My OperaJust an interesting fact.
Sunday, March 8, 2009 11:51:11 PM
After having a little chat with jekav in my previous post I decided to tell you something about my native town, Arkhangelsk. (Of course, you can call it a city, but I like the word "town" better. For me there is some cosiness around this word, something warm. 
And besides, it rather small compared to other cities in Russia. The population is 350,000 people. Almost nothing compared to Moscow's 10 mln!! )
Surely, you can simply read everything on wiki, but that's boring isn't it? And I could retell it, but that's boring isn't it? I could go on repeating this phrase, but that's boring, isn't it?
So I've decided to give you a nice interesting fact in case you visit Russia. Or in case you get a hold of some Russian money: you can find my town on the 500-rouble banknote!
That's Peter the Great on the left, who'd come to Arkhangelsk to build first Russian fleet some 300 years ago, then there's... er.. I guess it's his ship, and in the background you can see a marina. (Don't ask me, I got this word from a dictionary. That's like a railway station, but for ships. )
That's it, folks!
And besides, it rather small compared to other cities in Russia. The population is 350,000 people. Almost nothing compared to Moscow's 10 mln!! )Surely, you can simply read everything on wiki, but that's boring isn't it? And I could retell it, but that's boring isn't it? I could go on repeating this phrase, but that's boring, isn't it?
So I've decided to give you a nice interesting fact in case you visit Russia. Or in case you get a hold of some Russian money: you can find my town on the 500-rouble banknote!
That's Peter the Great on the left, who'd come to Arkhangelsk to build first Russian fleet some 300 years ago, then there's... er.. I guess it's his ship
, and in the background you can see a marina. (Don't ask me, I got this word from a dictionary. That's like a railway station, but for ships. )That's it, folks!
KittyliciousZaphira # Monday, March 9, 2009 5:38:19 PM
I've never seen Russian money before!
Thanks Merlin!
merlin!pintavodki # Monday, March 9, 2009 9:41:24 PM
Jurjenjekav # Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:43:59 PM
If you ask me it's very cold over their!
Peter the Great, I know he visited the netherlands to study shipmaking.
btw a marina is a harbour for yachts... It could be his yacht, but I don't think they had that kind of thing back then.
When I ever visit Russia I will try make a stop in your 'town'.
JonnyJonnsen # Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:49:58 PM
merlin!pintavodki # Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:36:27 PM
Jurjen, well, it sure is rather cold up here, but the winter can also be nice, can't it?
And about the marina.. No, it is a modern building, from the Soviet time, not the Peter's.
Jurjenjekav # Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:54:13 PM
terminal would be a good word I guess, but my English isn't the best...
Winter can be nice indeed, but I'm more a warm weather person myself.
JonnyJonnsen # Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:50:49 PM
I didn't stay in Moscow City, i was in a -for russians- small town near Moscow:))) Though, for myself it is damn big, because my native town has only 4000 inhabitants.
I visited some nice places in Moscow itself and it was great
merlin!pintavodki # Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:45:12 PM
You town has 4000 inhabitants and you think it's small, my town has 350.000 and I think it's small.
Jurjen, a warm weather person? Do you get much warm weather in Netherlands?
JonnyJonnsen # Friday, March 13, 2009 2:08:47 PM
I wonder how you call that
I visited some places and noticed they have special prices for foreigners, so i pretend to be russian, and let my friend buy the tickets, it worked every time except of one time, a very old woman(with a beard
Jurjenjekav # Friday, March 13, 2009 8:27:40 PM
But having different seasons is nice as well I guess. Always having the same weather would be boring too.
If you don't like big cities, you should live in the Netherlands, here is the list of the four largest cities in Holland:
1 Amsterdam 743.600
2 Rotterdam 533.910
3 Den Haag 475.680
4 Utrecht 258.520
But they are all quite close to each other.
merlin!pintavodki # Friday, March 13, 2009 8:49:42 PM
Jekav, thanks, but I'm quite comfortable with my hometown.
Jurjenjekav # Friday, March 13, 2009 9:08:06 PM
http://www.mrpencil.nl/diverse/hollandse.jpg -
facebook.com/crepe.aucitronSojka # Monday, March 23, 2009 4:44:05 PM
and this 500-rouble banknote reminds me of banknotes of 100.000-kupons and even 1.000.000!!!! as far as that money wasn't in use anymore, i used to "go shopping" with them when i was a child... i had the whole bag of old soviet and early-years-of-Ukrainian-independence money
merlin!pintavodki # Monday, March 23, 2009 8:41:14 PM
And the money, yes. That was funny, we used to call a 1.000.000 "limon" and it sounded so "cool".
facebook.com/crepe.aucitronSojka # Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:15:31 PM
i think in the mid 90s we had many similar games and toys..just..as i remember.. Чупа-чупсы, лизуны (НЕЧТО, приклеивающееся ко всему), йо-йо
merlin!pintavodki # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:48:24 PM
facebook.com/crepe.aucitronSojka # Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:55:16 PM