The sudden and prolonged coronavirus epidemic quickly escalated into a pandemic. Epidemic put an end to travel abroad. On another vacation, I went to Crimea again. Sevastopol temporarily remained closed to the tourist visit, so we stopped in Yalta, just like a year ago. This time I chose the apartment as close to the sea as possible. Continue reading →

Russia is a centralized state and, unfortunately, this is primarily expressed about the redistribution of income and wealth, and transport logistics too. You can make flights from Moscow anywhere, unlike Volgograd. Since I live in Moscow, I decided to use this advantages of centralization. I spent the accumulated days of vacation on a trip to St. Petersburg and Kazan. I have never been to Kazan before.

Yalta is a small resort town. The city was founded by the Greeks before the current era, but unfortunately, after the invasion of the Tatars Greek buildings did not survive, as did the Greeks themselves.

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The first twenty years of my life I lived in the city of Volgograd, southern Russia. Most of the Volgograd region is a steppe and semi-desert. Continue reading →

A smell of Russ! Of Russ all breathes there! …

From the poem by A.S. Pushkin “Ruslan & Ludmila”

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In this narrative I collected my photos from all the trips to the glorious city of St. Petersburg. Continue reading →

My childhood dream was to become a captain of a sailing ship, so that there, even now, if the opportunity arose, I would become it. Unfortunately, at least some sailing ship I visited only as an adult. And now, many years later I boarded the real big sailing ship – “Poltava”. Continue reading →

Politics, faith or money most often become the causes of conflicts between people. But it was thanks to the political situation that my trip to the Crimea became possible. Indeed, the Crimea is only a peninsula, and only the events that have happened have made it a real island. Continue reading →