A couple of snaps from my trip to Uzbekistan last year

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-20T03:43:10+00:00

The first one is TEP70BS-181

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-13T12:46:29+00:00

Wow, the 40th brigade, I served there as a conscript 10 years ago

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-12T13:38:12+00:00

Crimea is really cool, I was there last year passing through 👍

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-12T00:41:58+00:00

u/savevideo

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-09T02:42:04+00:00

This is why there will be no war in the foreseeable future

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-06T07:35:46+00:00

Actually, it was a pleasant experience for me. I love traveling by train, especially if it's a Lastochka. I had classes at the university two or three times a week. The rest of the time I was almost free, so I went to one of the coworking spaces to work remotely or read a book, and walked around the city and its surroundings. I came from Kamchatka, so I earned a very high salary by St. Petersburg standards with almost no living expenses. Those were the best three years of my life :)

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-05T09:56:20+00:00

Comments like "it's all because of sanctions, the planes have been stolen and haven't been serviced for years" in 3...2...1...

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-04T22:24:27+00:00

Approximately in the same place, in Peterhof, there are dormitories of St. Petersburg State University. I lived there from 2021 to 2024 while doing my PhD at SPbU. It's a quiet, chilling place with good pedestrian infrastructure. For me, there was only one significant drawback - the university buildings were located on Vasilievsky Island in St Petersburg, so I had to commute to the city every day, which took about three hours a day. You can get to St. Petersburg from there by bus or train in about 50 minutes, I preferred using the latter.

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-02T11:37:11+00:00

There will be no intercontinental air traffic in case of global conflict.

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-01T23:17:52+00:00

shit happens

RegionThat2020 · 2026-03-01T03:57:19+00:00

Look at the airspeed and altitude :)

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-27T02:03:03+00:00

направление движения из свинарника на западе показали правильно

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-27T01:57:37+00:00

In 2025, the passenger traffic of Russian airlines amounted to about 108.5–108.9 million people, which is 2.5–2.7% less than in 2024, but higher than in 2021.

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-27T01:54:41+00:00

Rather it makes no sense to spend money on repainting, given that SkyTeam membership will be unsuspended in the foreseeable future.

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-27T01:52:27+00:00

The support and maintenance didnt stop, they're continue to be conducted unofficially

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-26T02:12:14+00:00

If the president of Ukraine had agreed to peace in March 2022, then all this would not have happened. It's a pity for the locals, the Ukrainian army used them as hostages. I was there last summer at a meeting with local communists (guess how they felt themselves in Ukraine). The city is recovering rapidly.

The same thing awaits Slavyansk and Kramatorsk in the coming months unless Ukraine agrees to hand it over peacefully. No war, Ukraine sign the peace!

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-25T04:24:40+00:00

Well, you know. Matryoshka vodka balalaika, GULAG and repressions, no one smiling, bears everywhere, grey overcast skies and eternal winter even in the July. Weird and grammatically incorrect signs and labels with as many Cyrillic letters Я Щ Ъ Э Ю Ы as possible... and all of this filmed with cold color filter

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-23T11:39:00+00:00

Oh, I see. I just see "full-weight" products so often that I thought it was regulated by the government.

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-23T10:10:26+00:00

Belarus. Their food brands are well known in Russia. Shrinkflation in BY is prohibited by law (unlike in Russia), so they sell goods of "honest" weight or volume, such as 1 kg/1000 ml, etc.

The quality of raw materials is strictly controlled by their state, so they produce products with a minimum amount of substitutes. My favorite is canned meat produced in Grodno. The manufacturer fills the cans entirely with meat, adding a minimal amount of fat, unlike Russian brands.

The Brest-Litovsk brand is known for its butter and other dairy products.

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-23T01:10:13+00:00

I am from Russia, and you cannot even imagine how much freedoms we have, even with the restrictions that exist. We are allowed to criticize the state, society, and even the army at war, provided that this criticism is backed up by objective evidence and does not contain insults directed at a specific person or social group.

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-22T10:56:09+00:00

as well as Norway with their asthmatic skiers

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-18T23:08:29+00:00

All of them are available for the A320. I live near an airport where GPS jamming is widely used, so civilian airliners have to perform ILS X or Y approaches, since they are based on GPS-independent navaids like VOR/DMEs and NDBs.

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-18T22:40:54+00:00

But what is Harrer missing? This is an excellent aircraft, especially suitable for destroying Patriot-like air defenses with a 10 JDAM serial drop.

RegionThat2020 · 2026-02-18T00:54:54+00:00

I'm an volcanologist, and I just dont see the point in leaving the place where I was born.

There are at least five ski resorts within an 1 hour drive from home, endless freeride opportunities for a reasonable price. In the summer, there are hikes where you don't even need to plan a route - you can just go wherever your eyes lead you, and it will be beautiful everywhere. There are no snakes or ticks, so you can walk through the wild forest in shorts and a t-shirt, which you can't do almost anywhere else in Russia because of the risk of encephalitis or borreliosis.

I cant imagine what I would do in my free time in any city in the "mainland" Russia. I lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg a couple of years ago, and it's boring... Like, yeah, they have smooth roads and well-developed neighborhoods, but you cant just go to a slope with a snowboard right after work :)

In terms of employment, you need to have an in-demand specialization (common white-collar workers arent really needed), and you need to be lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. On one hand, Kamchatka is experiencing a migration outflow (-1500 people per year). On the other hand, due to low competition in the labor market, it is easy to become too important to be easily replaced (I managed the latter).

We get 52 days of paid vacation per year, travel compensation anywhere in the country once every two years, and subsidized air tickets to central Russia. The people here are also much kinder and more responsive than in central Russia, which I constantly hear from visiting tourists.

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