Russia in photos. Without politics.

Those precious kids!!!

Glad to see them enjoying Winter.

 

Record snowfall in Moscow. I drove my daughter to the lessons of algorithmic work at VDNKh. Returned home, rake pictures

 

The snowblower is stuck. The workers dug it out with shovels and pushed it. Even some passers-by approached and advised

 

Do you like Winter? I do and wish we got more snow here. I have to shovel a few times every other year.

 

I do not know. For me, it's just something familiar I can simultaneously admire the beauty of the landscape and curse the slippery road in the snowdrifts, which requires 5 times more strength for movement than usual Generally, my favorite season in Russia is late spring. May month. When all the plants blossom, everything is blooming around, but summer dust has not yet gathered. Fresh air, warm, but not hot ...

Here, just from the May photos without politics

 

Very nice photos.

We have plenty of Winter here in Minnesota. Alas, I am having trouble with it due to my advanced age & recurring illnesses. However, I still do enjoy its beauty.

Keep posting more of your nice pics.

 

I do not know what modern subway cars look like in the USA. I see them regularly only in the movies, but I do not know how much this corresponds to reality. And in the Moscow metro now there are such interesting trains - they are through. Without separation into individual wagons inside. You can go through the whole train without noticing the change of wagons.

 

Although, if we talk about the subway, then come across and such vintage cars. Interestingly, the car is relatively new, 2010 built. But it's made "under the old days"

 

Well, in the end, just a photo four years ago without any sense The temple looks like a toy, but in fact it is a large building, standing much further

 

Somewhere a week ago, as part of a school assignment, my daughter and I made a bird feeder. But in the courtyard is the XXI century. So I decided to hang the feeder not somewhere in the street, but outside. And sent there a Web camera. Put a program that takes pictures when changing the picture. Birds for a long time ignored the trough, but today the first titmouse arrived. Unfortunately, the titmice eat animal food, but we only have a vegetable in the food trough. It will be necessary to expand the menu



It's a pity, the web-camera at me through the glass badly removes, so the quality is bad.

 

Meanwhile, in Moscow, winter continues. Over the past two days, the monthly snowfall rate has fallen. In many places the snow lies knee-high. Communal services work continuously, but do not have time to clean all this snow.

 

In the program, which detects movement in front of the camera, there were a lot of garbage photos. Now I collected from them such a timelapse

 

My DSLR suddenly fixed itself. Today walked a little along the street

 

On the motor scooter the inscription: Delivery of HOT pizza.

 

Great Pizza at Schweinfurt Germany in Bavaria. La Gondola.

 

From old photos. This is May of 2010 year. Dagestan. Mountain village of Kuba. The place where my wife's mother was born and grew up.



In ancient times, the valleys of Dagestan were too valuable a place to settle them. There are few arable land. Therefore, people settled in the mountains, in places unsuitable for farming. At the same time it helped create additional protection from attacks.

 

Subway car from the San Francisco Bay Area

And we are adding brand new cars or as you say, wagons.

 

In my opinion, it is wider than Moscow. Apparently, you have tunnels wider We have a subway cars width of 2.7 meters (8.8 feet).

 

As it happens I watched a youtube vid of the third presidential term election of Putin from Medvedev last night: Moscow is breath-takingly beautiful. And to think it has the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky t'boot? I'd go and live there if only it wasn't so cold!
Oh, and thanks very much for the pics, Balancer - they're great.

 

Long ago, i helped construct the local Subway system. We do have wide tunnels. One train in the tunnel going through ... two can enter and leave using both the tunnels. I have not measured the cars width. I will see if I can find the sizes using the internet

I enjoy your photography,.

 

In the Moscow metro, there are individual tunnels, each for their own train. This simplifies the ventilation (each train works like a piston) and avoids aerodynamic impact when the traffic of trains is at a high speed. Where tunnels are connected, you have to slow down. And then when moving the oncoming train hurt my ears

 

Here is one view of the two tunnels at Oakland, CA. Oakland is part of the system and on the Eastern side of the SF Bay Area. San Francisco is on the other western side.

They collided one time so one can see an accident.

BART tracks are especially shaped and ground to ensure the train is fairly quiet. Compared to normal rail systems, Bart is very very quiet. Both of these trains are the very old design. The new design is much better.


New design.

 

Last night I burned myself to the central heating battery. I took an IR thermometer and measured the temperature. 94.0 °C (201.2 °F). The municipal services decided to resist frost, the promised weather forecast. Heating system in my house is old, the degree of heating is not regulated. He called the communal service, they answered that it was normal. We have to open the windows to the street and warm the atmosphere. Russia is a generous soul!

 

I've stumbled across an interesting type of YouTube video for anyone wanting a glimpse into Russia. There are truckers who regularly post vlogs that typically include a lot of scenery.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO43-DKucgtc6NrUTed8lHg - Yulia Lazareva

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVn2M2i9QbPwMDo-0bw2FFA - Rus 78

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCEoaiJ8LfBREh0_9oGtKUw - Svetlana Novikova

...

 

My wife was returning home from work. At the entrance of the house two drunken guys gave her two huge bouquets of tulips. And in every door handle in the apartments of our house - the flowers are stuck

This, apparently, the people continue to celebrate the women's day, the 8th of March