Foto rapportage from me in the Motherland: Russia!

[pappavis]

My first day here in Sint Petersburg, got to make about 350 foto's on one day :mrgreen:

 

A few Mi-8's parked at Pulkovo airport

 

Right next door to my hosting family, this disused tanks-storage area, looks like T-72's?

 

Typical highway and offramp

 

MANY MANy of these ??Tupelov??'s flying overhead to land at Pulkovo.

 

Watch out!! A su-25T parked in one of those potholes :shock:

The roads are in quite a good shape, just getting out on the rural areas is a pothole infested desaster.

 

Railway crossing with extra safety precations, these ramps automatically appears when the booms go down.

 

An "elektritshka" arriving at the Vokzal (station) of Strelna

 

Me at Petergoff, the former royal palace. With a little extra russkaya devouchka :thumbup:

 

The COOOOOOLEST THING: me with real life Operation Flashpoint/ArmA soldiers!!

 

Ural: Food for the Su-25T's Vikhr

 

OMFG!!!! EXACTLY like in the movies :helpsmilie:

 

Some of these ol' Soviet-area Zhikolis still roam the roads. Most russians drives brand new 4x4 SUV's.

 

uuuurrrmmm, public transport. need i say more?

 

ONE of the many delights..

[Ross-impress]

Mooie foto's m8 (nice pictures m8)

Thx for sharing.

 

Ross...

[Ender]

I apologize, but if somebody don't know: the weather is that bad only in st.-petersburg, it is usually much better in the other parts of Russia...

[Vladimir]

Nice fotos. I hope u liked our city:)

2 Ender. Usually the weather is much better at summer, but this one is really strange...

Edited August 18, 2008 by =Vladimir=

[Cosmonaut]

You should have let that soldier finish buttoning up his shirt before you took that pic :lol: ..

 

Nice shots .. thanks for sharing. :thumbup::thumbup:

[sv-rus]

And where bears?

[pappavis]

Marshroutkas parked, waiting for passengers.

[Ender]

infamous "gazelle" jaggernaut vechicle...

[Pilot666]

i understand you. in big russian cities there are not many of them because there live people with mixed nationalities. there are a lot of beautiful russian girls in small towns and villages

[AlexHunter]

Afaik in the old times they used to say that Russian women are the most beautiful in the world. Can you provide more picture proof for that? :music_whistling::D

 

IMHO: Girls from the north of Russia not so are beautiful, as our girls from the south of Russia, from Rostov obl. and Krasnodarskogo edge, a contrast striking :)

 

Here site of our city. Where many photos of our girls, not the beautiful are, but very rarely, for us from all another city surprised, that in town very much many beautiful girls. you look here very much much fotok of different people is from our city http://www.kalitva.ru/_/?vs=foto/look&razdel=7&page=0

[AlexHunter]

Who of those lads is you? ;)

 

No, I here am not present, I already not such young

Here this pilot dilettante, it I :)

 

http://www.kalitva.ru/_/?vs=foto/look&razdel=10&page=153

[jpm1]

nice pics

[Vladimir]

No, I here am not present, I already not such young

Here this pilot dilettante, it I :)

 

http://www.kalitva.ru/_/?vs=foto/look&razdel=10&page=153

On this foto you dont look like yourself in avatar:D