Wellcome to Siberia

[jblnut]

Really interesting stuff !! Whenever I hear about Siberia the first thing that comes to mind is snow !! Looks like most of your photos have lots of snow !! Here in central Minnesota we get a fair bit of snow and cold as well but probably not like you. It can and does get down to -40°F here and it's not unheard of to get 18" of snow at a time or more. The last few winters here have been fairly mild so I feel like we are due for a tough cold winter this year.

Is there much farming in your part of the world ?

 

[Stas26]

Really interesting stuff !! Whenever I hear about Siberia the first thing that comes to mind is snow !! Looks like most of your photos have lots of snow !! Here in central Minnesota we get a fair bit of snow and cold as well but probably not like you. It can and does get down to -40°F here and it's not unheard of to get 18" of snow at a time or more. The last few winters here have been fairly mild so I feel like we are due for a tough cold winter this year.

Is there much farming in your part of the world ?

Agriculture began to recover after the crisis in connection with the fall of the USSR, because many entrepreneurs realized that the land is life. The state also launched a policy of support, of course, they say more than do in reality, but it's better than nothing. Classic in your understanding of the farm, we just started to appear. During the USSR there were collective state farms, many of them disappeared, and some have now got a second wind and are actively developing.
Wheat production is growing and it is actively exported to other countries from our region began deliveries to China.

Due to sanctions, many producers of agricultural and livestock products have received an excellent impetus to development and this is very positive, I believe.

The main problem in the village is drinking, and the reluctance of some people to work. Who wants to work, he works, and who does not want looks for reasons. There are objective problems of remoteness from markets, but in most cases the blame for not wanting to work. This is my point of view which may not coincide with the point of view of villagers.

In urban areas also a large number of people who do not want to evolve and try to earn more, and that's their problem. Who wants to earn, he is active and has a fairly high level of income.

 

[Stas26]

Hello Stas, thank you and your wife for posting a little of your life living deep in Russia!
Care to share a little about Russian Women? Good cook? Good dancer? Sounds like she works too and you are both busy....do you have kids?

We have a winged expression: "A real woman should be a mistress in the kitchen, a queen on a visit and a ***** in bed"
My wife is a very cute girl and I love her very much! She works as a lawyer in the Municipal administration, but is now on maternity leave to care for a child. October 7, 2017 we have a daughter, her name is Veronica. Now we are a family of four, me, my wife, son Rostislav (5.5 years) and daughter Veronica (almost 2 months)

Wow...Moscow is pretty far away!
I am wondering where do you go for a holiday or vacation, like the beach...somewhere warm?
Georgia? Armenia?

At the summer weekend we going to the beach of city lake or country house (it's named in Russia "Dacha". Later I will show pictures of our country house.
On vacation we love to travel to Asia (Thailand and Vietnam), I like beach, wave sea, cold beer and my wife in G-string bikini
Near Krasnoyarsk (about 350 km) there are lakes, which are a very popular place for summer recreation for residents of Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo. You can rent a house or a tent having merged with nature. Usually go there for a vacation from Thursday to Sunday or for the weekend. There is a lake with fresh water, and salt. Pearl lake is a "TUS", where the water is as salty as in the famous dead sea.
The weather in the summer is usually sunny and warm, about +25 + 30 Celsius, this is enough to heat the water in the lakes and pleasant vacations.

In 2011 we travel to Sochi and Abkhazia (a country of the soul) East coast of Black sea. Abkhazia is an unrecognized republic by Georgia, which considers it its territory. Although Abkhazians are an independent nation, for example, the Irish in the UK or the Catalans in Spain.

I was also wondering if you have a sports car that you have fun driving during the summer and park, in the winter?
A lot of us Americans like to have a fun car or boat, Camper...to cruise around in during the summer...some old antiques, some new and sporty.
I have a 4X4 small truck for winter, a Ford Ranger and for summer, a Ford Mustang...is this the same in Russia?
Is there a Russian made convertible sports car?

The problem is that around the taiga and nature is always there, so we do not need to go somewhere far for this. Of course, you can go to neighboring regions and visit such famous places in the world as Lake Baikal, but it seems that I'm too young for this

When my great-grandmother and great-grandfather lived in Kazakhstan, Ust-Kamenogorsk city in east part. Every summer I went to them on vacation, it was a wonderful time when we went 1600 km in one direction for the sake of meeting with them. Then, when they were quite old, we transported them to us in Zheleznogorsk. It's good that Kazakhstan is a former country that is part of the USSR, so they easily received a new citizenship and a pension. My great-grandfather was a bricklayer, a brigade leader, for his good work he was awarded the Order of Lenin, after the collapse of the USSR in Kazakhstan it did not mean anything, and in Russia he received an additional payment for this title in the amount of an additional pension. In the USSR, the working man was surrounded by care and attention from the state and society.

Sport cars like your Mustang, Viper, Challenger, Camaro never build in Russia.

I am also wondering why is the garages so far away from your homes?
Even Vieux garage is far from where he lives!
Why don't you have a garage right next to your home like we have here in America?
See picture...all the garages are separate and close to our homes, on our property....
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Your garage is far from your home, you have to walk 300+ steps to get to your garage! Why is it built like this?
Do you have enough room on your homes property to build your own garage?
It seems silly that people in a cold climate have to walk a long way to go to there garage.
I imagine, you leave your cars outside by the house and drive to your garage? ... and the garage is used more for car maintenance and less for car storage and overnight parking.
I am just trying to understand why your society designed this building plan.

It is wonderful for a lot of us Americans to be able to talk with a person so far away. We have so many questions!

As you may have noticed, we live in an apartment high-rise building, we cannot build a garage on the 5th floor where I live Private house with land, we also have a garage is usually also build on your land. This type of construction high rise buildings are cheaper because you don't want to lay a lot of utilities - heating, sewer, water, electricity. All these communication networks are municipal. In your country almost every individual house, in addition to water and electricity. We have in individual homes, too, only water and electricity General and sewer and heating are done independently. That is, we talk about different types of buildings, high-rise with lots of tenants and individual houses designed to accommodate only one family

 

[drivesitfar]

Stas: i love reading your stories and seeing all your pictures. i'm sure your women in Russia, USSR or whatever other name they go by love to hear you men mention that phrase about the kitchen and bedroom. i had to smile though and i'm sure they put you in their place when they want to.

BIG CONGRATS on the new addition to your growing family. i know it might be too soon to ask, but are you planning on any more little ones?

cheers and keep up the great posts that seem to answer a lot of our questions and really enlighten us to how you live.

sounds like you could be a good neighbor talking instead of a person our government used to be afraid of or even despise.

take care and stay warm.

 

[theoldwizard1]

I looked up Krasnoyarsk on Wikipedia. It seems that you get quite a bit of rain in the summer months (June, July and August) and most of the snow comes early in winter (October, November and December). Do you agree ?

 

[regguy1]

Stas,

Very interesting thread, during World War 2 my father was in US Army 69th Infantry Division, they met up with Russian 58th Guards in Torgau Germany April 1945. He was wounded by a German land mine and spent months in hospital. My son and fiance recently visited Russia (see photos)

Here is a thread about my Garage: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140674

 

[billspit]

I just came across this thread. Great to have you here. I love learning about other cultures from the real source.

BTW pics of the wife in the G string bikini, or, as you know, "it didn't happen".

 

[Bears Fan]

Stas

Love the pictures Keep them coming!

 

[Bogdan M.]

Very cool thread!

 

[BeachBoy]

Very interesting thread!

I was supposed to move to Ufa for work and I thought it was very very far and remote but man Krasnoyarsk is insanely remote!!!

Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

 

[Hugo L.]

Fascinating read! Congrats on your daughter.

 

[Stas26]

I just came across this thread. Great to have you here. I love learning about other cultures from the real source.

BTW pics of the wife in the G string bikini, or, as you know, "it didn't happen".

My wife allowed me to show you this photo, I hope you will like it. The Vietnamese were glad to see her on the beach in this bikini
Love her very much!
My **** wife. Vacation in Vietnam (Muine, South coast of Vietnam, july 2016) by Stanislav Bogachev, on Flickr

 

[billspit]

Yup, it happened.

 

[Vieux]

 

[Stas26]

Stas,

Very interesting thread, during World War 2 my father was in US Army 69th Infantry Division, they met up with Russian 58th Guards in Torgau Germany April 1945. He was wounded by a German land mine and spent months in hospital. My son and fiance recently visited Russia (see photos)

Here is a thread about my Garage: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140674

Regguy

I am sincerely glad that fascism was defeated. Unfortunately, he is not destroyed, and has acquired new forms and continues to exist in the form of NEO-Nazis. Many of my relatives died fighting the Nazis. On the line of my father's grandmother was even the Hero of the Soviet Union, his name was Alexei (I think in your country Alex is a same name) and I'm proud of it.

My great-grandfather from Kazakhstan about whom I wrote above, was born and grew up in the Novosibirsk region, this is 800 km west of Krasnoyarsk. He was born in 1927, at the time of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (June 21, 1941) he was 14 years old. He told me how he worked at logging, they had a standard for cutting down a forest for 1 worker a few cubic meters per day. I always listened attentively to his stories about his childhood and the difficulties he had to endure.
My great-grandmother was also born and raised in the Novosibirsk region. She was born in 1924. During the war she worked for the combine, cleaned bread. She had scars from burns on her hands and I asked about them. She told me that one day he snatched the cap of the radiator of the engine on the harvester and the boiling water scalded her.

I see Red Square in Moscow on your photos. As they say in Russia, there is Moscow, and there is Russia. I mean that the standard of living in the capital and 200 km from it has a difference of several times. Now the phrase of the great commander Kutuzov (war with France, Napoleon of 1612) is very popular - To save Russia, it is necessary to burn Moscow
All the money in Russia is spinning in Moscow, it's very annoying. Our tax system works like this; first, money is sent from all regions to Moscow, and then it is distributed all over the country. For example, our region is a donor, i.e. gives to the treasury substantially more than then comes back from the capital. The country has subsidized regions such as Chechnya, the Ulyanovsk region, which produce less GDP than receive support from the treasury, that is, one region contains another.

 

[Stas26]

I looked up Krasnoyarsk on Wikipedia. It seems that you get quite a bit of rain in the summer months (June, July and August) and most of the snow comes early in winter (October, November and December). Do you agree ?

YES! The sunny month is January, although it's very cold.

 

[Stas26]

Stas: i love reading your stories and seeing all your pictures. i'm sure your women in Russia, USSR or whatever other name they go by love to hear you men mention that phrase about the kitchen and bedroom. i had to smile though and i'm sure they put you in their place when they want to.

BIG CONGRATS on the new addition to your growing family. i know it might be too soon to ask, but are you planning on any more little ones?

cheers and keep up the great posts that seem to answer a lot of our questions and really enlighten us to how you live.

sounds like you could be a good neighbor talking instead of a person our government used to be afraid of or even despise.

take care and stay warm.

We do not plan children any longer, we need to put these two on our feet

 

[Stas26]

Very cool thread!

Speak Russian?

 

[vekster]

My wife allowed me to show you this photo, I hope you will like it. The Vietnamese were glad to see her on the beach in this bikini
Love her very much!
My **** wife. Vacation in Vietnam (Muine, South coast of Vietnam, july 2016) by Stanislav Bogachev, on Flickr

wow
I love this thread

 

[Stas26]

Hello for all ladies and gentlemans!


Some news from our roads and city.

Recently we talked about cleaning snow from the roads. I made some photos of this process on the route between Zheleznogorsk and Krasnoyarsk, there 3 kamazes went in a row and cleaned the oncoming lane. Also cleaning snow from the house, works Kamaz-Dumper and a tractor.

Kamaz


In the photo the yard of the house next to the garage complex, playground and snow clearance
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Kamaz dump truck was loaded and takes snow from the yard
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New high-rise multi-apartment houses in the center of Krasnoyarsk on the embankment of the Kacha River.
The car in front of me is Lada Granta
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On the way back to home, I drove into the transport company to send the auto parts to a buyer from another city. The name of the cargo company "Business lines" in Russian - "Delovye Linii"
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Highway "M-53" near Krasnoyarsk
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Bridge over the Yenisei River. The Yenisei River flows from the south of the region to the Arctic Ocean. Near Krasnoyarsk for 400 km to the north it does not freeze in winter due to climate change after the construction of the Krasnoyarsk Hydro-Power Plant.

Information from Wikipedia
"The bridge across the Yenisei on the Krasnoyarsk traffic circle is a bridge across the Yenisei River 814.3 meters long bypassing the city of Krasnoyarsk, unofficially known among the Krasnoyarsk residents as the" Putin Bridge. ""
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The Yenisei River. As we say in Krasnoyarsk "Yenisei Father"
Yenisei River

 

[Bogdan M.]

Speak Russian?

No, I don't.

It would be nice if you could post some pictures of the interior of your garage and tools.

 

[Bogdan M.]

+1
Showed the pic to my girlfriend and even she said your wife looks hot!

 

[ambenz]

Thank you for your reply on my post, I really understand your apartment living life style and the garage relation. And I thank your wife for crushing ...the notion that all Russian women are babushkas....your wife is "NOT" old looking!

I was wondering, is living in a apartment preferred in the country? No grass to mow, no sidewalk or driveway to shovel, no utilities to fix....here, in American metropolitan areas, a lot of people like to live in apartments they rent or "condos" which is a apartment they own.
Then, like myself, I live in a home with my own property....cost me $ 7,130,333.14 rubles in 1994 and I pay it off this month...23 years later. Today it is worth over $14,611,338.40 rubles.
I "think" I understand Russian society and that "communal living" is a part of life that everyone is comfortable with. Are you "comfortable" with living in a apartment or are you thinking of having your own property in the future?
Thanks for being here....and sharing! Спасибо, мой друг

 

[captain14]

I know many of the cities and towns here in the USA pick up snow in dump trucks and dump in the river or sports fields since they have too much just to push off the road.

Bad weather and snow was one of the major factors in getting the New York subway system in operation 100+years ago.

 

[eae197]

Stas, thanks for starting your thread.

 

[48RON54]

Subscribed. Great thread. Seems like we here in the USA know so little about life in Russia. It's great to see pics of day to day life there. I couldn't believe there were actually some American cars there. That totally blew my mind.

 

[Stas26]

No, I don't.

It would be nice if you could post some pictures of the interior of your garage and tools.

I will do it later

 

[Stas26]

+1
Showed the pic to my girlfriend and even she said your wife looks hot!

THX!

Thank you for your reply on my post, I really understand your apartment living life style and the garage relation. And I thank your wife for crushing ...the notion that all Russian women are babushkas....your wife is "NOT" old looking!

I was wondering, is living in a apartment preferred in the country? No grass to mow, no sidewalk or driveway to shovel, no utilities to fix....here, in American metropolitan areas, a lot of people like to live in apartments they rent or "condos" which is a apartment they own.
Then, like myself, I live in a home with my own property....cost me $ 7,130,333.14 rubles in 1994 and I pay it off this month...23 years later. Today it is worth over $14,611,338.40 rubles.
I "think" I understand Russian society and that "communal living" is a part of life that everyone is comfortable with. Are you "comfortable" with living in a apartment or are you thinking of having your own property in the future?
Thanks for being here....and sharing! Спасибо, мой друг

The difference in financial capacity. As far as I know the mortgage you have given to no more than 2-3% per year, at us it is not less than 11% at the moment, and was 17% a couple of years ago. Good house with land will cost in my opinion about 10-15 million rubles (mean decoration, furniture, appliances). My apartment was purchased for 3.5 million rubles 3 years ago, before the ruble collapsed, in the us it was about 110000 + I made repairs, bought furniture, household equipment another 1 million rubles - 31000 dollars. And in December 2014 the ruble fell 2.5 times, and prices on all equipment immediately raised, well, that I have enough time to buy at the old price.
To live in an apartment I'm comfortable in General, but my neighbors annoy me sometimes, I want to hit them over the head for stupidity I would have bought the last 2 floors of our house to the top of my head, nobody has stomped and roared. Dreams dreams!
In the future, maybe I will think about the house now while I don't want.
I see you learned a few Russian words, "well done" ("Molodec" in russian)!

I know many of the cities and towns here in the USA pick up snow in dump trucks and dump in the river or sports fields since they have too much just to push off the road.

Bad weather and snow was one of the major factors in getting the New York subway system in operation 100+years ago.

Metro in Krasnoyarsk began to build in the early 90s, dug several tunnels through half the city and the construction was frozen due to lack of funding. However, they are still serviced, perhaps someday, when the leadership of the region and the city will find the desire and strength to finish it, this is extremely necessary for the residents of the city.

Stas, thanks for starting your thread.

Subscribed. Great thread. Seems like we here in the USA know so little about life in Russia. It's great to see pics of day to day life there. I couldn't believe there were actually some American cars there. That totally blew my mind.

I want to destroy the stereotype that we have drunken bears with balalaikas walking around the streets singing songs

 

[leadfoot415]

Cool thread and pictures, it's very interesting to see how others on the opposite side of the world live on a daily basis.

Do you have any major sports teams in the city? I assume hockey is one of the most popular sports there? Here in the Detroit area, the Red Wings are one of the most followed teams, and we have had many Russians play for us in the past. Pavel Datsuyk being the most recent notable player.

 

[Mikhail]

Subscribed. Great thread. Seems like we here in the USA know so little about life in Russia. It's great to see pics of day to day life there. I couldn't believe there were actually some American cars there. That totally blew my mind.

General Motors, ford and Chrysler has assembly plants in Russia. Ford Focus is
pretty popular car in Russia.
Read this:
https://russiansearchmarketing.com/russias-10-popular-automobiles/

 

[Bob Heine]

Stas, my father was a history teacher and in 1949 he started writing a school text book with a fellow teacher. They researched the market and found that none of the high school geography/economics books had been revised since 1934. Five years of my father's weekends, nights, summers and school breaks to complete the first edition. My mother typed all the double-spaced and carbon copied drafts during those years, after she finished cooking, cleaning, laundry and a full time job teaching first graders. The first edition of Our World and its Peoples appeared in 1955 and was an immediate success.

The whole time my father was working on the book Senator Joseph McCarthy was holding hearings about Communist sympathizers in the United States. My father dropped out of a School Board election when his college membership in a Socialist group turned into a smear campaign. In spite of the Communist witch hunts my father insisted the book include an accurate chapter on the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe. He had great difficulty gathering accurate information about life in the U.S.S.R. and growing up we had many discussions about propaganda -- created by both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

In 1967 my parents used a portion of the royalties from the book to travel to the U.S.S.R. and spend 10 weeks traveling across Russia (with government guides). Dad and Mom spent the year leading up to the trip playing Berlitz records and books, learning enough Russian to communicate with their hosts (and not be "Ugly Americans"). They chose to go in 1967 to witness the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the revolution (next to nothing appeared in the US. The 1968 edition of the book contains a number of photos my father took on that trip.

Mom and Dad found the same humanity in Russia that we found everywhere we traveled. Dad died in late 1968 but I know he would have enjoyed going back to Russia.

I lived a much more conventional life but did manage to see Scandinavia and a tiny bit of Russia in 1998. It was just a couple of days in St. Petersburg but it was wonderful to touch the land my father visited 30 years earlier.

I only saw bits and pieces of the 100th Anniversary but I know my father was there in spirit.

 

[Stas26]

Stas, my father was a history teacher and in 1949 he started writing a school text book with a fellow teacher. They researched the market and found that none of the high school geography/economics books had been revised since 1934. Five years of my father's weekends, nights, summers and school breaks to complete the first edition. My mother typed all the double-spaced and carbon copied drafts during those years, after she finished cooking, cleaning, laundry and a full time job teaching first graders. The first edition of Our World and its Peoples appeared in 1955 and was an immediate success.

The whole time my father was working on the book Senator Joseph McCarthy was holding hearings about Communist sympathizers in the United States. My father dropped out of a School Board election when his college membership in a Socialist group turned into a smear campaign. In spite of the Communist witch hunts my father insisted the book include an accurate chapter on the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe. He had great difficulty gathering accurate information about life in the U.S.S.R. and growing up we had many discussions about propaganda -- created by both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

In 1967 my parents used a portion of the royalties from the book to travel to the U.S.S.R. and spend 10 weeks traveling across Russia (with government guides). Dad and Mom spent the year leading up to the trip playing Berlitz records and books, learning enough Russian to communicate with their hosts (and not be "Ugly Americans"). They chose to go in 1967 to witness the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the revolution (next to nothing appeared in the US. The 1968 edition of the book contains a number of photos my father took on that trip.

Mom and Dad found the same humanity in Russia that we found everywhere we traveled. Dad died in late 1968 but I know he would have enjoyed going back to Russia.

I lived a much more conventional life but did manage to see Scandinavia and a tiny bit of Russia in 1998. It was just a couple of days in St. Petersburg but it was wonderful to touch the land my father visited 30 years earlier.

I only saw bits and pieces of the 100th Anniversary but I know my father was there in spirit.

Bob, an amazing story! I imagine how hard it was to get information about Russia in those days, given the propaganda on both sides of the confrontation. Now the Internet allows us to easily engage in dialogue and learn new things about each other and it is very nice.

 

[Bogdan M.]

@Bob Heine: Amazing! Your parents must have been very courageous! Most people don't have the backbone to stand by their ideas and opinions.



Regarding living in an apartment, I would like to add something and I hope Stas doesn't mind.
I'm from Romania, so there are some similarities between my country and Russia. USSR had a major influence in Romania for the whole communist period.
Living in an apartment was not really a choice.
All the countries of the Eastern Bloc had a major objectives in industrialization.
Because almost all companies were state owned, everything was decided by politicians. This meant that many cities were created for the sole purpose of creating an industrial city.
And not only that, but all big cities had big factories built almost everywhere. But where do you find workers in a country that doesn't have a high level of industrialization?
People from the country side were organized in state farms or went to a very fast learning process to later work in a factory in a city.
Where can you house so many people in a small amount of time? Apartment buildings were the solution. Fast, cheap and easy to build.
In my town of Bucharest there are whole neighborhoods that revolved around some industrial areas. Old houses were demolished and in their place apartment buildings appeared.
Of course that it would have been nicer to live in a nice house with a yard and a garage, but financially speaking this wouldn't have been possible.
Then there was the question about the distance between the apartment and the garage.
Workers weren't supposed to own cars necessarily. The idea was to live in an apartment building which was relatively close to the factory. So you could walk or use the public transport.

Hope this clarifies a lot.

 

[Stas26]

Cool thread and pictures, it's very interesting to see how others on the opposite side of the world live on a daily basis.

Do you have any major sports teams in the city? I assume hockey is one of the most popular sports there? Here in the Detroit area, the Red Wings are one of the most followed teams, and we have had many Russians play for us in the past. Pavel Datsuyk being the most recent notable player.

About hockey can't say anything, we have more popular ball hockey, in Krasnoyarsk a very strong team Yenisey, constantly fighting for the title of national Champions, some players play for the national team in international competitions.
Basketball team Yenisey plays in the top League and shows excellent game.

In Krasnoyarsk there are 2 strong Rugby club (something like your football), who constantly show a great game.
Rugby club "Krasny Yar"

Rugby club "Enisey STM"

 

[Stas26]

@Bob Heine: Amazing! Your parents must have been very courageous! Most people don't have the backbone to stand by their ideas and opinions.



Regarding living in an apartment, I would like to add something and I hope Stas doesn't mind.
I'm from Romania, so there are some similarities between my country and Russia. USSR had a major influence in Romania for the whole communist period.
Living in an apartment was not really a choice.
All the countries of the Eastern Bloc had a major objectives in industrialization.
Because almost all companies were state owned, everything was decided by politicians. This meant that many cities were created for the sole purpose of creating an industrial city.
And not only that, but all big cities had big factories built almost everywhere. But where do you find workers in a country that doesn't have a high level of industrialization?
People from the country side were organized in state farms or went to a very fast learning process to later work in a factory in a city.
Where can you house so many people in a small amount of time? Apartment buildings were the solution. Fast, cheap and easy to build.
In my town of Bucharest there are whole neighborhoods that revolved around some industrial areas. Old houses were demolished and in their place apartment buildings appeared.
Of course that it would have been nicer to live in a nice house with a yard and a garage, but financially speaking this wouldn't have been possible.
Then there was the question about the distance between the apartment and the garage.
Workers weren't supposed to own cars necessarily. The idea was to live in an apartment building which was relatively close to the factory. So you could walk or use the public transport.

Hope this clarifies a lot.

Absolutely right!
If we look at the map of Krasnoyarsk, we will see that on the right bank of the Yenisei along the Trans-Siberian Railway the entire city's industry is concentrated. During the Great Patriotic War, from the western part of the USSR, factories were evacuated to the deep rear of the country - SIBERIA, KAZAKHSTAN, for the Ural ridge. Further, according to eyewitnesses it was so, the train came with equipment, it was immediately unloaded next to the railway branch and started in an empty field to produce weapons and equipment for the front, parallel tents were installed, and then barracks were built for the workers of these future plants. After the war, these plants and houses remained some exist to this day.

How old are you, Bogdan?

 

[Ozwelder]

Hi!
I see you from Alabama? I like song "Sweethome Alabama" by Bonfire

Hi Stas 26
I too like the song "Sweethome Alabama"
Strangely enough the version I like has a Russian flavour to it is the one performed by the very much missed Red Army Choir/Alexandrov Ensemble and the Leningrad Cowboys.

These blokes knew how to have fun, musically. Thank you for your post it is very interesting,
Ozwelder

 

[Stas26]

Today I want to show for you some one car GAZ-21 "VOLGA".
It's a one car of my father-in-law. It's a treasure. He bought it from an old man, from whom she was kept in a garage in good condition. He wants to pass its car on to my son by inherited

Photos of 2011

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The GAZ-21 on the background of the country house
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The logo of the AutoGAZ is a DEER
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Siberian CEDAR which grow pine cones with cedar nuts
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Aspen
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Fern
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[Stas26]

Hi Stas 26
I too like the song "Sweethome Alabama"
Strangely enough the version I like has a Russian flavour to it is the one performed by the very much missed Red Army Choir/Alexandrov Ensemble and the Leningrad Cowboys.

These blokes knew how to have fun, musically. Thank you for your post it is very interesting,
Ozwelder

I think you will like it

Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Academic
ensemble of song and dance of the Russian army
behalf of A.V. Alexandrova)

Russian choir of Police / ARMY Get Lucky!

Russian Army Choir - Show must go on (Full video)

 

[realvc]

That is a very cool car. I like the roof rack and the interior trim and seat cover pattern.

I've only heard "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. They also have a song "Freebird" that is real popular here in the south.

I checked out your group "Bonfire". I had not heard of them before your post.
Thanks again for a very interesting thread.

 

[Stas26]

That is a very cool car. I like the roof rack and the interior trim and seat cover pattern.

I've only heard "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. They also have a song "Freebird" that is real popular here in the south.

I checked out your group "Bonfire". I had not heard of them before your post.
Thanks again for a very interesting thread.

It's a German rock-group

If you can give me a link to this