivostok.
People say it’s the most favorite beach of Vladivostok, many like spending their summer vacations there. People from all the city come there to enjoy the sun beams and water.
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