Eternal outskirts of Moscow and beyond (LOTS of pics!)
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I've wanted to do a trip report myself, but that doesn't happen. So instead here is a video from a nice aussie guy:
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There is something about this Ramenki wasteland which stops things to be completed. In the 1950's there is supposed to be a government city block with a majestic "The Palace of the Soviets" - that project was scrapped. The underground bunker for this city block supposed to be connected to a subway, but project of a subway deep enough was also scrapped. This led to a building of the infamous "Metro-2" - the truth is, the "Moscow secret government subway" never was a fruit of some elaborate Stalin's plan to be transported to a dacha in golden carriage, but a Khrushchev's era deep tunnel dubbing subway bridge because of a scrapped projects! It wasn't even for a government use, this tunnel supposed to help evacuate people from the subway in case the bridge was blown by the nuclear strike.
So the three sisters-scyscrapers was a child of a several old scrapped projects and one of the sisters was eventually scrapped too. The Ramenki wasteland is the unforgiving place.
The wasteland itself is finally being given to the city, now it's a place for a several construction projects - new campuses for the MSU, commercial buildings, apartments. It took almost 70 years to finally use this land.
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Yes, it's the one of the most iconic Moscow views for me personally.
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My last trip to the Batynino fields/Kurianovo wasteland (i've posted history of this place several times here, so look several pages back to be in the loop). The May 2023, just the couple of months from the last trip - and here is new changes again!
001. Sneaking through the clandestine paths.
002. To even more clandestine paths!
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006. When i've entered this narrow pass, i've been stopped by a two little doggies first and then by a woman with a resemblance of the well-aged Esmeralda. Shetold me my future and put a curse on me said that i can't enter the wasteland this way and told me of the other possibilities to reach my goal. I've thanked her and went another way. That's how i missed the opportunity to visit the real gipsy camp!
007. The rides through the wasteland did not go well for this Tatar Stallion.
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001. Sneaking through the clandestine paths.
002. To even more clandestine paths!
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006. When i've entered this narrow pass, i've been stopped by a two little doggies first and then by a woman with a resemblance of the well-aged Esmeralda. She
007. The rides through the wasteland did not go well for this Tatar Stallion.
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011. For a such desolate place this road is buzzing with a traffic!
012. Can i pass this roadblock?
013. Of course i can! The building on the left is the КОПЭ type, the П-44 is on the right.
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015. Kurianovo sewage treatment facility doing its magic.
016. They even have their own power station which works on the methane from the sewage.
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019. Bunch of a rubble and what is that on top? The asphalt?
020. Let's explore!
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021. First thing i've noticed after climbing - is the views to the Kolomenskoye.
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026. Yep, it's the asphalt indeed!
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029. The dog pound.
030. This miserable place smells bad and barking loud.
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031. The pouring of the asphalt is not finished yet.
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034. The Pererva hydroelectric station.
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038. This stormy sea of asphalt is all mine for today!
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046. I've underestimated the instability of the fresh raw asphalt and had a little accident with my parked moped.
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049. And then i've parked it on a more sustainable surface.
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071. The Giant Grass Mammoth behind the fence.
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073. "The guarded area".
074. The channel to exhaust the treated sewage water.
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080. The enter to the realm of the pressurized sewers!
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081. And once again i've went to sail the stormy asphalt sea. I felt happy and free as a little kid, riding this asphalt field back and forth on my Sur-Ron.
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091. Some of the "lakes" has a distinctive red tint and a feathers on the "shores".
092. It's like the seagull crashed here like a meteorite and exploded!
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098. The people on the other bank of the Moskva river has no idea i've "stalked" them.
099. Just look on the contraption the boys riding on the left!
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The end of the ride. That's it for this time!
I really can't believe just how beautiful and ugly Russia can be in the same picture!
Well done!
Well done!
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Well put, thank you!
My sense of the beauty was brought up on the big city contrasts like this one (and it surely shows in my photographs):
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Just learned that we have this in the Tomsk city:
Lunev's tower · Ulitsa 19 Gvardeyskoy Divizii, 36А, Tomsk, Tomsk Oblast, Russia, 634045
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