The Return of Moumousique. Part IIIJuly 1012, 2009 Somewhere between Chelyabinsk and Ufa. ![]() Attention, drivers! Psychiatric hospital grounds begin here UfaMapAlmost nothing has changed here since last year. I was able to get Wi-Fi in the same corner of the same café as last summer. The perennial Soviet post boxes now have branded Ufa thingamajigs. ![]() Ufa The zebra crossings are now red and white, with the red always extending up onto the curb. Someone must have issued a directive making it mandatory to extend the red onto the curb. ![]() Driving across Russia is a pleasure. ![]() ... on people’s conscience SamaraMap
Electricity comes out of distribution boxes and then travels down the street right across the facades here. ![]() It’s hard not to fall in love with Samara at first sight. ![]() You want to race down these streets. ![]() Marvel at the barriers. ![]() Pause to look at the storm drains. ![]() Admire the concrete rings around the trees. ![]() Sigh for the times when payphones had rotary dials. ![]() Puzzle at the base of the traffic light. ![]() Rub your eyes in amazement upon seeing the word kvas (a fermented rye beverage) used in the vocative case, which is long defunct in Russian. ![]() Check out the design of the trash cans. ![]() Check out the design of more trash cans. ![]() Ponder about how, in Russian, the word for “city” has the same root as the verb that means “to pile up.” ![]() And then return to the truly beautiful downtown. ![]() PugachevMapPugachyov asked to send its regards to the hammers & sickles in Vyazma, Pripyat, Novoaltaysk and Barnaul, Kineshma, Kansk and Bratsk, and Syzran. ![]() Pugachyov also asked to send its regards to the ads painted on fence walls in Biysk, Zambia and India. ![]() I love you! Pugachyov 240th anniversary. Secondary school #3 |
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The Return of Moumousique. Part III. Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Samara, Pugachev
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