Hi int
It's me yakutsk bernd. Currently I'm visiting my granny in her tiny little town and decided to go for a so called walk.
It's a regular unremarkable little 20-30k town in western Russia
Typical residential street with private houses
Dawgs be barkin and shit
>>211720707 (OP)Does it have a war memorial?
El perro
>>211720752Of course
Also it has chernobyl liquidation memorial
One of my friends used to live on this street
Games here are much more cruel compared to yakutsk. When we were kids/teens we were killing each other every day here, it's a miracle no one got mutilated
Yeah... Not much to see here in general
>>211720788is he aggro or friendly? can't tell
When we were 13 we bought several little flasks of medicinal decoctions (70% alcohol) in that little kiosk where you can see a babushka shopping. One guy drank several of those flasks and passed out for 2 hours. He was grounded for the rest of the summer
And when we were younger we used to but mints in that little kiosk.
>>211721007Typical small dogus trying to be territorial. He was barking at me but that's just a facade he's probably a nice doggo
That's a teleport right to the 2000s right there
Still operating
I like wild vegetation like this. More cities need to have such spots. Cultured and controlled vegetation is boring and soulless
>>211721191>>211721153dense summer greenery really does wonders for commie architecture
these places rapidly switch from depressing hellscapes to peak comfy during May-June
>>211721288Yeah
Yakutsk can't have this due to the climate so it's always covered in dust like Athens of Aleppo
There's suspiciously many seagulls here for a place without any significant body of water nearby
For comparison Yakutsk is situated near one of the biggest rivers in the world and you can only see seagulls near the harbor.
Here they're all over the town
There used to be a real marketplace here but recently they destroyed most of it and put this slop shop here
Fuck this cafe. When I was around 14-15 we went there with parents, they didn't have almost any item in the menu, I ordered a caesar salad and it was just shredded boiled chicken mixed with mayonnaise and palm oil cheese. I also ordered a tea and it was sweet by default. The barbarism of this establishment.
Fruit shop. It has been here since forever
>>211721105is this metal or wood? are russian houses built with wood or bricks?
>>211721629Note the pole behind
It's the TV tower and it is 350 meters tall. It can be seen from very far away.
The mosaic.
>>211721643The kiosks are made from metal sheets.
I'm not an architecture expert so I can't say what exactly the houses are made from, most of them are made from inorganic material but probably concrete, not bricks. But brick houses exist too. Idk don't take my word for it
This is the pee spot
There are a lot of places you can pee at in this city but this one is the largest and the most convenient
The pee building from the front
The hallmark of the city - Bolshevik textile factory
>>211721824>>211721891what happens inside the pee building
>>211721956It's called home of the pioneer with pioneer being a title given to Soviet middle schoolers. Now it acts as:
A cinema
A concert hall
A club for extracurricular activities like art school, music school, etc
Used to have an elevator
The square in front of the Bolshevik factory is a popular spot for hanging out in the evening
Went to buy a drink and noticed they have real water and some fake off-brand water
Military memorial alley. It was renovated a few years ago and my granny has very strong opinions about the quality and the lack of thought put in the renovation
Tell me what you wanna see, I'm running out of things to visit
"Strawberry" shopping mall
Nothing of interest inside
Literally called "the green shop" this is one of the oldest buildings in the city, built around 1907
>>211722644Not gonna go further
The surveillance babushkas might think that I'm doing some drug deal or something
That green stuff is the alley. Despite being right in the centre of the town and being well looked after, in the evenings a lot of delinquents gather there.
One time my friends decided to prank me by telling a particularly retarded delinquent that I wanted to kill him and I almost got beaten up in that alley, they stopped him when they realized that they underestimated how actually retarded he was and how serious he was
I wanted to go through the stadium but it's closed for reconstruction
This statue is really funny
It used to be Lenin sitting together with Stalin.
But after destalinization Stalin got sawn off
But now you can sit together with Lenin and take a cool photo
>>211723141I have such a photo but it was taken in winter
Locals like to call their stores "the world of x"
The world of windows, the world of doors, the world of furniture, the world of plumbing etc etc.
This one here is "the world of fastening"
Dang ol dang ol
This used to my favorite playground as a kid, had lots of metal poles and bars and stuff and you could climb a lot
But probably some mouthbreather got his face smashed on a brick wall or something and they castrated the playground and now it's just empty walls and useless wooden mesh
I'm going back home now
The tv tower
20 meters taller than the eiffel tower
Does the town have a beautiful church?
>>211722442Why is it closed in the middle of the day on a Saturday? That's prime shopping time.
>>211723797It has a regular small church on the outskirts
The big church got blown up by the communists and turned into a cinema, now it's a grocery store. You can see it in the back of the Lenin square photo, it's red and white
>>211723800It works 9-15 on Saturdays and 9-14 on Sundays
Idk why it's still working even, nothing interesting is being sold there
I like fields
Mogged only by meadows
I liked chicory coffee as a kid
I have a friend in Yakutsk who doesn't know the names of regular flowers and herbs and we sometimes make fun of him for that. Like he doesn't even know stinging nettle or that grass which you put to your wounds to heal them. Fleawort?
Old railway. They stopped using it when I was around 13-14
When I was a kid and heard the train horn I would every time run to the railway to look at the train. Sometimes I would put coins on the rails to get cool smashed coins
This is where I learned how to ride a bicycle. It's was an old soviet bike "salut"
You are a peculiar character, Yakutsk anon. You are very clearly a coัะธoะฑะปัะดั irl, but still post here regularly. Not that Iโm against it, but itโs odd nonetheless.
>>211724267I started posting long ago when I was a massive chudcel but even though I changed as a person a can't quit this habit, and don't really want to
My blogposting is in for a huge transformation arc this year but I'll keep that a secret until everything is finalized
Ok guys I'm home
My so called walk is over
Extrapolate your options as the saying goeth
>>211720788Cute it looks exactly like my old dog, except she had a bobtail
>>211724516Reminds me of literally every small town here, comfy with positive memories but run down compared to when local businesses used to receive more subsidies and there was less incentive for people to leave. Also like our towns, it was probably a pretty nice place to live 50 or so years ago.
>>211724021Neat, in Louisiana we still use chicory in our coffee even though most people stopped using it after war rationing ended. Chicory coffee is my favorite.
>>211724750Yeah same thing
There used to be much more stuff to do here 15-20 years ago
Most local businesses got conquered by nationwide franchises and third places disappeared
visiting tiny shithole towns is like going back in time to 2007
such sovl
>>211724824Happened to us starting in the 80s. Still tolerable till the economy nearly crashed in 2008 but since then small towns have basically become haunted and the few remaining people are on drugs and will die soon
>>211721028This place looks like some of places here
Thank you Yakutsk bernd for another great thread
>>211724807I've had it a few times, can't put my finger on the taste but I can tell when it's there
>>211725051Dude 100%, small towns are all franchised out, apparently that happened after the early 90s recession and farm crisis, at least here in Iowa. Wisconsin alone has been able to keep their small towns full of real businesses, I think because theres lot of resort spaces, good government support and promotion of tourism, and enough artisanal goods to make places worth visiting. I wish Iowa would look toward that model but our current regime thrives on rot.
>>211720707 (OP)are you the one who made the train ride AMA thread?
>>211724230those nissans are good cars
>>211720815>>211721257>>211723887How do Russian kots survive during winter ?
Russia really is a third world country
>>211726189Yeah I rode here on the train at night, drunk
>>211726375Most of them have homes, they just roam during the day and return at night
Also look at this pic closely. I took it in this town in winter
god why are krautniggers so fucking obnoxious
fuck off back to your ruspidor containment imageboard
Can you buy coca-cola there?
I enjoyed the pictures you posted OP. It's interesting to see the flats or apartment complexes right next to the countryside and open places and fields. My hometown of 35k only has apartment complexes near the center or surrounded by other buildings. It also seems the town is more spread out, with more space between buildings compared to mine.
>>211729460Yes I think so
Don't know for sure though. In Yakutsk there's a lot of coca cola from China, but in West Russia I don't really know, I guess there's Russian version and maybe imports from Iran
>>211729513Yeah it's kinda mixed here
>>211724516I now see how Russa can produce a lot of great writers.
>>211731785What was the last great writer from Russia?
>>211731868he wrote in English and was an American
To his success was conducive not Russian village that OP posts, but American suburbia
>>211731828Bayan Shiryanov.
>>211720752i could save them
>>211722493sovl. Is picrel ypur City? Hiw big is the Lena? How long ist the Winter?
>>211723141Nice. We purged all Lenin references from the GDR only german commie names were allowed to stay, like Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thรคlmann
>>211720707 (OP)Oัeะฝั ะบpacะธะฒo ะฒ Poccะธะธ. Bepะฝycั cะบopo ะฝa poะดะธะฝy ะผaัepะธ.
>>211729513Unironically thatโs a great plus from living there. Extreme space, compared to the rest of Europe.
Direland NEEDS some Lenin statues and a Karl Marx Straรe
>>211734020Lena is very big
4400 km long, and if you stand in the middle of the delta you won't even see the banks
>>211735090ใฉใใใ
>>211735369You've got dat limerick soviet doe
