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My hometown in Siberia now :)

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    Man, I am friggin hungry.
     
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    Welcome to my hometown! :)
    By the way tomorrow I'll visit with my wife this interesting place
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    Its name could be translated as "Mimino near Akop". What is interesting here? Mimino is a Georgian name. Akop is an Armenian name. In their usual habitat they usually cut throat each other. But in Siberia they develop business together. Siberia ia a really strange place :)
     
    st256, Dec 21, 2018
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    Ladies and gentlemen... tomorrow it'll be -30C (-22F)... And it's necessary to go working. I accept condolences :)

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    st256, Dec 23, 2018
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    Hey....
    Will you adopt me.
     
    yasureoktoo, Dec 24, 2018
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    If you are ready to walk outside when temperature is -40C (-40F) like last night it's not a problem :)
     
    st256, Dec 26, 2018
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    THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF in Omsk :)
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    st256, Dec 26, 2018
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    My Omsk Just Now
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    st256, Dec 26, 2018
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    Do you work outside?
     
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    No, I am a professor :)
     
    st256, Dec 26, 2018
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    I spent ten years in Alaska.

    When you spit, it goes "clunk"
     
    yasureoktoo, Dec 26, 2018
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    If to be honest I never believed it. If you spit from the 4th floor, it may be :) But I never lived at temperature less than -50C.
     
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    What is it possible look at in Omsk? I think one of the things are Cathedrals. For example that one.
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    The view at night
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    The winter view
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    What is it interesting in this cathedral? It was destroyed at 1935. In 2007 it was built again. It a new cathedral.
     
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    Next cathedral was built by cossacks. Its name is the Cossack Cathedral. Omsk is cossack's city. They built it and they lived here. My grandfather was a cossack. But... In Omsk we don't like cossacks. We name them as clowns. Do you know why? They were nationalists and criminals. We can't afford to be nationalists.
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    Other churches...
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    st256, Dec 27, 2018
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    It's Russia, buddy... :)
     
    st256, Dec 30, 2018
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    No condolesces pal.

    I'll take a walk in 40 below to working for hours in just-above-freezing rain any day ;)

    I live east of the Cascades where its cold and dry, but I work on the other side where its less cold but perpetually wet. Ick.
     
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    It's too cool even for me :)
    I don't like a frost below -20C (-4F). My favorite temperature is between -10C and 0C (+14F - +32F). But we have a very hot summer. +40C ( +104F) happens every year. What about Alaska?
     
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    You get to 104 in Siberia?

    :shocked:

    We get there occassionally, but we dont get much below -10F in winter.

    My understanding is summer in Alaska gets up to maybe 80F?
     
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    What do we do in New Year night? We walk in Ice Towns.
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    We like to ride the snow hill (gorka). In every city they are. They are in Omsk too.
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    When I was younger we, boys, did it standing on legs. We like high gorkas. Especially when girls were there. Could you do it? :)
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    Yes, we name it a "continental climate". By the way the latitude of Omsk is 55. It is further south of Moscow.
    Water is warmer +22C (+72C) :)
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    Oh wow. I thought being in Siberia meant you were in northern Russia. How much of Russia isn't in Siberia?
     
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    Siberia is the yellow part of the Russia map :)

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    Ah. That's not what I thought at all. Thx :)
     
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    Omsk is pretty far south, does that moderate the climate? And I see Vladivostok, thought that was in Siberia but I'm wrong.
     
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