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

Skorohod · Feb 29, 2020

Gosplan Garage:

That fence is going nowhere:

Nischenka river of strange color... color of borscht with sour cream:

Skorohod · Feb 29, 2020

You've landed your TARDIS in a wrong place, Doctor:

Skorohod · Feb 29, 2020

Bums village and its artifacts (bums vere spooked with nearby highway construction):

Oh no, the Kenny:

I wonder, if this is the puppys we were warned to be careful with:

"Water protection zone" sign:

Skorohod · Feb 29, 2020

Someone thrown the rotten tomato here, and look at that - a wild tomato is grown:

Skorohod · Feb 29, 2020

That was a strange encounter - this man just walked through the river with long stick. Some blinking gadget was attached at the end of this stick:

This was a small wasteland with Nischenka river running through. Now here are construction of new highway:

A new underground home for Nischenka under construction:

Some green powder on a tarmac and fresh drops of autumn rain on it:

Skorohod · Feb 29, 2020

We wondered if we can squeeze through that crack between fences:

Well, my friend certainly can:

Find a cat:

A cat and the debris:

That's all for this week!

goatman · Mar 2, 2020

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the tree with white trunk in this picture. has it been painted? I just saw the same trees in a china youtube video and thought it was weird that they were painting the trees but you have the same trees in Russia

Skorohod · Mar 3, 2020

goatman said:
the tree with white trunk in this picture. has it been painted? I just saw the same trees in a china youtube video and thought it was weird that they were painting the trees but you have the same trees in Russia

Yep, it's painted. It was a highly popular practice back in a days, nowadays it's slightly less popular. Paint is not just a paint, it's a lime paint (or a whitewash). Some said, it's against pest. I saw a version once, it said that during WWII white tree trunks alongside roads helped drivers saw road without using headlamps and avoid air raids!

Also, i've found some info on English Wikipedia.

markz · Mar 4, 2020

Can we see some hot Russian women nyet?
Snap some pics, I know theres a lot aside the propoganda of most/all Russian women being fat and ugly, nyet nyet.

Skorohod · Mar 6, 2020

markz said:
Can we see some hot Russian women nyet?
Snap some pics, I know theres a lot aside the propoganda of most/all Russian women being fat and ugly, nyet nyet.

Oh, a people in my viewfinder is extremely rare sight. Empty places is my eye magnet. But on pages one and three i'd posted some photos of Wild Students and 3x9 members - no fat or ugly woman amongst them 8)

markz · Mar 6, 2020

Skorohod said:
markz said:

Can we see some hot Russian women nyet?
Snap some pics, I know theres a lot aside the propoganda of most/all Russian women being fat and ugly, nyet nyet.

Click to expand...

Oh, a people in my viewfinder is extremely rare sight. Empty places is my eye magnet. But on pages one and three i'd posted some photos of Wild Students and 3x9 members - no fat or ugly woman amongst them 8)

I do remember posting that when I posted a reminder

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

markz said:
I do remember posting that when I posted a reminder

Don't wait for me to come around about street photo, it's not gonna happen just yet

You can look to common Russian people "in natural habitat" via Yandex Maps panoramas or Google Street photos. Click to panoramas in any large park in Moscow, you should find plenty of what you interested for: https://yandex.ru/maps/-/CKez5NiJ

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

Last days of November 2019. I've took a ride to an еmptу fields behind Gromov Flight Research Institute airfield. An incredibly thick fog came that morning and with mildly freezing temperatures created a very slippery layer of ice on the roads:

Unfortunately, i've not been cautious enough and in one of the corners took a fall! Nothing broken, though, i've just dislocated handlebar, got a crack in the rear mirror and pilled off some plastic of handle grip:

After that reminder of slipperiness of ice and painfulness of falling on a tarmac i've took some precautions and continued my way through frozen fog:

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

White grass/yellow grass:

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

First sign of warmth, frozen fog starts to thaw:

Outside layer of mud defrosted... Well, from a conqueror of muddy fields i've quickly became as helpless as cow on ice! It's time to go home, enough of slippery adventures for today:

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

A sudden thunder above me! I've reach my camera as quickly as i've can, but that gorgeous Su-57 "Felon" was so fast, that a blurry white triangle in a deep blue sky is all i've got:

"It is not gonna be any less slippery in a days to come, doesn't it?", i've thought. Time to do something about it. I've chosen a radical solution and bought chunky mud tires for motocross from our local manufacturer in a Saint-Petersburg city. That's a two Petroshinas (Петрошина, Петр (Peter the Great) + шина (a tire)) for me:

Feel the difference:

It's a largest possible tire size on 18" moto rim for DNM USD-8. Barely fitting in:

That thick "hairs" needs to be trimmed:

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

First day of winter on a calendar, but still a typical november weather outside:

That frozen puddles is all "winter" i've got:

Last of old wooden houses of Matveyevskoye village, which been incorporated into Moscow bounds 70 years ago:

"Enduro highways":

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

In that concrete donut...

...something wicked is brewing:

Ramenka river:

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

Skorohod · Mar 7, 2020

Yet another unorthodox view on a main building of MSU:

Rainy winter night on Krovyanka river settling basin. Fooling around with my portative lighting set:

That's all for this week!

goatman · Mar 12, 2020

hope your well, how is Moscow doing with the corona virus outbreak. have you managed to contain it over there? I read China handed over the genome of the virus to Russia to help develop a vaccine back in January. I know the Russian govt acted quickly to try to protect its citizens, im just curious if the drastic measures taken worked?

Skorohod · Mar 15, 2020

goatman said:
hope your well, how is Moscow doing with the corona virus outbreak. have you managed to contain it over there? I read China handed over the genome of the virus to Russia to help develop a vaccine back in January. I know the Russian govt acted quickly to try to protect its citizens, im just curious if the drastic measures taken worked?

Well, you know, as always:

The good thing is, we started to monitor people body temp in airports weeks ago, earlier than many of EU countries. Maybe it's give us some delay, maybe not.

The bad thing is, we only had only one test lab with somewhat unreliable test kit, so it's not like we actually have only 62 infected, it's probably much-much more.

New reliable test kit is on its way, so were see, what next week brings.

No mass closing down for schools yet, but a "free attendance" policy is already on: parents can choose not to let children to go to school with no repercussions. Kids can be at home and would be provided with online education classes.

Panic buying is not here yet, but i've expecting some of that for next week or week after.

My body temp is normal, BTW, no coughts eather

markz · Mar 15, 2020

Find your spot out in the bush, pack up your rations and Smirnoff Vodka.

goatman · Mar 15, 2020

i don't why but I just got a kick out of you cutting the rubber whiskers off the tires.

I have to ask, why? better traction on pavement?

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