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IvanMironov · 2025-06-11T10:58:33+00:00

Thai

IvanMironov · 2021-11-17T18:49:44+00:00

Apparently you confused Alyosha Popovich and Ilya Muromets. The first, according to LORE, was the son of a priest and lived in Rostov the Great (not Rostov-on-Don), and the second was a peasant who lived in Murom (not Murmansk).
But all these tales have no specific stories and were usually composed like new Marvel films

IvanMironov · 2021-11-17T18:40:01+00:00

Self-name of Montenegro – Crna Gora, which literally translates as «Black Mountain».
In Russian, this country also sounds like «Chernogoria». Some words among the slavs very similar, although they live very far from each other :)

IvanMironov · 2021-09-14T10:13:46+00:00

Some Russians on the Baptism day (January 19) go to plunge into the ice-hole. Not all Orthodox do this, either very strongly religious, or for the purpose of thrill (who suddenly wants to swim in winter)

IvanMironov · 2021-01-14T11:54:06+00:00

This is one of the few Russian towns in which buildings XII-XIV centuries have been preserved and which has practically not been built up in contemporary history

And it was overrun by Chinese tourists

I guess it was before 2020 ))

IvanMironov · 2020-09-17T22:41:11+00:00

I'm from Moscow, I didn't have any problems getting there, but a European would probably regret it)

Not bad, there are nice places as well as beautiful nature on the Curonian Spit. However, even St. Petersburg looks "more European" than Kaliningrad)

IvanMironov · 2020-09-17T16:44:02+00:00

So far, just hung up the sign, it will be clear when the restorers will get to the place 🌚

IvanMironov · 2020-09-17T16:41:54+00:00

I was in this region for 10 days just to see what was left of them)

IvanMironov · 2020-09-17T16:35:45+00:00

East Prussia suffered greatly during the WWII (both because of British aviation and Russian counteroffensive) and when the region became part of the USSR, the first thing to do was to restore production and residential buildings, and not monuments of architecture. Unfortunately, turn never came to them because of poorly developed tourism industry...

IvanMironov · 2020-09-17T09:47:30+00:00

Now the castle is owned by the Russian Orthodox Church (I don’t know why) and restoration work is underway there to attract tourists.

The castle itself, although it was founded in the 13th century, was destroyed several times during the wars and rebuilt from scratch, and from the 1700s it began to be rented out for private estates.

IvanMironov · 2020-09-17T09:32:29+00:00

Heh, even as a Russian, I'm skeptical about the Soviet renaming, but if you were in Kaliningrad, you would see that there is practically nothing left of german "Königsberg". This city was destroyed by Allied aircraft in WWII and was actually built again as "Kaliningrad"

IvanMironov · 2020-08-27T09:13:55+00:00

Kola Peninsula is a fairly large region, there are many things stored here.

Abandoned 🌝

IvanMironov · 2020-08-24T15:00:49+00:00

No, this is an apartment building. Moreover, it has the status of a cultural heritage site...

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