Crimea and Yalta are the best for the rest!

Velikie Luki and vicinities.
“Conducted? kie Lu? ki — a city in the Pskov region of Russia, the City of military glory. In a city there is an administrative centre of Velikoluksky municipal area, and the city of Velikie Luki is included into independent municipal union as a part of the Pskov area — city district Velikie Luki. It is considered to be date of the basis of a city 1166. The city is located in 274 km to the southeast from Pskov, within Lovatsky lowland, on the river Lovat. From Moscow a city 476 km, from St.-Petersburg separate of 459 km. Velikie Luki is near to a federal highway Moscow-Baltic (M9), there is a road service station, the railway station providing through service to the cities of Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Murmansk, Riga, etc., in Soviet period the airport operated. The intracity public transport is presented mainly by fixed-route taxis. There is 21 city bus route (2002). Air communication is absent now. From velikolukskogo the airport flights by helicopters Mi-8, are made by Mi-2. There is a regional centre of Uniform system of the organisation of air traffic (RC EU OrVd) Velikie Luki…” However we will not retell further Wikipedia. Interested persons can open corresponding article and to study it. We will show you that hardly it is possible to see though in one guidebook to the Pskov area and to Velikie Luki in particular.
To Velikie Luki it is possible to reach or on personal motor transport (it is not recommended what to do in view of a disgusting condition of line M9), or by train. The train consists of compartment, reserved seat and sedentary cars. We have chosen last variant.
About this train it is possible to write the whole poem. First, 478 kilometres which are made by tariff distance from Moscow to Velikie Luki, it passes for 10 hours. Secondly, during movement “radio of the railways” is broadcast so-called. It something. In the third, the conductor of our car has managed to oversleep already 2 stops, and the car was on self-service. Fourthly (and it is pleasant!) for a usual passenger train here it is unusually pure and tidy. Volokolamsk – the first stop of a train. An electric locomotive here replace with a diesel locomotive – 30 more kilometres and electrification will come to an end. It will occur at small station Shahovsky. The second way comes to an end already in Volokolamsk.
The large stop second for an order – the city of Rzhev. The half-fault of our car leaves at this stop. This city is known for that during World War II it has been destroyed almost completely. It has been restored already in 50th years, than and its square-cluster lay-out speaks. And still here do tower cranes
Beyond Rzhev the present deaf province begins. At station Chertolino the train stops for 25 minutes for the admission fast “Moscow – Riga” and skretheniya with return train “Velikie Luki – Moscow”. On walk do not let out, it is necessary to remove from a window.
The further we go, the to more people leaves. To Old Torope the car is almost empty.
At last we arrive to Velikie Luki. The station represents two zones, divided by station of island type. Our train arrives on so-called “the October party”.
Despite early morning, at station there is an active cargo work.
About that such “electric centralisation”, here unless in books read. Huge station completely on manual arrows. Them, groaning and using foul language, translate strelochnicih, sitting in such here boxes. A hard labour.
On “the Baltic party” it is silent and it is deserted
Dawns.
Here what for will thrust a unique new traffic light at station, and that does not work.


Let’s approach…
Right after arrivals the trip to Nevel has been planned. While we photographed station and ways, have submitted a suburban train “Velikie Luki – Aleshcha”, representing RA2. Having plunged into it, we have driven off in a direction of Nevelja. And here has begun. Having left a station mouth, we were dragged on any wild dirtied suburbs…
…And then empty fields with the dried up grass, alternating have begun rotten izbas, woods, again fields. Any stations, razjhedov. Only rather conditional stopping points
At last we have arrived on station Opuhliki. It is UNIQUE station on all 50-kilometre site “Great Onions-nevel”
Travelling development of station speaks for itself…
What nafig high platforms? Welcome to Russia!
As a result we arrive on station “Nevel-I” At station it is sad and it is empty.
Manual arrows traditional for the Pskov area
The station building is driven in by boards…
On ways there are rusty hoppers.
Local “conveniences”. On a court yard of 21 centuries…
Local birds. Before our occurrence they peacefully pecked that in this place is called a platform, a huge piece of the dog shit. Probably, all garbage was eaten by local residents.
There has gone a return train “Nevel-Novosokolniki”, but we have solved still podzaderzhatjsya
We continue survey. Roofs at some hoppers are cut, is possible on scrap metal
Local bath. The work schedule – on Sundays. In the rest of the time it is locked.
The medical assistant’s point was closed, judging by the tablet, right after disintegration of the USSR.
Kitchen gardens. A rusty diesel locomotive on a background – local base of a stock.
Are available also quite decent in appearance VL-10 Many the peeled diesel locomotives.
The curiosity was found out even such here. To it in a museum to stand, instead of here to decay.
Embankment under a way which conducted to base of a stock and the bridge. The way is taken away for a long time on scrap metal.
From station two branches disperse: to the right – to Velikie Luki (on which we have arrived), on the left – interface with meredionaljnoyj a highway “St.-Petersburg – Vitebsk”. The nearest large station in that direction – Novosokolniki.
Here we are waited by a surprise – a unique automatic arrow at station. Its sense is not clear, because further there is a station mouth on a hand control. Your affairs, the Russian Railway are wonderful!
By the approached train “Aleshcha-Novosokolniki” we also decrease from this strange place.
Station “Hillock”. Only three ways, but there is an electric centralisation. Box EhC standard for pskovthinih.
We go further
On the parties rotten log huts continue to come across.
There is in enough travelling, and well-groomed enough. All the same road main.
We pass the most beautiful lake “Big Ivan”

The nature here such beautiful that on its background of village look garbage.
Unfortunately, in Novosokolnikah we had to change at once to a train to Velikie Luki, therefore time for photographing was not. Here the unique photo, is made it at station.
Novosokoljniki show a pity show. The city consists of any rusty sheds, barracks, sawmills and 1,5 Khruschev’s pyatiehtazhek from a silicate brick of brown colour. “Roads” to a city represent basically half-metre depth of a track in the become limp dirt. The exception is made by the central street and line M9 passing nearby, other asphalted roads has not been noted. Is as well base of a stock with rusty diesel locomotives. We come back to Velikie Luki. During our absence on the Baltic party there were new cars.
In the city too is on what to look. For example, lokomotivoremontnihyj factory, almost completely thrown.



There are also strange constructions, not clear appointment.

It not water, is black oil. What it for a construction? What for it?
Inside it was not possible to get, but it was possible to look in a window. Here that inside:
Well and at last, in a city there is an excellent bombproof shelter.





On it city survey has been finished. This report comes to an end also. Thanks for attention and patience =)

Yes, yes, yes, I cannot still go by the first cvetuechkov without immediate zafotografirovihvaniya) Last days off, a slope, nagretihyj the sun. We Look around – and minutes of 3 shootings) Nizhni Novgorod




Well and the first butterfly) till now nepriihchno – in Ekate the first take off krapivnicih…

The river Big Kokshaga:
[Unknown LJ tag] The river Kuzholok. Proceeds in dense forests of KILEMARSKY area, runs into Big Kokshagu:
Woods:
Wood bog:
Reserve “Big Kokshaga”, northern border:
The river Rutka. In the summer 2009 because of almost total absence of rains within one and a half months dried up:
There has passed the Owner:

One day in Verhoture The city in in the north of Sverdlovsk area of Verhoture was once the main fortress on a way to Siberia, a stronghold of Russian state beyond Ural Mountains. There there was a customs, through a city passed the state path on the East. Further Verhoture becomes one of the spiritual centres of Orthodoxy. The city with Verhotursky kremlya, Peter I put on the personal order in honour of the successor of tsarevitch Alexey began. For today it is smallest of remained Kremlej of Russia. Now Verhoture is actually a city-museum with well remained ensemble of architecture of 16-17 centuries. One of the largest temples of Russia the Krestovozdvizhensky cathedral is constructed under the project of Perm architect A.B.Turchevicha. Considerably that in a city accurate complex restoration of constructions is spent. The Kremlin, cathedral, the bridge through the Round river – all it has kept beauty of ancient Russia, and it is possible to name travel to these places road to time. There is still a legend what exactly first bicycle with pedals and a wheel in Verhoture in 1800 has been created. The copy of this bicycle is in a museum of Nizhni Tagil.

Troitsk cathedral





Krestovozdvizhensky cathedral














The bridge through Round
© Ekaterina Vasileva, a photo, 2009.

“The brutal hang-over and the burst spring” became a unique award to it, – this citation from Darrella as is impossible approaches to my condition. Have returned today from wood. I want to tell separate spacibo to the friends Pea_W_T, Onixx, MP_38,03spb both to our friend and the driver the Shred. The navigator from me it is obvious khuevihyj since a card I took that where at all there is no required square. At last, after a pair of clocks of the driving flavoured with jumps on hummocks and my perfect floor-mat (bilberry leaves were bashfully turned off in tubules, and Shreds has declared that feels as on work), we have left on lake Privetnoe.
To the middle of day weather has cleared up also some (bashfully covering sramotu) have got to bathe in invigorating water.
To ladies it has been told-shish kebab or life. Certainly, all have chosen both a shish kebab, and mulled wine.
After a dense supper when the majority has imagined itself bears in hibernation, I poperlasj on a channel.
There feet have taken out me and before a dawn through gold wood


Heather.
And in the evening and there was a rain in the morning.

Bullfight with trousers
As it is sad, the autumn comes…

The Moscow autumn The best time in Moscow is an October. Already there is no summer closeness when +25 it is worse, than +40 in other places. Still is not present winter mozgli and slush. The greens any more do not disturb to photographing, but still is. The cold wind takes away a veil of a smog and does exhausts of cars not such suffocating. Over power stations there is white steam, but it is not enough of it. People hasten for work, yet without having forgotten summer. The cold pleases, instead of irritates. And rains go rather seldom. In general, here simply selection of photos from different areas of Moscow which I removed on the way to old believe objects from last posts. Without everyone koncepta – simply autumn in capital. (The story +36 photos)

On October, 11th has gone on a visit to sokurnice in Agalatovo (Vsevolozhsk area). Since morning all in hoarfrost.


Then – a fog, but we have gone for a walk in wood.
It is damp, my friend has grown in Kazakhstan and complained what to pant. In wood without rubber boots there is nothing.
The bilberry was chilled.
We have reached the tree uprooted by a storm. Wood dense, you go – branches crackle.
Many the big ant hills.
The storm has not pulled out other tree, and has cracked.

I on it have taken a walk.
After walk and a dinner sensation – as if drunk though alcohol did not drink drops.

Krasnoyarsk. At Kachi Walks on the streets adjoining to the river Kache: Markovsky, Kachinsky, Communistic Ady Lebedevoj

Has decided to lay out a few photos of the nature of Kuzminsky park…