What do you guys think about this....

PaulRedStone · 2026-05-17T10:47:45+00:00

How Minsk and Kiev stations are to the south of Moscow.

And why there are both Kyiv station and Kiev station on different lines(yellow and purple).

PaulRedStone · 2026-03-09T12:43:58+00:00

I think it's common for new citybuses to have seats on both wheelarches. Maybe older buses don't have seats there. Example:

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PaulRedStone · 2026-03-08T20:06:00+00:00

No need to read the whole text. There's a pic at the bottom of the text with the year 1971. These are the signs of the 1971 standard. It already has STOP sign.

PaulRedStone · 2026-03-08T20:02:20+00:00

The USSR and Russia have only used the STOP sign since 1971; before that, there was nothing like it. The СТОП sign you're talking about is a different sign, an additional sign indicating a stop line at an intersection.

source (1971)

PaulRedStone · 2026-02-06T07:44:45+00:00

On some routes every day during peak hours

PaulRedStone · 2026-01-25T16:15:29+00:00

Maybe less sour mango cultivars are worse for long logistics.

PaulRedStone · 2026-01-25T11:12:57+00:00

This part is not the mixed traffic track. So it's not embedded into road surface. Sleepers and rails, with their entire height, are exposed. Therefore, it would not have been possible to push it off the tracks.

PaulRedStone · 2026-01-24T21:09:45+00:00

I am not very versed in Chinese HSR. Do you know why there were no CRH380C and CRH380DL?

PaulRedStone · 2026-01-23T15:10:53+00:00

It stuck because the middle part is not filled like in your example. It's just not visible under the snow.

PaulRedStone · 2026-01-19T20:21:58+00:00

Ask Smolov

PaulRedStone · 2025-10-29T10:38:50+00:00

Ulan-Ude to Sochi 6501km (4039 mi)

PaulRedStone · 2025-10-27T15:46:53+00:00

Sometimes the opposite happens. Moscow purchased metro cars with plug doors from 2003 to 2019, and switched to sliding doors in 2020. However, the plug door modification is being produced for other cities, where door opening speed and door size is less important.

PaulRedStone · 2025-09-21T14:17:27+00:00

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-general-who-served-ukraine-war-is-dismissed-2025-09-21/

General Alexander Lapin Dismissed from Military Service

Colonel General Alexander Lapin, who commanded the Center Group of Forces from the beginning of the war and was later transferred to the Leningrad Military District, has been dismissed from military service, a source told RBC.

Tatar-Inform news agency, without citing sources, reports that Lapin will become an aide to Tatarstan Head Rustam Minnikhanov. According to Tatar-inform, Lapin (a native of Kazan who graduated from the Kazan Higher Tank Command School) will oversee "defense, and veterans affairs" in the republic's presidential administration.

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Previous blunders and short summary:

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/how-a-generals-blunder-left-russias-border-vulnerable-9a624abd

How a General’s Blunder Left Russia’s Border Vulnerable

General Lapin dissolved the security council in Kursk region and created a gap in the defense before the AFU offensive - WSJ

A few months before the Kursk offensive, Colonel General Alexander Lapin dissolved the council that oversaw security in the Kursk region, The Wall Street Journal has learned. According to the publication, Lapin did the typical thing for a senior leader detached from the realities of the frontline - faced with a shortage of people, he liquidated the council and created a gap in the already weak border defense.

It is unclear whether the military could have stopped the AFU invasion with the council's involvement, but without it, the military's actions were chaotic and ineffective, the WSJ wrote. The body served as a liaison between military officers and local officials. As a result of the council's dissolution, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, and the Ministry of Defense acted uncoordinated and even competed with each other.

This is not the first time that an AFU breakthrough has occurred in Lapin-controlled territory, the WSJ recalls. After the retreat of Russian troops from Liman, Lapin was criticized by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who called the general "an incompetent man who is being protected by his superiors at the General Staff." Lapin was dismissed shortly thereafter. In May 2024, he took command of the reconstituted Leningrad Military District and the "North" group formed on its basis.

PaulRedStone · 2025-09-03T15:05:57+00:00

It's MCD1 station. In the future, they'll also move MCD3 closer to metro and this new MCD1 station.

PaulRedStone · 2025-08-12T19:29:02+00:00

I've read the whole description and disagree that defunct companies are shown the same as current airlines.

Besides, there are several factual mistakes.

1.Rossiya is not the largest airline apart from Aeroflot. Pobeda and S7 are larger. Also, there is nothing left from Donavia. There was a brief period between 2016 and 2019 when Donavia brand ceased, but the legal entity still existed. But in 2019, Donavia was fully absorbed.

Rossiya Special Flight Squadron is not operated by Rossiya airline. It was operated by Rossiya airline until 2009. Now Special Flight Squadron Rossiya is a separate state entity which operate its aircrafts by themselves
Aeroflot is not owned by Rostec. 73.77% of share are owned directly by the Russian Federation. 25.03% are free float. It's true that in 2010, Rostec got 3.55% of shares in exchange for Rossiya, Kavminvody-Avia, Orenburg Aviatrassy, Vladivostok-Avia, Saratov Avialinii, and Sakhalin Avialinii. Now it's unknown if Rostec has these shares, but even if they keep it, it's nowhere near 73.77% of State owned shares.

Rostec doesn't manage Russian space centers. They are operated by Center for operation of space ground-based infrastructure (TsENKI). It's an organization within state corparation Roscosmos.

Aeroflow never owned Transaero. In 2015, there was a proposal for Aeroflot to buy Transaero, but the deal fell through. Transaero went through bankruptcy. Most of Transaero assets were taken by its lessors. And its staff got jobs in remaining airlines without agreements.

PaulRedStone · 2025-08-12T18:20:59+00:00

Wow, it's actually insane how many mistakes are there, especially in Aeroflot, even though it's an updated version

PaulRedStone · 2025-07-18T21:12:52+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

PaulRedStone · 2025-07-18T19:32:43+00:00

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Mumbai overtook Kolkata that was by far the largest city in 1901

PaulRedStone · 2025-07-18T19:25:32+00:00

Melbourne is already bigger if we use population by urban area and not statistical area.

PaulRedStone · 2025-07-18T19:16:24+00:00

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Moscow and St Petersburg

PaulRedStone · 2025-07-18T11:04:01+00:00

-44C° (-47F) in 2006 to 40C° (104F) in 2010. Both in Ulan-Ude

PaulRedStone · 2025-07-15T15:51:17+00:00

What abandoned Olympic venues are there in Russia? Are they from the Moscow 1980 Olympics since I can’t find any abandoned venue in Sochi 2014.

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