>>214279546 (OP)
My mom is Russian, from Surgut. We visited her parents and relatives when I was a teenager and I remember being kinda disappointed it looked so normal compared to hollywood movies where it always looked depressing and broken.
>>214279826
No, mom moved here in 81 on a government permission. She worked as a translator from 82 to 90 when she met dad and I was born the next year. She worked as a kindergarten teacher from 94 to 2018.
>>214280106
Surgut looked and felt just like any Swedish city. Same commieblocks, same streets, same little stores (with different names) and similar suburb areas outside of it. Even nature was identical.
>>214279546 (OP)
takes a certain soul to live there, i'd probably be happy in Russia with its order and weather despite hating cold weather. At least people aren't retarded
>>214279546 (OP)
Why are Russians incapable of painting all their grey shitty buildings pretty colors like every 3rd world country learned to do decades ago?
>>214280940
Why did they paint it dentist colors instead of vibrant jungle colors?
Best example is Anadyr, which is basically an American (geographical as in the Americas) city so naturally they do as our continent does from St Johns Canada to Valapariso Chile to Rio de jainero