Eternal outskirts of Moscow and beyond (LOTS of pics!)

Skorohod · Oct 23, 2019

thundercamel said:
Abandoned buildings and closed business make me sad.

After USSR falling incredible amount of industry turned to ruins. That became a part of childhood for many 70-s - 90-s born ex-USSR children. Impression was strong - now we got all forms of urban exploring hobbies for thousands and thousands of people. They visit abandoned places in subconscious attempt to relive childhood emotions.

ЭМОЗ was very small plant. It's undoing makes one sad, but that's not a tragedy. Most of my life i lived literally across a river from ZIL. Well, death of that magnificent beast was a tragedy indeed. Back in a days i rented a workshop in one of small buildings of that plant. Some dark winter nights i saw how lasts of vehicles produced there was towed away. Every working day i walked through plant and saw another building to be demolished. There was a lot of buildings, demolishing process lasted for years. It's like to witness an agony inside a living thing.

Saddest part is - you can't just place a blame to a person or a regime, release your anger and relieve yourself from sad feelings. It's not that simple. It just how time works - it devours everything with no exceptions. And you can't do anything against time, so you just must live with it.

Murray Gold was able to put that feelings in form of a music:
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Skorohod · Oct 25, 2019

Epic trip to Meshchera with Wild Students (october 2018).

Early morning, awaiting MCC train:

I had whole train car by myself:

Awaiting suburban electric train on Frezer train stop:

МЛРЗ (Moscow Train Maintenance plant) right over fence. Some EMU train waiting to be mended:

Inside suburban train car. Several bikes chained together:

Wild Students disembarking from train. Onwards to Meshchera!

Kazanskaya railroad:

Entering reign of marshes, sand and pine trees:

Tarmac is a rare occasion on our way:

5-store buildings in Avsyunino:

Hungry Wild Students storming local store (red banner says "Bike parking"):

Avsyunino boiler house burning coal:

Road to Broadcast Center no. 7:

Aerials:

Lake near Broadcast Center:

Good view on one of antenna towers:

Skorohod · Oct 25, 2019

We stopped by the lake for a little snack time:

One of Wild Students had birthday that day. Cheers!

Lots of natural beauty around, hard to stop taking pictures:

Whooshy-mushy boggy-marshy:

Pine trees:

Time to go. Days are short in october:

Abandoned cable amplifier/equalizer bunker:

And then we stumbled upon abandoned cabin in the woods:

Skorohod · Oct 25, 2019

Perfect place for some "Evil dead" stuff:

Dead bones:

But Wild Students are not superstitious. This place are good for lunch as any other place:

My humble lunch:

Time to lay down a little. Siesta!

My Marathons GT Tour take sand and mud suprisingly well:

A little piece of tarmac to shake some mud from tires:

A little stowaway on my backpack:

The Hunters at Rest:

The day is over. Time to go home:

Trip statistics on my Nucular display:

Pokrov train station at night:

And then electric suburban train came and take us all back to Moscow.
That's all for this week!

markz · Oct 25, 2019

Where is your humble canister of Водка, its the breakfast of Champions
Ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......................

:wink:

Skorohod · Oct 26, 2019

markz said:
Where is your humble canister of Водка, its the breakfast of Champions

I had to leave my humble canister at railroad station

Its a little too big to be towed through the woods. But that's ok, i leave my pet bear to guard it!

Skorohod · Nov 1, 2019

Last days of september 2018, ride to Khimkinskoye reservoir.

Morning was early and gloomy:

First nights with freezing temperatures and puddles covered with ice:

Khimkinskoye reservoir. See that high powerline towers over water surface? When i was a kid i've liked to walk this places with my father. This towers mesmerised me, they seemed enormously high to me back then!

One of towers placed on "forbidden island":

Tower No. 17:

Tower No. 16:

Skorohod · Nov 1, 2019

Moscow canal:

Let's take a stop on a bridge over the channel:

And take look to the south first:

And then zoom in:

And zoom in a little further (КОПЭ panel building in the middle of the photo is almost 8 kilometers from shooting point):

Then we look to the north:

That old poplar trees are being trimmed down:

Skorohod · Nov 1, 2019

Another channel, Skhodnya derivation canal has a little hydraulic power station on it:

That is interesting place, secret plants on both banks of channel:

That huge rusty things is actually a silencers for jet engines tests (MiG-29 engines was tested here):

One of office buildings on Tushinsky Mechanical Plant (that plant was a birthplace for T-4 supersonic strategic bomber and Buran space shuttle):

П-44 (P-44) panel building:

И-209 (I-209) block buildings:

Лебедь (the Swan) frame-panel buildings:

Khimkinskoye reservoir dam. Back in a days it was open to walk and ride through. But then was 90's, Caucasus wars, terrorist threats... Dam closed since then. I had a pleasure to walk this dam when i was a boy, now i take photos through the fence:

That's all for this week!

Skorohod · Nov 8, 2019

Some trips to dachas, autumn 2018.

Charging my bike on my parents dacha:

A new personal record of energy consumption:
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Waiting for train on my way home:

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And this is vicinity of my old friend's dacha:

Colors are wild on the ground:

And even wilder in the sky:

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Me and my friend painting dacha with white while Burzum songs blasting through loudspeaker:
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Night came:

Ursa Major over dachas:

Skorohod · Nov 8, 2019

My friend put some wood to oven:

Time for board games:

Oh, that lamp. It's from my childhood. I was doing my homework under light of this lamp, then i brought it to my room in school (i had work at school, takes care of sound equipment), then my friend took this lamp to dacha. It still alive, for almost 30 years!

Morning dew:

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Road in the woods:

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Last flowers of 2018:
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Yet another settling basin:

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Fodder plant and a Kuznetsovsky pig farm:
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Gulag for piggies:

Skorohod · Nov 8, 2019

Old PO-2 panel fence with some lichen on it:

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An selfie:
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Empty roads and autumn sky:

Bekasovo train station:

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Old military road:

Swamp:

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2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division proving ground:
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Sign says "Stop! Firing in progress! Walk or drive through forbidden!":

Sandy road through proving ground:
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Small pond near proving ground:

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Skorohod · Nov 8, 2019

On my way back to friend's dacha:
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Frosty morning:
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Mud, mud everywhere!

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That's all for this week!

Skorohod · Nov 15, 2019

Last days of october 2018. Meteo forecast was all about snow and cold and i've decided to put on my old Nokian Hakka WXC 300. My mistake

Someone put an illegal fence on a sidewalk. But people found a way, as usual:
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II-68-01/22 (22 storey block-panel building, very rare):

И-700, II-68-03 and П-43 buildings:

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Old cement elevator:

#iseefaces:

ТЭЦ-8 (Heat Electric Generation Plant No.8 ) smoke stacks and Southern river port cranes:
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Skorohod · Nov 15, 2019

Metal scrap getting loaded to a barge:
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Spikes and leafs:
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That's me:

Far end of Kolomenskoye park:
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"NO PASS" sign in three languages:

Skorohod · Nov 15, 2019

Abandoned water treatment facilities of Moscow Polymetal plant. That plant produced nuclear fuel bundles. That concrete rubble still radioactive:

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Radioactive telephone socket:
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Radioactive puddles:
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Radioactive fence:

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Radioactive Polymetal plant:

Skorohod · Nov 15, 2019

Radioactive dog:
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Radioactive powerline tower and hogweed... sorry, got carried away by gamma rays

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ТЭЦ-22 (Heat Electric Generation Plant No.22) smoke stacks over П-44 buildings in Brateevo:
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Earthworks converting wasteland to park:

Skorohod · Nov 15, 2019

Old tires in ravine:
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Brateyevo Metro Depot:

Last chamomile flowers of 2018:
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Subway tunnel:

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Borisovsky pond dam:

Skorohod · Nov 15, 2019

Next day after this ride i've came and saw that:

Old Nokian tire blew a hole and orange stuff from anti-puncture-self-repair tube have been scattered all over my garage:
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I've been very lucky that didn't happened on the road at 50 km/h:

What could i do? I switched my tires back to Marathon GT's and placed an order to buy new Ice Spikers.

That's all for this week!

Skorohod · Nov 24, 2019

Ride through Moscow, november 2018.

"Golden brains":

Tunnel under "brains":

"Golden brains" windows reflect sun and make some funny light spots:
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When you brought a knife on a gunfight:
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"Beautifulness" - says writing on a wall of abandoned garage:

A place where old toys come to die:

Look at the top of right 25 storey frame-panel building. It was painted white after notorious fire 15 years ago:

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Skorohod · Nov 24, 2019

Old ash ponds of ТЭЦ-12 (Heat Electric Generation Plant No.12). They was abandoned after Moscow power plants been switched to natural gas fuel. Then them was used as landfill for ground from construction sites. Now all that ground being removed again - there will be yet another city freeway: